Full coverage: Southern 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.

03.07.2007 Roomassa järjestetään ensimmäinen kansainvälinen konferenssi Web 2.0 teknologioiden hyödyntämisestä Etelän kehityksessä. Web2forDev 2007 tutkii kuinka uudet verkkoteknologiat voivat tehostaa verkottumista, yhteistyötä ja informaation jakamista syrjäisten kylien kehityksessä ja luonnonvarojen hoitamisessa.

28.09.2006 Maltese organizations will be able to participate in the European Information and Communication Technologies Prize (EICT Prize), which is among the most distinguished awards for innovative products and services that represent the best of European innovation in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT).

28.06.2006 The Spanish government announced in a statement on Monday that it will donate 935 million euros (about 1.2 billion U.S. dollars) for the United Nations Millennium Development Goals in 2006, 78 percent higher more than that in 2004.

25.04.2006 Open Source Simple Computer for Agriculture in Rural Areas (OSCAR) is a collaborative effort, initiated by IFP (French Institute of Pondicherry) with Rice-Wheat Consortium for Indo-Gangetic Plains, India, French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD), and Communication and Innovation Studies of Wageningen University, The Netherlands as partners in action.

01.02.2006 According to the current Innovations Minister Stanca, ICT developments and innovation are a top priority for both standing and future governments. Stanca highlighted aims to engender further sector synergies and to define prospective applications, with an emphasis on broadband technology.

10.01.2006 The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics is organizing a Workshop on "Optimization Technologies for Low-Bandwidth Networks", to be held in Trieste, Italy, from the 9th to the 20th October 2006.

25.10.2005 "Promoting Public Services in the Media: Human Rights, Tolerance, Multilingualism and the Fight against Discrimination" is the subject of a UNESCO sponsored conference at which media experts meet this week in Lisbon, Portugal.

22.09.2005 The first World Congress on Communication for Development is being organised by the Government of Italy, the World Bank's Development Communication Division, in collaboration with FAO and the Communication Initiative in March 2006 in Rome, Italy.

25.08.2005 The UN Inter-Agency Round Table on Communication for Development has published the proceedings of its meeting in Rome, Italy, from 6-9 September 2004.

13.08.2005 This article aims to explain the reasons behind the success of a cultural resource on the internet. It is not always the number of hits that determines this success, instead they need to be used by specialist groups and in the context of cultural dissemination, education and research.

01.08.2005 An innovative e-learning platform to provide individual students with unique educational experiences tailored closely to their personal profiles, interests and needs, has been developed enabling the key goals of personalisation and adaptability to be met.

07.07.2005 Beginning with a very brief case study of a free e-learning for development project, the Campus for Peace of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, this paper reflects on e-learning can solve most of the problems related to corporate training, education for development and e-advocacy for stakeholders.

20.06.2005 China has entered into a dialogue with Italy to overhaul the Asian country's administrative e-infrastructure.

14.06.2005 The Commonwealth Foundation is organising an online consultation open to governments, civil society organisations and people across the Commonwealth, in preparation for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) and Commonwealth People's Forum (CPF) to be held in Malta in November 2005.

06.04.2005 MTV Italy's ‘No Excuse 2015’ Campaign calls upon Italian youth to urge their government to keep its promises on the Millennium Development Goals.

24.11.2004 Malta-based DiploFoundation will represent the Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP) in the UN Working Group on Internet Governance. GKP is a coalition of organisations involved in ICT for development.

01.09.2004 The government of Malta has announced its national ICT strategy, aiming to use ICTs in improving the quality of life of people over the next three years.

29.06.2004 Firenze Tecnologia sostiene la "Free Software Foundation Europe" (FSFE) per creare un ponte di collegamento dal globale al locale e attivare in Toscana nuove esperienze di trasferimento dal software proprietario al software libero. L'obiettivo, infatti, è duplice: da un lato promuovere quest'ultimo attraverso le "migrazioni trasversali", incrementando cioè il passaggio da software proprietario a libero nella Pubblica Amministrazione e nelle PMI: dall'altro coordinare progetti europei.

08.05.2004 La Free Software Foundation Europe invita nei giorni 10-17 maggio a partecipare ad azioni di protesta contro la normativa, in procinto di votazione al Parlamento Europeo, che intende introdurre brevetti per i software; l'Associazione Software Libero presenta emendamenti al Decreto Urbani per salvaguardare il software libero. E mentre inizia a Roma il Forum della Pubblica Amministrazione (Forum PA), le associazioni per il software libero ribadiscono che la Direttiva del ministro Stanca "delude le aspettative" e fa dipendere la scelta del software negli enti pubblici da "criteri puramente economicistici".