Full coverage: South Asia

25.06.2004 China is the worst violator of Internet freedom, says a report by Reporters Sans Frontieres, which also finds that Internet journalists in South Asia are vulnerable to frequent attacks because they lack the legal protection traditional media enjoys.

25.06.2004 The National Institute of Smart Government (NISG) is organising a workshop, on July 8-9, 2004, at Hyderabad, India, to bring together all the stakeholders in the ICT for Development (ICTD) project.

24.06.2004 Technology bridged a decade's old divide this week when separated families across the Indian and Pakistani sides of Kashmir interacted through a web cast, amid tears, laughter and hopes of peaceful tomorrows.

24.06.2004 Technology bridged a decades old divide this week when separated families across the Indian and Pakistani sides of Kashmir interacted through a web cast, amid tears, laughter and hopes of peaceful tomorrows.

23.06.2004 Digital mapping of natural resources in West Bengal, India, is being carried out as a project of Natural Resources data Management System. The project will help in planning of sustainable natural resource management in this locale.

18.06.2004 Nearly 100 participants attended a seminar on developing an ICT strategy for small businesses in Bangladesh, organised by the Commonwealth Secretariat.

16.06.2004 A UNESCO project is making available ICT education to girls and women from a slum in New Delhi.

15.06.2004 The UNDP is helping the Bhutan government connect remote areas with ICTs by facilitating access to public access points to enable people get the latest government information.

14.06.2004 The proceedings of the fourth annual Baramati Initiative "Connected for Development: Information Kiosks and Sustainability" is now available online.

14.06.2004 Indian ICT organisation, Digital Partners, has announced the winners of its 2004 Digital Opportunity Competition, which aims to stimulate creative uses of technology among school children in India.

14.06.2004 The Asian Development Bank (ADB) plans to boost co-operation between Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal over connectivity, especially setting up of community information centres, capacity building and content.

14.06.2004 The Bhutanese government has released the recommendations of a workshop on ICT policy and strategy. The recommendations fall within five broad categories - content, infrastructure, human development, enterprise and policy.

11.06.2004 An Indian NGO promoting the use of ICTs for development requires volunteers to further its mission.

10.06.2004 The Health Information Systems Programme in Andhra Pradesh, India, makes innovative uses of ICT, especially of open source software to deliver health knowledge to medical professionals. A finalist of this year's Stockholm Challenge Award , this project is supported by students from different parts of the world.

10.06.2004 Yak farmers in remote regions in Nepal are using wifi to keep in touch with their families and also to sell livestock and exchange veterinary tips.

01.06.2004 Smart cards and fingerprints in place of conventional personal identification numbers and magnetic cards will soon be used by people in rural India. The idea is to enable villagers to carry out electronic cash transactions using automatic teller machine (ATM) called Gramteller. A leading Indian bank will set up these machines in information kiosks all over the country.

01.06.2004 A team of developers has begun work on building a localized operating system in Gujarati language, spoken by more than 5.5 millions in India. The developers have launched their project site called "Utkarsh" which means progress.