Full coverage: Western Europe

31.10.2007 Spain's new electronic ID cards will reach 30 million citizens soon. The Interior Ministry has already distributed 1.2 million chip-based cards and expects to issue at least 800,000 more by the end of the year.

22.10.2007 Center for Global Development -nimisen aivoriihen tutkimuksen mukaan Ranska on innokkaimmin tukemassa informaatioteknologiaa kehitysyhteistyössä. Maiden sijoitukseen vaikutti myös asenne immateriaalioikeuksista luopumiseen, mikä sijoitti Yhdysvallat vasta sijalle 14.

08.02.2007 Following the first-ever gathering of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), held in Athens from 30 October to 2 November 2006, a special stock-taking session will take place next Tuesday, 13 February, at Geneva’s Palais des Nations where the participants will assess the achievements of the inaugural meeting and pave the way forward.

24.02.2006 Residents of the Netherlands, armed with a tax break for computer purchases and some of Europe's lowest broadband fees, lead the world in the use of personal computers and the Internet, according to a study by the Pew Charitable Trusts released Tuesday.

08.02.2006 The company uses a system to block sites carrying indecent images of children, which has been thwarting 35,000 hits a day for four months.

06.02.2006 Libraries have warned that the rise of digital publishing may make it harder or even impossible to access items in their collections in the future.

30.01.2006 The Netherlands British Chamber of Commerce is organising a two day fact finding mission in February for British firms who want to find out more about selling into the fast-growing Dutch health ICT market.

27.01.2006 Many students applying to university in UK to study medicine or dentistry will be required to undergo a 90-minute computer aptitude test as part of their course application. The UKCAT (UK Clinical Aptitude Test) will feature verbal reasoning, numerical reasoning, abstract reasoning and problem solving questions; it will not cover academic subjects

23.12.2005 This "Topic"-section gives an overview of the topic of "ICT in class" in the context of international development cooperation. The geographical focus is currently being placed on the African continent.

22.12.2005 The International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED) is organising an International Conference on Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications ~EuroIMSA 2006~ from February 13-15, 2006
at Innsbruck, Austria.

20.12.2005 The SDC has redesigned its Internet platform with the aim of presenting its activities more clearly and giving visitors easy access to the vast range of information on the site.

20.12.2005 THE Netherlands government recently provided 4m Euros (about sh8b) to four public universities for training women in Information and communication Technology (ICT), the Netherlands ambassador has said.

02.12.2005 12 young television producers from Francophone Africa met on 22-27 November 2005 in Bordeaux, France to edit and finalise their short TV documentaries depicting views and opinion about HIV and AIDS from their respective countries of origin.

22.11.2005 A two-week workshop on HIV/AIDS for young television producers was concluded in Accra on Friday,18 November, with a call to combat stigma and discrimination against people living with and affected by HIV and AIDS.

27.10.2005 This theme shall serve as an objective for a seminar uniting a group of experts of the two rivers of the Mediterranean, through French Commission for UNESCO, which is to be held on 27 and 28 October 2005 in Paris.

24.10.2005 Unanimous support to UNESCO’s active involvement in the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) and its focus on knowledge societies was given by the Organisation's General Conference at its 33rd Session yesterday in Paris.

11.10.2005 Elsevier today announced a landmark partnership between Scirus, its free science-specific search engine, and the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) to add the extensive collection of theses and dissertations of its member institutes to Scirus.

11.10.2005 UNESCO’s Member States will be discussing the organisation’s future activities related to communication and information including UNESCO’s contribution to the World Summit on the Information Society.

22.09.2005 The Netherlands is creating a unified citizen database to centralise the management of citizen health and welfare issues.
The new database of case histories will be able to track citizens from birth to death.

20.09.2005 The final preparatory meeting for the forthcoming Tunis Phase of the World Summit on the Information Society opens today at the Palais de Nations in Geneva with UNESCO observers participating throughout the two week event.