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30.12.2005 The ninth national conference on egovernance will be held at
Le Meridien, Kochi, Keralam from 2 to 4 February 2006.

30.12.2005 The Indian Ocean tsunami of 26 December 2004 was one of the greatest natural disasters; it was also the first internet-mediated natural disaster.

30.12.2005 US based PeerMe Inc on Thursday launched its Internet voice communication systems in India which the company said would be free and unlimited.

30.12.2005 The Reserve Bank of India is focusing on research and analysis of the productivity trends in India on a continuous basis, Y V Reddy, Reserve Bank of India governor, said.

30.12.2005 Taking the world wide web to the rural masses, the Haryana government is setting up 'e-Chaupals' (cybercafes) in 150 villages of Sirsa district. The e-chaupals would initially be set up in villages with populations of 5,000 under the Rashtriya Sam Vikas Yojana (RSVY) for the eighth lakh people that reside in 323 villages of Sirsa district.

29.12.2005 The Cyber Crime Wing (CCW) of the city police is all set to announce the guidelines for internet centres in the wake of e-mail threat to Parliament and US consulates recently.

29.12.2005 A two-day National Colloquium on RTI witnessed the identification of the judiciary as being foremost in effectively implementing the Right to Information Act.

29.12.2005 The South Korean government is encouraging its institutions to move away from their reliance on Windows and Unix and adopt open source software. In a latest development in the country, two state-owned financial institutions planned to launch the country's first Linux-based Internet banking services in December.

29.12.2005 Chairman of Infosys Technologies Limited N.R. Narayana Murthy on Wednesday said corruption has become pervasive in institutions in the country and there is a strong incentive for politicians to keep people ignorant and illiterate.

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28.12.2005 An updated website, extension of online tax collection system for collection of underground drainage charges and facility to pay taxes through credit cards are among the major highlights of the initiatives undertaken by the Tiruchi Corporation in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu to extend e-governance system.

27.12.2005 The Orissa RTI rules will be revised to make them citizen friendly & consistent with the Act, says Nabeen Patnaik, C.M. of Orissa told a delegation of Right to Information Activists led by Mrs. Aruna Roy.

27.12.2005 The 93rd Indian Science Congress being held at APARD, Rajendranagar, in the south Indian city of Hyderabad on January 5, 2006 is hosting a session on
Mission 2007, Every Village a Knowledge Centre.
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27.12.2005 The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Yale University, World Health Organization (WHO), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Cornell University and several leading publishers are in the process of developing an Environmental portal, Online Access to Research in the Environment (OARE). The project will provide the developing world with free or reduced cost access to the scholarly environmental

27.12.2005 UNEP, the Global Impact and the UNDP is to jointly organize “The Environmentally Sound Technology Showcase at the Global Ministerial Environment Forum” at Dubai from 5th -8th February, 2006 to encourage the development and diffusion of environmentally friendly technologies.

27.12.2005 While powerful illegal internet telephony operators keep on draining out hundreds of crores taka each year, the government is delaying the process of awarding licence for VoIP operation on various pretexts ignoring a fresh recommendation of Bangladesh Telecom Regulatory Authority (BTRC).

27.12.2005 The number of mobile subscribers in Bangladesh has increased from 4.0 million to 10.02 million registering a growth of nearly 150 per cent during the last one year after the announcement of new discount packages by the telecom operators.

26.12.2005 In this paper, the author shows social, cultural, political and economic diversity of rural India and the need for appropriating the ICT interventions according to such diversifications.

26.12.2005 Save the manuscripts with digital preservation techniques for future generation. Manuscripts are the treasure of our old great heritage. We should use the modern information technology to save manuscripts and other rare materials. This is the outcome of seminar on “Digital preservation of Manuscripts and Rare Materials” held on 24th Dec. 2005 at Central Library, Banaras Hindu University, India.

26.12.2005 The Indian bureaucracy is on the brink of a revolution with the Right to Information (RTI) Act ready to usher in transparent governance, says the country's first Chief Information Commissioner Wajahat Habibullah.