Full coverage: Asia and the Pacific

29.06.2005 Sonia Gandhi has launched the latest stage of the Indian government's large-scale open source initiative.

29.06.2005 One of the world’s largest economies, India has made enormous strides in its economic and social development in the past two decades.

29.06.2005 Internet censorship in Iran is amongst the most restrictive and sophisticated in the world, a technical study has revealed. And much of the filtering technology in use was developed by western companies.

29.06.2005 The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation has developed DEV INFO INDIA, a database for the collection, compilation and transmission of data on selected social indicators.

29.06.2005 With a vision to provide management and integration of global information on genetic resources and crop improvement for any crop, the International Crop Information system (ICIS) initiative was started.

29.06.2005 Broadcasting is crucial to development said the participants of the Asia Media Summit (AMS) that the Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development (AIBD) in collaboration with partners and with support from UNESCO organized in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

28.06.2005 Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has recommended 100 per cent foreign ownership in satellite radio services without any entry and licence fee.

28.06.2005 E-governance centres in all subdivisions of the Kangra district will soon be made functional

27.06.2005 Dowry is the most commonly discussed social issue amongst women in the Nabanna network , a UNESCO supported initiative that has been working with local women in India to identify information needs and appropriate materials

27.06.2005 With some 400 floppies and 300 compact discs prepared by students as part of their project, the Institute of Community Medicine in Madras Medical College has enough data to run its web site, www.icm.tn.gov.in.

27.06.2005 The telephony industry has two major players—GSM and CDMA —who are always ready to take to the field like Mohan Baghan and East Bengal are to the soccer on any issue.

27.06.2005 Madrassas have all along remained the preserve of men but this one has broken new ground.

27.06.2005 Noted Indian scientist Prof. MS Swaminathan in this opinion piece for Chennai-based newspaper The Hindu says that among the serious problems confronting them, farmers see access to water, credit, technology, and market as the most important.

27.06.2005 V. Sankara Narayanan, the Director of Tamil Virtual University, has called for
"localisation" in e-governance and services, and provisioning of information
in local language.

27.06.2005 The recent meeting on technology options for disatser management was held in Bangkok from 22 to 24 June, 2005 under the auspieces of UNESCAP.

26.06.2005 The Global Forum event was not only the first event for GeSCI to
co-host but it also signified the next stage in GeSCI's work in two of our priority countries.

24.06.2005 Following practical exposure within workshop settings, to procedures for obtaining information from government such as exist under the "Freedom of Information Rules, 2004", Pakistani journalists from the provinces have reportedly sent dozens of requests for information to government departments concerned.

24.06.2005 Sri Lanka has opened e-Government Centre of Excellence.This centre is a result of a public private partnership between the Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA), the Sri Lanka Institute of Development Administration, and Millennium Information Technologies.

24.06.2005 The recent meeting of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO foresees commissioning the tsunami warning system for the Indian ocean region by July next year.

24.06.2005 Red Hat Scholarships is the first ever open source program of its kind in the world designed to encourage young talent and spread the open source philosophy that has created world class software like Linux, Apache and many other programs.