What's New on Digital Opportunity Channel - http://www.digitalopportunity.org **************************************** News http://www.digitalopportunity.org/news/ **************************************** Sri Lanka starts IT project for rural students http://www.propoor.com/news/xar1113.asp#8 The Sri Lankan government has launched a programme to impart computer literacy and technical knowledge to schoolchildren in the country's rural areas. Gates to support Indian e-literacy project http://infochangeindia.org/ItanddItop.jsp?section_idv=9#1703 Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft Corporation, has agreed to extend his support to Akshaya, an ambitious e-literacy programme in south Indian state of Kerala. Ghana, UK students learn together using the Net http://www.plan-uk.org/action/ghanaproject/ Students from the Asesewa school in Ghana and the Kingsmead school in UK are using the Internet and e-mail to know more about each other's countries. Africa lagging in ICT growth, finds new study http://allafrica.com/stories/200211130045.html A recent study by Nigerian Information Technology Professionals in America has found that Africa is far behind in the global ICT race. Cyber centre links remote India to rest of world http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org/content/news/index.cfm?key=797 A new state-of-the-art computer centre recently opened in Anini, an isolated district capital near India's border with China. It is believed to be the remotest among 487 free community information centres set up by the government. 18 projects reach finals of Global Junior Challenge http://www.e-inclusionsite.org/eng/finalists.asp Eighteen projects from developing countries, from Macedonia to Nepal, have reached the finals of the Global Junior Challenge. They qualify to compete for a share of the funds raised by the e-inclusionsite.org and the Global Youth Incubator. Click on e-inclusionsite.org (http://www.e-inclusionsite.org/) every day and help to fund such projects. 'Gates' giveaways close windows on Open Source' http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org/content/news/index.cfm?key=799 Microsoft chairman Bill Gates' numerous software donations and investments in India are merely a ploy to crush the growing Open Source Software movement in the country, allege Open Source advocates. Fund a school, help children cross the divide http://www.fundaschool.org/ Use the Internet to reach out to a community and hold hands with them to help run their school. Support a community school of your choice in one of India's poorest states for one year. Send in US$500 and watch the school and children grow to claim the future. Project to help West African NGOs in Net use http://www.kabissa.org/members/bb/viewtopic.php?t=224 Kabissa is set to launch a project in West Africa that will develop learning materials to enable non-profit organisations to use the Internet more effectively in their work. Microsoft now woos Pakistan software industry http://www.oneworld.org/ppf/mediafiles/Mediafiles2002/November2002/itnews20.htm After announcing investments of US$21 million in India, Microsoft has agreed to offer a 93 per cent discount on its software development tools to Pakistan's software industry. Ugandan President warns radio stations http://www.indexonline.org/indexindex/20021118_uganda.shtml Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has warned that radio stations in the country may be banned if they put exiled political dissidents on air. UNDP opens first IT training centre in Afghanistan http://www.undp.org/afghanistan/ UNDP has opened the first out of five Information Technologies Training Centres in Kabul. The project aims to provide technical skills for developing human capacities to handle the needs of the transitional government in Afghanistan. ***************************************************** Analysis http://www.digitalopportunity.org/features/analysis/ ***************************************************** Bridging the digital divide: ICT is not the panacea http://www.iconnect-online.org/base/ic_show_news?sc=107&id=1966 Mike Chege argues that the choice between the provision of basic needs versus the development of ICTs is a false dilemma: ICT development cannot be separated from the process of social and economic development in the 21st century. ************************************************************ Success Stories http://www.digitalopportunity.org/features/success_stories/ ************************************************************ E-links to the field, simple communication can yield rich crop http://www.digitalopportunity.org/fulltext/noronha20021119.shtml Frederick Noronha profiles the Indian Society of Agricultural Professionals (ISAP), whose Internet forum is yielding an abundant crop of information for its participants. ********************************************************** Campaigns http://www.digitalopportunity.org/get_involved/campaigns/ ********************************************************** Online conference on CSR, education and technology http://wbln0018.worldbank.org/wbi/WBiCatalogue.nsf/ExtEvent?OpenForm&code=PR I218-48-018&trail=ByDate The World Bank Institute is organising a three-week long e-conference on "Corporate Social Responsibility, Education and Technology" from November 18. Participate to share your views and experiences and to help develop best practices. Fund a school, help children cross the divide http://www.fundaschool.org/ Use the Internet to reach out to a community and hold hands with them to help run their school. Support a community school of your choice in one of India's poorest states for one year. Send in US$500 and watch the school and children grow to claim the future. Wanted: Articles for new ICT4D journal http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?sid=2055D6B6-D4D3-44DE-90AB -DDCE1C37665F&ttype=4&tid=59 The editors of the new quarterly journal Information Technologies and International Development, to be published by the MIT Press from July 2003, are soliciting full-length research articles as well as shorter research notes on ICT for development themes. ****************************************** Events http://www.digitalopportunity.org/events/ ****************************************** International Conference on Building Effective E-Governance http://www.mgsipap.org/egov-conference/ Thu 21 November 2002 - Fri 22 November 2002 Chandigarh, India The conference will address key issues for implementing e-governance, including best practices and case studies. The main sessions for the conference will include e-service delivery from government to citizen; technology solutions; legal aspects to privacy and security issues in e-governance; and infrastructure requirements. International Conference on Information Technology, Communications & Development http://www.itcd.net/ Sun 1 December 2002 - Tue 3 December 2002 Kathmandu, Nepal The conference aims to create a network of like minded people working in the area for IT&C, who can meet at least once a year to share ideas and experiences. Development by Design 2002 http://www.thinkcycle.org/dyd02/ Sun 1 December 2002 - Tue 2 December 2003 Bangalore, India The rural population of the world's developing countries and many indigenous groups lack basic educational, economic, and political rights and freedoms. This conference seeks to establish a critical dialogue towards collaborative and sustainable design innovation to tackle global challenges in the environment and underserved communities. ITU Telecom Asia 2002 http://www.itu.int/ASIA2002/index.html Mon 2 December 2002 - Sat 7 December 2002 Hong Kong, China ITU Telecom Asia brings together the most influential representatives of government and the telecommunications industry for the exchange of ideas, knowledge and technology for the benefit of the global community, and in particular the developing world. Linux Bangalore 2002 http://linux-bangalore.org/2002/ Tue 3 December 2002 - Thu 5 December 2002 Bangalore, India Linux Bangalore 2002 is a three-day conference on understanding and using Linux technologies. Partnership Networks as Tools to Enhance Information Society Development and Knowledge Economy http://www.globalknowledge.ru/GKRussia/index.en.html Mon 9 December 2002 Moscow, Russia The goal of the conference is to contribute to information society and knowledge economy development in Russia. The conference will open the "Russia and Knowledge Economy Week" organized within the framework of the Russian federal e-Russia program. Radio@Edge Conference http://www.radioacademy.org/theedge/ Mon 9 December 2002 London, UK The conference formerly known as Radio On The Web returns with extra added value and now includes all the alternative platforms on which to broadcast -- internet, digital radio, satellite, etc. WSIS Asian Regional Conference http://www.itu.int/wsis/events/asia.html Mon 13 January 2003 - Wed 15 January 2003 Tokyo, Japan This conference will serve as a regional forum for Asian policymakers and civil society leaders to prepare for the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), to be hosted in Geneva in December 2003 and in Tunis in 2005. |------------------------------------------------------------------| | Digital Opportunity Channel http://www.digitalopportunity.org | | Promoting Digital Opportunities for All | |------------------------------------------------------------------| | If you received this email from a source other than | | listmanager@oneworld.net you can subscribe yourself directly to | | this weekly mailing list by sending an email to: | | mailto:majordomo@oneworld.net | | With the following text in the body of the message: | | subscribe digitalopportunity | | | | If you received this email from listmanager@oneworld.net you | | can unsubscribe yourself from this mailing list by sending an | | email to: mailto:majordomo@oneworld.net | | With the following text in the body of the message: | | unsubscribe digitalopportunity | |------------------------------------------------------------------| ========== HURIDOCS-Tech listserv ========== Send mail intended for the list to <huridocs-tech@hrea.org>. 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