Thursday | 20 Jun 2013
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23-03-2013 “Women’s access to ICTs and particularly broadband must be made a key pillar of the post-2015 global development agenda,” said Dr Hamadoun I. Touré, ITU Secretary-General and co-Vice Chair of the Commission.
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21-03-2013 Communication tools like radio can be used for empowering women and enhancing the process of development, said speakers at a community radio consultation in Ahmedabad.
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19-03-2013 Smart Woman is a smartphone-based platform for gender empowerment by harnessing global ‘mobile miracle’.
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15-03-2013 An accessible website is often the easiest way to do business with people with disabilities – for example, those who find it difficult to get to a physical store or cannot read printed material.
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13-03-2013 OneWorld Foundation India has come up with a personalised android app that will help users send distress messages to a select group of friends and the social media informing them of their exact location.
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22-02-2013 The researchers say their findings could be applicable in Africa and other places that lack a reliable network of rain gauges.
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20-02-2013 The fiber optic services would also get expanded in the remotest provinces of Afghanistan, said Afghanistan’s Minister of Communication and Information Technology.
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19-02-2013 Mobile phones along with local knowledge and field support, can help to ensure the effective diagnosis and treatment of malaria in remote rural areas, according to a study in Bangladesh.
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13-02-2013 Operators of various community radio stations in India said that collating relevant content for their programmes is a challenge they face every day.
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12-02-2013 At a ministerial session at the South Asia Ministerial Forum, all ministers from South Asian countries agreed that it takes effective policies to effectively bring ICTs into play in education.
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» Online climate conference
Online,  November 5, 2012.
» Open Knowledge Festival 2012
Helsinki, Finland,  September 17,2012.
» ITU Green Standards Week
39, quai du Président Roosevelt 92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux, France,  September 17

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