Full coverage: Asia and the Pacific

31.07.2006 Greenpeace, a non-governmental organisation working for the conservation of the environment, on Tuesday alleged that the information technology (IT) company, Wipro, had failed to keep its promise to develop a policy to phase out toxins from its products.

31.07.2006 Radio is the most accessible medium to reach the greatest number of population in the rural areas. Supported by ENRAP, the Cordillera Highland Agricultural Resources Management (CHARM) Project implemented a school-on-air program to disseminate among farmers the best lessons learned during the project’s implementation in the provinces of Abra, Benguet and Mountain Province.

28.07.2006 In a bid to establish a communication channel to support all its e-governance initiatives, the State Government of Haryana is planning to deploy a statewide area network that will connect the state head quarter office at Chandigarh to all the district head quarters at the Block/ Sub-Division/ Tehsil/ Sub- Tehsil levels.

24.07.2006 The Forest Survey of India (FSI) has vastly underestimated forest loss from degradation, according to scientists who used software instead of human eyes to interpret satellite images of forest cover.

22.07.2006 NEW YORK, July 22 (OneWorld) - A prominent rights advocacy group has launched a worldwide campaign this week against "big brothers" trying to block information on the Internet.

17.07.2006 Radio content must be made more relevant to its audience to preserve the medium’s market share, told a Pacific media executive an international broadcasting conference in Singapore recently.

17.07.2006 The government will allocate RM3 million to help visually impaired students, mainly to provide access to Information Communication and Technology (ICT) facilities, Education Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein said Sunday.

17.07.2006 The strong trend in the number of new telephone subscribers continued in the month of June with a net addition of about 4.97 million phones - an average daily addition of 1.66 lakh lines.

10.07.2006 Along with the announcement of high-school results these days, college admissions are ‘hot’ too. With the seats in colleges being just a fraction of school enrolment (about 8-10% in India compared to 25-50% in many countries), there is a huge demand-supply mismatch.

10.07.2006 After lagging behind in the Information and Technology gravy train for years, the Bihar government is finally taking steps to catch up with other developed states by equipping all of their 26 ministers with sophisticated laptop computers under the national e-governance plan of the Central government.

06.07.2006 The digital divide has a female face. This is very true as evident from women's underrepresentation and lack of willingness in the sphere of information and communication technologies (ICTs).

05.07.2006

media on wheel

The `eTukTuk', the world's first radio-station and multimedia centre on three wheels, is taking Sri Lanka by storm.

05.07.2006 OneWorld South Asia has published a two-year action research report - Improving Transparency, Efficiency and Effectiveness of Pro Poor Government Services - that shows that information and communication technologies (ICTs) plan an important role in enabling people to have better access to government services.

05.07.2006 The next time you find some strange weed in your field, run to your computer for a solution. As India steps up the use of IT to solve domestic problems, a new solution to identify weeds is taking seed in Pondicherry.

04.07.2006 OneWorld South Asia (OWSA) , has published reports and tool kits on an four-country action research that establish the role of ICTs in enabling people, to have better access to pro-poor government services. http://propoorict.ekduniya.net.