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The Spanish 
Telecentre and ICT Spaces Academy launched on May 10 a new training cycle, historically the 19th edition, but in fact the first one with the following new dynamic: for the first time this initiative is developed in a context of alliance among a big number of organizations both, public and private, bringing together most of telecentre and networks in Spain.

This alliance includes a…

The WSIS Forum, which runs until Friday, May 18, continues to take place on this Tuesday morning in the city of Geneva in Switzerland, organized by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and held under the auspices of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United Nations…

The Ministry of Commerce and Industry’s One-Stop-Shop has won a WSIS Project Prize in Geneva, Switzerland, in the category of e-business. This win was announced during the Opening Ceremony of the WSIS Forum 2012 event, which is taking place this week in the Swiss capital, Geneva, amid wide…

The Ministry of Education aims to have distributed 200,000 computers to primary school children across the country by the end of the year. The exercise is under the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) Project.

According to Nkubito Bakuramutsa, the project's coordinator, as many as 105,000 XO laptops have already…

Microsoft Asia Pacific organized a workshop in Manila to educate nonprofit organizations on how to fully utilize the merits of social media. Heather Mansfield, the founder of DIOSA Communications, was invited to share her years of experience in social media at the workshop. Twenty-three representatives from 20 nonprofit organizations, who are strategic partners and Microsoft beneficiaries of software donations, attended the workshop. Additionally, five students who are aspiring to be part of…

Are We Overlooking a Potential Engine for Social and Economic Change?

This was the question posed to participants during a National Forum on Public Access to Information in the Philippines held this morning, May 16, at the National Library of the Philippines in Manila. The forum, which was organized by IREX, the National Library of the Philippines and the Molave Development Foundation, Inc. as part of the…

After gathering all 
national partner campaign reports, Telecentre-Europe has now published the 
general campaign report for 
Get Online Week…

Telecentre.org Foundation celebrates
 World Telecommunication and Information Society Day (WTISD) on
 May 17 with two separate workshops in Geneva and Bangkok, respectively.

In Switzerland, TCF Executive Director Miguel Ramilla will be hosting,…

Geneva, 15 May 2012 – The 2012 edition of the WSIS Stocktaking Report has been released today at the WSIS Forum 2012, which is taking place this week in Geneva (14-18 May).

The report provides a two-yearly summary of the ongoing WSIS Stocktaking process, which will serve as the central reference point for assessment and evaluation in the Overall Review of the WSIS Implementation (WSIS+10). Preparations for this review, which will be led by ITU, begin this week as part…

More than 100 women who run market stalls in Accra and the Eastern, central and Western regions were given a three-day capacity building workshop on the use of ICTs.

The training was an initiative of the National Communication Authority, the Kofi Annan Centre for Excellence, …

The Kingdom of Lesotho has made ICT sector growth and manufacturing key priorities in its Poverty Reduction Strategy and National Strategic Development Plan.

The plan, prepared by authorities of the Kingdom of Lesotho in broad consultation with stakeholders, the World Bank and…

Following its
 recent win at the e-Asia Awards for the Telecentre Women: Digital Literacy campaign last December 2011, Telecentre.org Foundation has garnered yet another prized distinction, this time for its
Community…

Telecentre.org Foundation (TCF) and the National Information Society Agency of the Republic of Korea (NIA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding formalizing the partnership between the two organizations for the benefit of telecentres and Information Access Centers worldwide.

Among the areas covered under the MOU are the sharing of community networks, resources, and materials, as well as the exchange of human resources for training and other related services.

The signing…

Farmers, workers and entrepreneurs can use ICT to access market information, improve quality and productivity and strengthen business skills and employment opportunities.

Important article within IICD’s strategy.

more details on the attached file …

Africa has always been viewed as a continent that isn’t very connected in terms of internet speeds and the number of users – compared to other countries in the world. Research done by Net Index has reaffirmed this belief, and while Africa…

The winning team of the 2012 Microsoft East and Southern Africa Imagine Cup, a student competition which centers on the use of imagination, creativity and technology to help solve some of the world’s toughest problems, has been named in Nairobi.



Team WinSenga from Makere University was crowned the regional champs for their application which focuses…

Trying to establish an IT start-up in a rural setting might seem outlandish, more so if you are in a remote village in Sega, Ugenya District. The region that is 25 km from the Kenya - Uganda border is characterized by high HIV/Aids prevalence and poverty rates, high primary and secondary school drop-out rates and a youth…

An International Girls in ICT Day celebration was held on 2 May 2012, at the COMEX Exhibition, with cooperation with the Ministry of Education. The celebration hosted 210 girls, gathered from various schools from Muscat, Dhakiliya, and South Al Batinah, who have explored the various ICT…

source: http://www.frontlinesms.com

FrontlineSMS has huge potential as a tool for news-sharing, and this user guest post shows an example of this from a women’s news network in Sri Lanka.

By Ananda Galappatti, Minmini…

The world celebrated the ITU’s ‘Girls in ICT Day’ on 26 April 2012. In Malaysia, the Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development (AIBD) and Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM) held ITU’s ‘Girls in ICT Day’ programme under the auspices of the International Telecommunication Union-Universiti Utara Malaysia Asia Pacific Centre of Excellence for Rural ICT Development (ITU-UUM ASP CoE).

The event, which is celebrated every year on the fourth Thursday in April, honours girls’ interests…