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31.08.2007 Deutsche Welle, Germany's foreign broadcaster has made its television programs available live on many mobile devices, making it possible to watch DW-TV while away from TV and computer.

30.08.2007 e-Krishi centre in an Indian state of Kerala is making people of Malappuram district more happy in Onam festival by offering them cheap goods than any other place.

30.08.2007 Tujuh anggota keluarga di Arab Saudi yang mempekerjakan empat orang PRT asal Indonesia memukuli pekerjanya secara brutal awal Agustus ini. Akibatnya, Tarwiyah Slamet (32) dan Susmiyati Abdul Fulan (28) meninggal karena luka-luka yang dideritanya

28.08.2007 NEW YORK, Aug 28 (OneWorld) - Thousands of protesters are expected to converge on New Orleans Wednesday to raise awareness about what they believe to be the Bush administration's failure to help Americans who lost everything in the wake of a ferocious storm that hit the United States' Gulf Coast some two years ago.

27.08.2007 United Nations officials called on top Chinese executives to utilize information technology to improve the plight of poor people and to fight against poverty, illiteracy and disease in their home country and around the world.

27.08.2007 Liki puolet perulaisista oli ennestäänkin köyhiä, ja elokuun maanjäristys vain pahensi tilannetta. Presidentti Alan Garcían hankkeet tilanteen helpottamiseksi eivät vakuuta kaikkia.

27.08.2007 Iso-Britannian pääministeri Gordon Brown ja Saksan liittokansleri Angela Merkel sopivat viime keskiviikkona uuden globaalin aloitteen yksityiskohdista. Aloitteella pyritään parantamaan maailman köyhimpien maiden terveydenhuoltojärjestelmiä.

23.08.2007

23.08.2007 An e-Book entitled, ICT in Agriculture: Perspectives of Technological Innovation provides an overview of successes and failures in the development and adoption of ICT in agriculture and the rural sector.

23.08.2007 ICT4D dgCommunity has taken an extensive interview of Barbara Fillip from the Academy for Educational Development (AED) and Mark Surman from Telecentre.org, on major telecenters' issues, the outputs of a recent publication untitled "Making the connection: Scaling Telecenters for development" .

23.08.2007 UNITED NATIONS, Aug 22 (OneWorld) - Despite intense relief efforts from around the world, thousands of people in Peru who survived last week's deadly earthquake are still living without food, shelter, and life-saving medicines.

22.08.2007 The Spices Board of India is going to launch electronic auction (e-auction) to ensure transparency in commodity trading. The new initiative will provide proper and error-free documentation, facilitating speedy billing and invoicing to eliminate the chances of hidden costs for the benefit of small growers.

21.08.2007 According to the Report by the Centre for Public Policy at Brown University in the US, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries are capable of developing websites to offer best possible electronic services.

20.08.2007 The former President of India, APJ Abdul Kalam has inaugurated the web-based telemedicine link which is believed to eliminate healthcare disparities in the country, at the IIT campus of Hyderabad with the cooperation of University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, US.

20.08.2007 The Brunei Ministry of Education has allocated US$5.9 million fund for Information Technology project, which will connect students in Brunei schools.

17.08.2007 The first conference on the use of Web 2.0 for rural development and natural resource management will take place from 25-27 September in Rome. 40 speakers have been selected from organisations with various backgrounds from North and South, among them the representatives will be from IBM, Oxfam and UNESCO.

17.08.2007 The government of the south Indian state of Karnataka will assist communities in setting up 12 community radio stations to empower rural people.

16.08.2007 The latest (2006-2007) World Economic Forum Global Information Technology report shows that African countries are still lagging behind in terms of using opportunities offered by ICT so needs to enlarge efforts in the development and application of ICT in all the sectors of the economy to compete globally.

16.08.2007 According to the Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA), technology is transforming Australia’s agricultural landscape and bringing new levels of precision to farming, solving traditional agricultural challenges in new and improved ways and making the industry more efficient.

15.08.2007