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28.02.2006 The Government will soon launch the National e-Governance Plan. Twenty five projects in mission mode will be launched in 2006-07.

28.02.2006 The ICT Agency of Sri Lanka - ICTA - is seeking interns for the period June - September 2006 to participate in a research effort geared at facilitating the capturing of knowledge as part of its management information program and to provide research material to the support the programs and projects of ICTA .

28.02.2006 The National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) is part of the National Common Minimum Programme for bringing information and government services to the doorstep of the citizens.

28.02.2006 Bangalore University Library in the Southern State of Karnataka in India, on Monday gained the distinction of becaming the first university e-library in the State digitising details of its collection of over 3.6 lakh books and providing e-access to general reference material.

28.02.2006 "Education in Information Communication Technology is very important to make students competent and efficient so that they can cope with the challenging world in the new millennium", says the Bangladesh President.

28.02.2006 The University of Southern Mindanao (USM) and the University of Southeastern Philippines (USEP) are planning to conduct technology-based agriculture training for teachers through specially equipped buses.

28.02.2006 A foolproof tsunami early warning system free from false alarms would be operational by September 2007, says P.S. Goel, Secretary, Department of Ocean Development (DOD), Government of India.

27.02.2006 Managing risks with the aid of information technology will help organisations deliver on corporate governance, says Sunil R Chandiramani, Partner-National Director Risk & Business Solutions Ernst & Young India.

27.02.2006 Complimenting the government and telecom players for a five-fold increase in phone penetration in last six years in tandem with significant cut in tariff, the Economic Survey on Monday called for further intensifying the efforts, saying the present growth was not enough to match the vast potential.

26.02.2006 The actual experience shows that the IT revolution can benefit rural areas too. Well known examples in India are the e-choupals of ITC, the Bhoomi land records programme of the Karnataka government, and the e-governance initiatives of many state governments. All these have greatly benefited farmers and other rural folk. Note that all these initiatives are based on computers. I believe that the cell phone, not the computer, will be the real bridge across the digital divide.

26.02.2006 Education is an engine for the growth and progress of any society. It not only imparts knowledge and skills, and inculcates values, but is also responsible for building human capital which breeds, drives and sets technological innovation and economic growth.

26.02.2006 Educomp Solutions Ltd launched smart class programme .These digital classrooms are controlled by a knowledge centre set up in the school premises, which would serve as a repository of content. With a storage capacity of almost 106 gbs, the server will route the desired content to the respective classrooms through a campus-wide cable network. The teachers can use digital resources like graphics, animations, 3-D images and video clips extensively.

25.02.2006 We know how fishermen in Kerala had benefited greatly from cell phones, which enabled them to auction their catch while still at sea, and avoided tragedies where they might land their catch at a shore point where there were few buyers, leading to an unsold catch that rotted in the Kerala sun. There is more interesting story how cell phones enabled landless labourers to find out where daily jobs were available and go to those villages, instead of waiting in vain in the wrong villages.

25.02.2006 The efficacy of the system of providing information under the Right to Information Act depended much on public awareness on the legislation.

24.02.2006 Homebound and disadvantaged women will be the next to benefit from the eHomemakers Network, which harnesses the power of the Internet to provide women with the business skills and technical training to become economically independent.

24.02.2006 "Welcome to Radio Raghav FM Mansoorpur 1 - the one stop entertainment solution for all...," chirps the attractive voice of a radio jockey. A swank new FM channel in New Delhi or Mumbai? No, the innovation of an impoverished Bihar villager that has got people hooked. The radio station, beaming from Mansoorpur village in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district, has been giving music, local news and views for the last three years. For hundreds in and around the area it is 'the' station to tune into rather than national stations.

24.02.2006 Intel, the world's largest semiconductor company, is planning to build the first information technology education center in the volatile Gaza Strip.

23.02.2006 The Ministry of Company Affairs in India formally launched MCA-21 early this week.The ministry claims it to be India's largest e-government programme.

23.02.2006 Google, the US-based Internet giant, has once again landed in a controversy in China, with the government on Wednesday saying it has completed a probe into charges that the company operated in the country without proper licence.

23.02.2006 Have you ever heard of a FM station launched with just Rs 50? Well, there's one running at Muzaffarpur in Bihar. Though the owner, Raghav Mahto, earns little money from it, his station is growing in popularity.