Full coverage: South Asia

31.08.2005 With an aim to popularise rail ticket booking through the Internet, a Parliamentary Committee has asked the Railways to make available more payment options such as cash cards across a well spread out network.

31.08.2005 In a meeting with the Hon’ble President of India, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Motorola demonstrated e-education project at Rashtrapai Bhavan through its wireless broadband solution.

31.08.2005 Dumping of second hand IT devices is in the agenda of the upcoming Indo-EU summit, going to be held on September 7 in New Delhi.

31.08.2005 Over three lakh students of 1,000 government high schools across Karnataka have learnt the basics of computer education under a project called "Mahiti Sindhu."

31.08.2005 A 15 months long “e-Health & Learning” (e-HL) project was deployed in January 2003 by Sustainable Development Networking Programme(SNDP), which was funded by the European Commission under the Asia IT&C programme.

30.08.2005 Launched in January 2005, BIOTIK is an initiative in biodiversity informatics looks at developing two knowledge bases of the tree species of Western Ghats, India and Northern Annamites of Lao PDR.

30.08.2005 Launched in January 2004, OSCAR looks at developing an open source weed identification software for the major weed species of Rice-Wheat crop systems which can be deployed on Simputers. The application will address extension workers, farmers/farmer groups, students in the Indo-Gangetic plains.

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30.08.2005 The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) expects the foundation for the information technology park in Coimbatore to be laid by the year-end.

30.08.2005 In just two months, each of the 12 municipalities, 37 mandals, 705 gram panchayats and 1,200 revenue villages in Ranga Reddy district of Andhra Pradesh will boast of broadband connectivity, with optical fibre cables (OFC) carrying voice, data and video signals at high speeds.

30.08.2005 Eleven young documentary filmmakers – eight women and three men - from eight countries in Asia met for a primary screening of their films on Voluntary Confidential Counselling and Testing (VCCT) for HIV/AIDS in New Delhi last week.

29.08.2005 Indian hospitals are initiating steps on this journey by implementing Hospital Information Systems (HIS). HIS are evolving from integrated order entry systems, administrative systems, and departmental subsystems within a hospital, by extending and integrating into ERP.

29.08.2005 As part of the first ‘outcome budget’ , the government has unveiled its plan to establish 60 community information centres in Jammu & Kashmir by October this year.

29.08.2005 Recommendations from the Dhaka ICT consultation organised by OneWorld South Asia (OWSA), Bangladesh Friendship Education Society (BFES) and Association for Progressive Communication (APC) on Jan 5-7, 2005 in Bangladesh on the national ICT policy issues.

29.08.2005 Dr D.L. Goyal, Director Health Services, has issued strict instructions to the ultrasound centres operating in the district to desist from conducting sex determination tests.

29.08.2005 The ministry of company affairs (MCA) has initiated the process of digitising all Registrar of Companies (RoC) offices in the country and expects the e-governance project to be in place by March-April 2006.

29.08.2005 Videography is being used in colleges of Tamil Nadu to enhance students' skills.
In the personality development programme held on the college premises under the aegis of the Training and Placement Cell recently, the 60-odd participating students were asked to give a two-minute presentation on themselves.

28.08.2005 ‘While ICT can offer significant opportunities for all girls and women, including those in rural areas, their ability to take advantage of these opportunities is contingent upon many things’ says Radha Singh in an interview with Manish Kumar of OneWorld South Asia.

26.08.2005 Four doctors and a technician from Afghanistan are in the south Indian metro of Chennai getting training on telemedicine to enable them to reach out to ailing Afghans in rural and farflung areas. The doctors say that there are no facilities to reach out to those in rural areas or to get in touch with specialists in other countries.

26.08.2005 UNESCO Bangkok's Assessment, Information Systems, Monitoring and Statistics (AIMS) Unit hosted and trained officials from the Nepal Ministry of Education (MoE) as part of the Flash Report Method on conducting annual school census at the AIMS office, UNESCO Bangkok.