Full coverage: South Asia

31.05.2005 The University Grants Commission (UGC) of India is inviting public comments to its draft consultation paper “Electronic Thesis Online (India) UGC (Submission of Metadata and Full-text of Doctoral Theses in Electronic Format) Regulations, 2005”.

31.05.2005 Information and Communication Technology (ICT) can be the perfect vehicle through which poverty alleviation and improvements of the socio-economic structure can be easily accomplished," said Science and ICT Minister Moyeen Khan.

31.05.2005 The Second Annual Meeting of National Alliance on Mission 2007, ‘Every Village a Knowledge Partner,’ is scheduled for July 12 and 13, 2005 in New Delhi. For details of the event, contact Mission 2007 Secretariat, One World South Asia, or write to geeta.sharma@oneworld.net

31.05.2005 The National Alliance on ICTs for Basic Human Needs is the nodal agency for Mission 2007 and has released its report Steps Forward on how to take ICTs to all Indian villages for empowering the people and bringing about development in the villages.

30.05.2005 Delhi Police chief Dr K K Paul and Prasar Bharati CEO K S Sarma today inaugurated an audio studio in the OneWorld South Asia (OWSA) office that will provide free facilities to NGOs and local communities to produce their programmes on development-related issues.

30.05.2005 Despite being a relatively new phenomenon, information and communication technology (ICT) is making its way into the social, cultural, economic, political and governance aspects of Bhutanese society according to the department of information.

30.05.2005 More than 250 scribes, mainly radio journlists, went on to streets to protest against the royal crackdown of a community radio programme production centre.

30.05.2005 In Lakhimpur Khare, a small village in the heart of Uttar Pradesh, a resident enquired about the prices of LG washing machines and TVs displayed on a website.

30.05.2005 C-DOT's latest partnership with the French telecom giant Alcatel is aiming towards reaping the seeds of innovation to revolutionise India's rural telephony through setting up a state-of-the-art telecom R&D centre.

27.05.2005 After long discussions for over the last few years the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) member countries, except for India, endorsed the idea of establishing a flood information network during a two-day meeting held in Thimphu recently.

27.05.2005 The e-Motoring project of Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA) will build a comprehensive ICT solution to provide computersied citizen services being provided by DMT and the Provincial Department of Motor Traffic (PDMT).

27.05.2005 Though Indian government has passed the Right to Information Bill long back, it is yet to to publish the legislation for the public.

26.05.2005 New Delhi based development organisation Datamation Foundation will host the “Indian Gender Consultations: Road to Tunis” in New Delhi on August 24-25-26th, 2005.

26.05.2005 After long discussions for over the last few years the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) member countries, except for India, endorsed the idea of establishing a flood information network during a two-day meeting held in Thimphu recently.

26.05.2005 Sify Ltd, a leading internet, network and e-commerce services provider, announced the launch of its broadband content website 'www.SifyMax.com.'

25.05.2005 Commissioner of Police of Mumbai recently announced that maximum time period for processing any application seeking information is 15 days.

25.05.2005 India’s environment and wildlife film festival, Vatavaran 2005 will showcase original documentaries produced by aspiring and brilliant environment and wildlife filmmakers.

24.05.2005 Ekgaon technologies and CEFI are holding a training programme on "ICTs for Communities: Learning Workshop Series" aims at making ICTs to work for communities by enabling development processes. The workshop "MIS for Community Based Financial Institutions: Innovations & Experiences" is part of 'Learning Workshop Series I, 2005' and attempts to enable learning and experiences of practitioners. The workshop invites MFIs, NGOs, other stakeholders such as banks, Government Agencies, development agencies, micro finance professionals etc.

24.05.2005 Ekgaon technologies and CEFI are holding a training programme on "ICTs for Communities: Learning Workshop Series" aims at making ICTs to work for communities by enabling development processes. The workshop "MIS for Community Based Financial Institutions: Innovations & Experiences" is part of 'Learning Workshop Series I, 2005' and attempts to enable learning and experiences of practitioners. The workshop invites MFIs, NGOs, other stakeholders such as banks, Government Agencies, development agencies, micro finance professionals etc.

20.05.2005 Grassroots Caucus is an initiative of OneWorld to moblise people at the grassroots to play a key role in shaping up the WSIS agenda and the final outcome thereof.