Full Coverage: Civil Society

07/31/2007 The fast-growing GeoWeb is helping people across the world by providing simple tools that allow people to draw on digital maps and annotate them with text, images, sound and videos, literally making anyone a mapmaker on the web.

07/27/2007 E’ stata inaugurata oggi, 27 luglio a Montevideo, con la partecipazione della Viceministra per la cooperazione internazionale italiana Patrizia Sentinelli, la prima Bottega del commercio equo e economia solidale in Uruguay. Il progetto denominato “Ecosol” prevede una serie di iniziative di interscambio con le nascenti esperienze di reti di “Altraeconomia” uruguayane, favorendo la creazione di spazi di commercializzazione di prodotti dell’economia solidale nell’area del Mercosur. Il progetto, infatti, ha avuto anche il sostegno della Regione Lazio Assessorato all’Ambiente e Cooperazione tra i Popoli ed è stato coordinato dall’Associazione Reorient assieme a Formin e Terre Madri.

07/27/2007 BANGKOK, Jul 27 (IPS) - Dr. Weng Tojirakan was in a defiant mood the morning after he was detained by the police at the Criminal Court in the Thai capital. "This happened because of the tyranny in our country," the 56-year-old medical doctor said in an interview Friday.

07/27/2007 Director of Health and Human Services Industry, Microsoft Asia Pacific Gabe Rijpma tells the ehealth team about Microsoft's investments to NGOs and allocation for healthcare IT. The interview also explores Gabe's candid views about India's e-healthcare scenario.

07/27/2007 Citizen smart cards are a new revolution that provide a unique citizen number which is centralized in a national register of Indian citizens.It can bring the benefits of e-governance as the use of data warehousing and data mining could also help the government monitor its welfare schemes effectively.

07/27/2007 The Caribbean Internet Radio Portal (CIRP) and UNESCO in association with Youth Vibes Radio has launched its new internet radio station which is being currently tested but is already providing audio to millions of listeners around the world.

07/27/2007 Pengacara Newmont, Luhut Pangaribuan, memerah mukanya. Hal ini terjadi saat saksi fakta warga Buyat mengenalinya sebagai pembela Hak Asasi Manusia (HAM) sebelum berbalik membela korporasi raksasa asal Amerika Serikat, Newmont.

07/26/2007 Nel 2006 i consumatori di tutto il mondo hanno speso 1,6 miliardi di euro per l’acquisto di prodotti a marchio Fairtrade: lo ripotta FLO, il coordinamento internazionale dei marchi di garanzia del commercio equo e solidale. L’aumento del 41% rispetto all’anno precedente ha portato dei vantaggi ad oltre un milione e quattrocentomila produttori e lavoratori del sud del mondo. Nel nostro paese Fairtrade TransFair Italia certifica i prodotti di 69 aziende licenziatarie presenti in 4500 punti vendita della piccola, media e grande distribuzione e 55 gruppi di produttori, con un fatturato al consumo stimato di 35 milioni di euro.

07/26/2007 The Community Radio movement in Bangladesh is likely to get a fillip after a high level meeting was organized by the Ministry of
Information to find out ways to launch community radio on a pilot
basis.

07/26/2007 WiMAX India 4th International Conference is going to be held on August 24, 2007 in New Delhi, India. The conference in its fourth year will provide a platform for business users and wireless industry suppliers to meet and focus on Innovations' in Wireless Communications.

07/26/2007 India currently produces 150,000 tons of e-waste a year but has been slow to regulate disposal with no proper guidelines and law. Delhi itself has 10,000 people who search for gold, copper, palladium, or anything else in the e-waste to reap profit from it even though it is a hazardous task.

07/25/2007 UNESCO is organising an International Conference and Exhibition on Knowledge Parks in Muscat, Oman from September 01-03 2007. The objective of the conference is to review ICT-based knowledge parks in developed countries and how this idea can be implemented successfully in developing countries.

07/25/2007 The staid rituals of US presidential debates met the hurly-burly of the Internet on Monday night, in an event organised by YouTube and CNN, that saw candidates fielding questions which young Americans had uploaded to the video-sharing website.

07/25/2007 The International Journalists' Network (IJNet) is an online service for journalists and is the world's premier resource for the media assistance community. IJNet has opened up a discussion forum for the people to add their comments on 'Online Media: Will more voices be heard?'

07/25/2007 YK:n järjestöjen, yliopistojen ja tieteellisten julkaisijoiden yhteistyön tuloksena kehittyvien maiden tutkijat saavat vapaan pääsyn tiedejulkaisuihin. Jo kauan puhutun ja odotetun kehitysaskeleen arvellaan toteutuvan vuoteen 2015 mennessä. Uudistuksen odotetaan lisäävän maailmanlaajuista tieteellistä yhteistyötä sekä auttavan konkreettisesti syrjäisten seutujen terveys- ja koulutushaasteiden ratkaisemissa.

07/24/2007 CanSupport is a Delhi based registered organisation that works on providing palliative care to cancer patients in collaboration with the Institute Rotary Cancer Hospital at AIIMS. For fundraising, they are staging a play by the noted actors Naseeruddin Shah and Ratna Shah Pathak, 'DEAR LIAR', at Kamani Auditorium in New Delhi on 11 August 2007.

07/24/2007 Security agencies in India have shown concern over the threat to major installations in the country, including Rashtrapati Bhavan, air force airfields, army installations and nuclear research centres because of the Wikimapia site which combines high resolution satellite and mapping imagery created by Google Maps.

07/24/2007 Egov magazine interviews Kuanishbek Esekeev, the Chairman of Agency for Informatisation and Communications, Republic of Kazakhstan on the development of IT-technologies and the vision of the National e-Government Programme of the country.

07/24/2007 The European Commission has awarded an 'excellent' rating to the Open PLC European Research Alliance (OPERA 2) project, which aims to develop an open standard for the next generation of power line technology.

07/23/2007 A meeting by Bangladeshi NGOs - Strategic Use of ICT for Poverty Reduction - held on July 17, 2007 at in Bangladeshi capital Dhaka focused on using ICTs strategically to empower the poor.