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29.05.2007 The Indian government will invest INR 23,000 million to promote e-Governance in rural areas. The National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) will cyber link even the remotest villages through one lakh Internet Common Service Centres (CSCs) spread across the country.

28.05.2007 Orissa has initiated e-Pragati, a project that would connect even the remotest Anganwadi workers in the state and publish information on their work profiles and children under their care. The venture will complement the existing e-Shishu plan that cyber connects lakhs of children in state.

28.05.2007 India's Information and Technology Department will provide computer training to children belonging to socially deprived and minority groups. The first initiative has been taken by the city of Chandigarh in association with United Progressive Muslim Front to teach a basic course to the students of Manimajra Madarsa.

28.05.2007 India's Information and Technology Department will provide computer training to children belonging to socially deprived and minority groups. The first initiative has been taken by the city of Chandigarh in association with United Progressive Muslim Front to teach a basic course to the students of Manimajra Madarsa.

24.05.2007 Around 400 common service centres will be set up next year in Manipur, India's northeastern state. The CSCs will provide e-government services to people living in villages.

18.05.2007 Kannurin asukkaat Intian Keralan osavaltiossa voivat kohta ostaa lehmän, löytää työpaikan ja etsiä tietoa muun muassa terveys-, maanviljelys- ja lakiasioista Internetin välityksellä. UNESCOn tuella paikallisille asukkaille tuotetaan webbiyhteisöjä heidän omalla kielellään, malayalamaksi. Projekti on saanut tulevien loppukäyttäjien kannatuksen tuekseen.

18.05.2007 E-Choupal is a unique internet service that has been made available at the doorstep of farmers in India. Introduced by the retail sector, e-Choupal provides farmers with agricultural information through ICTs. Through the e-Choupal initiative, ITC has increased its competitiveness and empowered farmers through access to technology and the Internet.

18.05.2007 E-Choupal is a unique internet service that has been made available at the doorstep of farmers in India. Introduced by the retail sector, e-Choupal provides farmers with agricultural information through ICTs. Through the e-Choupal initiative, ITC has increased its competitiveness and empowered farmers through access to technology and the Internet.

17.05.2007 Indian radio broadcaster All India Radio (AIR) is broadcasting everyday a programme on women health issues from its 14 stations in collaboration with the Madhya Pradesh government, UNICEF and the Department of International Development (DFID).

11.05.2007 Delhi based Centre for Science, Development and Media Studies (CSDMS) will host India’s largest – and only one of its kind – ICT for Development forum on 31 July - 03 August at New Delhi. eINDIA 2007 will be a platform to share creative ideas and processes and connect practitioners in the use of ICT4D. Its seven seminal conferences will focus on India’s digital divide and explore opportunities for growth potential.

11.05.2007 Villages in Kerala will soon find a place in the cyber world through a state government project, Akshaya, that provides custom-made web portals for all communities in their local language (Malayalam). Supported by UNESCO, the initiative aims to provide computer literacy to the people and implement the project with their participation.

10.05.2007 Panos South Asia (PSA) is organising a 5-day South Asian regional 'Online Radio Broadcasting Training Workshop' for media and other communication practitioners, from 19-23 June 2007 at its Media Centre in Kathmandu, Nepal. The workshop aims to leverage the benefits that internet offers to radio and the ways of incorporating it into existing media strategies.

09.05.2007 Bharti Tele-Ventures, India’s leading telecom company, is planning to widen its coverage in the southern state of Karnataka, India. Airtel will reach 20,000 towns and villages in 2007-08, Bharti says.

07.05.2007 GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) phones were launched by Nokia in Delhi India. This move was inspired by efforts of the Indian government and mobile service operators to bring low-cost mobile telephony to the grassroots and unreached, where users may not be able to afford a personal phone. In many villages, local entrepreneurs have already emerged to offer this service.

03.05.2007 After the south Indian state of Kerala, it's now the turn of West Bengal in the east. Women from the Municipality of Howrah have proceeded to set up a group, named Prakash (Bengali for Expression) for ICT-based enterprise.