Full coverage: South East Asia

26.10.2005 APDIP and the UNDP Asia-Pacific Gender Mainstreaming Programme will be hosting a one-day workshop titled “Mapping Gender in the Information Society: From Reality to Discourse”. The event will be held on 31 October 2005 at the Menam Riverside Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand.

26.10.2005 Research on information literacy in China and Indonesia started in September 2005, conducted by the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China (ISTIC) with funding from UNESCO’s Information for All Programme (IFAP).

24.10.2005 As part of the UNESCO “Strengthening ICT in Schools and SchoolNet in ASEAN Setting” project, a training session was recently provided for teachers which aimed to assist them in learning to facilitate telecollaboration (sharing knowledge through the internet) with their students, and how this enhances teaching and learning.

17.10.2005 The Youth Social Enterprise Initiative (YSEI) is a programme focused on providing support to young social entrepreneurs to develop innovative solutions to social problems. It has given a call to young people (less than 30 years) in Bangladesh, India, Malaysia, Philippines and Sri Lanka to apply for fellowships to solve environmental, health and social problems before October 31, 2005.

14.10.2005 The main prize of the UNESCO Digital Arts Award 2005 - “City and Creative Media” goes to Indian artist Ashok Sukumaran for his “poetic yet pragmatic” project SWITCH.

13.10.2005 In developing country contexts, handheld computer applications are starting to show their benefits across development sectors. Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) and other types of handheld computers offer considerable advantages over desktops or even laptops. Health and microfinance have been particularly keen to test handheld applications.

06.10.2005 Malaysia will launch a digital TV (DTV) trial program to pave the way for the national digitalisation drive, Malaysian Deputy Minister of Information Lim Siang Chai said .

04.10.2005 The e-choupal project of ITC Ltd has won the 'IT excellence award 2005' instituted by the 'MIS Asia' magazine in the category of 'Best business enabler'. The award was announced in Singapore at the 'MIS Asia IT Summit'.

03.10.2005 IBM’s Academic Initiative and Centre for Advanced Studies will help equip 3500 students per year with IT skills to become a more competitive workforce.