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Shipra Sharma Weekly News Round Up: Asia (17- 23 December 2009)

Cellphone banking to take Pakistan by storm 17 December 2009 The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) is working closely with the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) to develop a unified regulatory framework to connect all banks with cellular operators for mobile transactions.Speaking at a press conference here on Wednesday, PTA Chairman Dr Mohammed Yaseen said the two sides were finalising a draft of ‘Third party mobile banking regulations’ that would allow mobile phone operators and bank… Continue

Added by Shipra Sharma on December 24, 2009 at 12:32am — No Comments

Shipra Sharma Weekly News Round Up: Asia (10- 16 December 2009)

ICT for dairy industry 10 December 2009 Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA ) is to strengthen the national dairy industry by applying Information and Communication Technology(ICT) through its e-Society program. Under the direction of ICTA , Dambadeniya Development Foundation, one of the pioneers in rural livelihood development has implemented a pilot project centered at the Dambadeniya , Narammala and Alawwa veterinary divisions in the Kureunegala district.… Continue

Added by Shipra Sharma on December 22, 2009 at 2:01am — No Comments

Shipra Sharma An interaction with the Latin American delegation visiting India and MS Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF)

Yesterday, I and my colleague Dinoj Kumar Upadhyay were invited to have lunch with a delegation consisting of key officials from some Latin American countries. We were also accompanied by our colleague Rajeshree Dutta Kumar from the digital learning editorial team. The delegation was on a study tour to India from 2nd to 17th December 2009 to learn about MS Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF)'s various ICT-enabled development initiatives and their experimentations and innovations in the field… Continue

Added by Shipra Sharma on December 15, 2009 at 6:52am — No Comments

Shipra Sharma A Guidebook for Managing Telecentre Networks: engineering a new phase of the telecentre movement is avaialbe online

Dear Members, A Guidebook for Managing Telecentre Networks: engineering a new phase of the telecentre movement is avaialbe online now. This wikibook is an outcome of a collaborative project of the telecentre.org community and is edited by Meddie Mayanja, Manuel Acevedo, Silvia Caicedo and Claire Bure. it seeks to fill in the gap of telecentre… Continue

Added by Shipra Sharma on December 14, 2009 at 12:00am — 2 Comments

Shipra Sharma Weekly News Round Up: Asia (3- 9 December 2009)

Promoting IT in rural areas, Govt’s aim (Sri Lanka) 3 December 2009 The Government has given top priority to promote information technology among people, especially the rural community to enable Sri Lanka to emerge as a knowledge based economy. The development depends on acquiring knowledge and technology is necessary to forge ahead, said Minister of Science and Technology Prof. Tissa Vitharana. Asia’s premier ICT event e-Asia 2009, the fourth in the series was opened by President Mahinda… Continue

Added by Shipra Sharma on December 9, 2009 at 4:07am — No Comments

Shipra Sharma Weekly News Round Up: Asia (26 November- 2 December 2009)

Malaysian Students Rule Cisco's Asia Pacific Skills Competition 26 November 2009 A team of three students from the Multimedia University, Cyberjaya, in Malaysia, beat 15 other teams from around the Asia Pacific region to top Cisco® Asia Pacific NetRiders 2009, an annual skills competition organized by the Cisco Networking Academy®, a comprehensive e-learning : http://www.cisco.com/web/about/citizenship/soc… Continue

Added by Shipra Sharma on December 4, 2009 at 1:44am — No Comments

Shipra Sharma Weekly News Round Up: Asia (19-25 November 2009)

Vietnam creates healthy competitive environment for ICT 20 November 2009 The Vietnamese Government has created a fair, healthy competitive environment for businesses involved in information and communications technology (ICT), affirmed Le Nam Thang, Deputy Minister of Information and Communications. At the first seminar of the Vietnam International Communications Summit (Vietnam Comm 2009) opened in Hanoi on November 19, Deputy Minister Thang said that Vietnam has developed a modern commu… Continue

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Shipra Sharma Weekly News Round Up: Asia (05- 11 November, 2009)

LG India forays into education vertical 5 November 2009 LG Electronics India Private Limited, a market leader in consumer durables and home appliances, on Wednesday, announced its foray into education vertical by offering its innovative technology product line of IT business solutions, besides enhancing the learning process for the schools and colleges in the country... http://tinyurl.com/ycylvtl… Continue

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Shipra Sharma Weekly News Round Up: Asia (05- 11 November, 2009)

LG India forays into education vertical 5 November 2009 LG Electronics India Private Limited, a market leader in consumer durables and home appliances, on Wednesday, announced its foray into education vertical by offering its innovative technology product line of IT business solutions, besides enhancing the learning process for the schools and colleges in the country... http://tinyurl.com/ycylvtl… Continue

Added by Shipra Sharma on November 17, 2009 at 12:40am — No Comments

Nabil Eid The Vision behind the Dream!

It was three years ago that e-ISOTIS and AbilityNet decided that they should do something in order to make people aware of and celebrate how ICT, products and services were serving the lives of people with disabilities, and the elderly, and highlight how users could exploit these tools. Together, we wished to ma… Continue

Added by Nabil Eid on November 16, 2009 at 5:52am — No Comments

sharif islam e-Krishok Scaling up and Replication Launching Ceremony

On the 29th of October, 2009 Bangladesh Institute of ICT in Development (BIID) in collaboration with Katalyst and Grameen Phone Ltd at an event in the village of Protapur in Sreepur, Gazipur formally launched the scaling up and replication of the e-Krishok campaign.

At the same time, the event was used to rebrand G… Continue

Added by sharif islam on November 2, 2009 at 12:16am — No Comments

Shipra Sharma Weekly News Round Up: Asia (22- 28 October, 2009)

South Korean delegation calls on A. Raja, the Union Communications and Information Technology Minister, India 22 October 2009 A nine-member South Korean delegation, headed by Dr. Kwak Seung-Jun, met Union Communications and Information Technology Minister A. Raja here today to explore possibilities of cooperation in the field of information technology and services... http://blog.t… Continue

Added by Shipra Sharma on October 28, 2009 at 3:12am — No Comments

Shipra Sharma ICT Ministers meet on 27 October 2009 for Speeding-up Delivery of e-Services in India

The Press Information Bureau, Government of India has posted the following press release. In addition to informing about the meeting, the perss release also gives a good overview of India's National eGovernance Plan. Happy reading... The National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) approved by the Union Cabinet in May 2006 is a significant initiative with few parallels anywhere in the world in terms of its size, complexity and breadth of coverage. Recognising the importance of NeGP and its vision of making… Continue

Added by Shipra Sharma on October 27, 2009 at 1:30am — No Comments

Shipra Sharma Weekly News Round Up: Asia (14- 21 October, 2009)

BSNL for better mobile connectivity on Bangla border (India) 14 October 2009 The BSNL has been approached seeking adequate mobile connectivity on the Indo-Bangla border in Meghalya, according to Chief Minister D D Lapang. Lapang discussed problems of mobile connectivity, broadband connections and telephony in the border areas at a meeting with senior BSNL officials here last evening, officials said. "The BSNL is putting up an additional 143 towers, mostly in border areas to ensure univers… Continue

Added by Shipra Sharma on October 23, 2009 at 1:18am — No Comments

sharif islam Call for Paper: BIID & ULAB’s Working Paper Series: 01 "Spearhead of ICT4D Knowledge"

Greetings from BIID & ULAB’s Working Paper Series: 01 "Spearhead of ICT4D Knowledge"! Bangladesh Institute of ICT in Development (BIID) and University of liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB), takes the opportunity to host the first ever ICT for Development working paper series [BIID & ULAB's ICT4D wps:1] in Bangladesh. The paper will, principally, focus to capture or document diffusion/adoption/implementation/impacts of ICT on development at international, national, organizational and communi… Continue

Added by sharif islam on October 20, 2009 at 11:00pm — 3 Comments

Shipra Sharma Weekly News Round Up: Asia (7-13 October, 2009)

UN unveils child online protection guide (Australia) 8 October 2009 The UN telecoms agency on Wednesday launched a blueprint for online child protection, as experts warned that children must be accompanied on the internet in the same way as they are in the real world. International Telecommunications Union chief Hamadoun Toure said the Child Online Protection guidelines would evolve every year to keep up with fast moving changes in web interactivity, content and technology...… Continue

Added by Shipra Sharma on October 14, 2009 at 3:24am — No Comments

Subir Dey i4d's 'Gender and ICTs' special issue is available for download

Dear Friends and Colleagues, The latest issue of i4d magazine (July - September 2009) focusing on 'Gender and ICTs' has been uploaded on the web for easy distribution among the global audience. Due to some issues with the server end of our website, I have uploaded a high resolution .pdf version of the magazine at http://www.esnips.com/web/i4d (22.8 MB file). A low resolution version (3 MB) of the issue has also been uploaded to the same we… Continue

Added by Subir Dey on October 13, 2009 at 5:30am — No Comments

Shipra Sharma Weekly News Round Up: Asia (1-6 October, 2009)

BPO operations normal despite floods (Philippines) 1 October 2009 Except for some absent workers, the country’s outsourcing firms, particularly those in Metro Manila, managed to operate without a hitch since tropical storm Ondoy hit last weekend. Only a few companies experienced operational problems, particularly those that were located in the flooded areas like Marikina and Cainta. These include the ICT Group, NCO, and TeleTech...… Continue

Added by Shipra Sharma on October 8, 2009 at 1:24am — No Comments

Nabil Eid Workshop in 5 days to use of ICT in Intellectual Education School in sultanate Oman.

Workshop in 5 days to use of ICT in Intellectual Education School in sultanate Oman. The workshop and training course supported by information Technology Authority (ITA) and Ministry of Education in Oman.

The aims of workshop and training course to use ICT for disabled students and to gets informal education… Continue

Added by Nabil Eid on October 5, 2009 at 2:41pm — No Comments

Shipra Sharma Weekly News Round Up: Asia (24- 30 September, 2009)

TCS bags multi-year network project from AP Government. 24 September 2009 India's largest IT services firm Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) said, Wednesday, it has bagged a multi-year project from the state government of Andhra Pradesh to build and operate a state-wide area network (SWAN) that will increase the efficiency in government functioning. The company, which has secured similar projects from other states such as Chhattisgarh, Tamil Nadu and Bihar, said the proposed SWAN project wi… Continue

Added by Shipra Sharma on September 30, 2009 at 7:15am — No Comments

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Wandila Simon replied to Wandila Simon's discussion 'Free and Open Source Software ; challenges and opportunities in telecentres'
Dear Vidyaratha, I agree with that there is limited software to enable billing . Have you checked all the links that I have provided up here? There must one that has a link to billing software. You can also check the following links : http://www.a…
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Wandila Simon replied to Wandila Simon's discussion 'Free and Open Source Software ; challenges and opportunities in telecentres'
Thanks George for the sharing. You have nicely highlighted on cost-effectiveness of using free and open source software and the need to spend on technical skills to make good use of the software. I agree with you that there should not be completly…
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Vidyaratha Kissoon replied to Wandila Simon's discussion 'Free and Open Source Software ; challenges and opportunities in telecentres'
Dear Wandila thanks for sharing these resources and to open the discussion. I think the problem has been that there is limited software to enable 'billing' , and to manage the time of the user sessions. Apart from those issues, there are FOSS option…
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Hello everybody ! Thanks to all of you who are taking part is this discussion. This is really an interesting topic and it has just come at the right time. Lets continue sharing. Wandila
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