[GKD] Directory of Rural Technologies

TECHNOLOGY FOR THE RURAL MILLIONS... IF ONLY IT CAN GET TO THEM By Frederick Noronha This is a story of the ingenuity of the common man and woman. From across the fields and villages of the India, and scientific labs, a whole range of technologies have emerged to make rural life a little less

[GKD] Linux to Debut in Goa Classrooms (India)

THE PENGUIN GOES TO SCHOOL: LINUX TO DEBUT IN GOA CLASSROOMS By Frederick Noronha GOA, India. Jan 10 -- After struggling for years to get access to non-pirated software to run their computer labs, schools in the western coastal state of Goa have hit a bonanza that seems too good to be true

[GKD] India Has Widest Digital Divide: WEF

India has widest digital divide: WEF By Ela Dutt, Indo-Asian News Service New York, Jan 31 (IANS) While no country has benefited more than India from the IT revolution, no country has a wider digital divide, says a country report released by the World Economic Forum (WEF) Thursday. The report w

[GKD] IT-based Innovation to Transform Rural Sector (India)

IT-based innovation to transform rural sector by Sharat Pradhan, Indo-Asian News Service Lucknow, Feb 3 (IANS) A premier Indian technology institute is working on an IT-based innovation that is expected to revolutionise the rural economy and boost output. Scientists at the Indian Institute of T

[GKD] Donated Computers to be Distributed in Goa (India)

way of doing the job. One could have mixed feelings about this. But, in the bargain, it seems to have planted a crucial idea: that the computer can, and is, well within reach. Not just for those who have the money for it. -- Frederick Noronha * Freelance Journalist * Goa * India 832.409490 / 409783 BYTESFORA

[GKD] Query on Simputer (India)

erick. PS: Please visit the http://linuxinindia.pitas.com site below... -- Frederick Noronha * Freelance Journalist * Goa * India 832.409490 / 409783 BYTESFORALL www.bytesforall.org * GNU-LINUX http://linuxinindia.pitas.com Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] * SMS [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Saligao Goa India Writ

[GKD] Free Software Movement Grows in India

http://www.zdnetindia.com/news/national/stories/52264.html?slink=nsl Free software Guru -- Richard Stallman -- on India mission Bangalore, India March 14, 2002 While the concept of using free software for back-end requirements is catching on, the desktop is yet to be liberated from the hold o

[GKD] First Simputers Deployed in Chhattishgarh (India)

First set of Simputers deployed in Chhattishgarh By Imran Qureshi, Indo-Asian News Service Bangalore, Mar 19 (IANS) The Simputer, or the common man's computer, has been deployed in the underdeveloped areas of Chhattishgarh state after its quiet rollout from the state-owned Bharat Electronics. T

[GKD] BYTESFORALL: South Asian ICT Newsletter

.agriwatch.com 0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o bYtES For aLL is a voluntary, unfunded venture. CopyLeft, 2001. bYtES For aLL e-zine volunteers team includes: Frederick Noronha in Goa, Partha Sarkar in Dhaka, Zunaira Durrani in Karachi, Zubair Abbasi

[GKD] Pakistan's Virtual University

OF UNIVERSITIES... REAL AND VIRTUAL Pakistan places its hopes for speeding up IT education in a new 'Virtual University'. Advisor to Islamabad's Ministry of Science and Technology Salman Ansari, who met Frederick Noronha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> at a UNDP/Asia-Pacific De

[GKD] Africa & South Asia--ICT Lessons for Each Other

AFRICA AND SOUTH ASIA: ICT LESSONS FOR EACH OTHER... By Frederick Noronha [EMAIL PROTECTED] IT WAS ONCE, rather condescendingly, called the 'dark continent'. Today, Africa hopes to harness the tools of modern ICTs (information and communication technologies) to spread knowledge and

[GKD] Simputer Team Wins Award for IT Innovation

Simputer project bags Dewang Mehta award for innovation in IT from Indo-Asian News Service New Delhi, Apr 12 (IANS) The team that developed the Simputer, a hand-held device aimed at taking the Internet to the rural masses in India, has been conferred the first Dewang Mehta award for innovation i

[GKD] Simputer, Hovering Between Hope and Impatience

] -- SIMPUTER, HOVERING BETWEEN HOPE AND IMPATIENCE... By Frederick Noronha [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Edited version published in the April 1, 2002 issue of Express Computes/IndiaComputes! section... www.expresscomputeronline.com] SITTING IN THE PALM of one

[GKD] Cisco Establishes 'Networking Academies' in India

Cisco for faster roll-out of networking academies in India By Frederick Noronha A networked world would be a far happier place for the student. So believes global networking giant Cisco Systems, as it pushes on with the ambitious roll out its 'networking academies' which it hopes co

Re: [GKD] Open-Source Software for Development

about the potential of IT-for-development (including a monthly column in one of India's most prestigious and mainstream IT magazines)... all done without a single rupee or taka or dollar spent, but through volunteer work. A lot is possible... if only there's an open mind. FN -- Frederick Noronh

[GKD] SchoolNet: Computers for Schools in Thailand

-- Sri Wittaya Paknam -- has a site that draws a hit rate higher than that of the Tourism Authority of Thailand, says Koanantakool, with a hard-to-hide smile. The teacher uses this site to teach English through the web. Say the project promoters, cautiously: "There is no guarantee wh

[GKD] ICT for Women in Malaysia

CLAIMING A WOMAN'S REAL PLACE... BEHIND THE KEYBOARD TOO! By Frederick Noronha fred at bytesforall dot org FROM KITCHENS to the keyboards. That's the transition that women in the home are finding it possible to make, thanks to the help they're getting from the new world of

[GKD] Computing For The Millions: Indian Language Solutions

* COMPUTING FOR THE MILLIONS: INDIAN LANGUAGE SOLUTIONS... * By Frederick Noronha IN A COUNTRY of a thousand million, where only a tiny segment of the

[GKD] Free/Open-Source Software for Engineering Students (India)

THE PENGUIN AS ENGINEER: TAKING GNU/LINUX TO THE PORTALS OF HIGHER EDUCATION By Frederick Noronha IT MAY BE taking its time to get done, but this is one simple idea that could have a wide-ranging impact for thousand of young engineers-in-the-making across India. Put briefly, the idea is simply

[GKD] BYTES FOR ALL: South Asian IT Newsletter

minal costs a total of £10,300 or £45 (approx US$64). "The total cost per computer is typically less than one tenth of the purchase price of a new computer locally," says this network. Further info from www.computeraid.org or from Angela Anyiam at [EMAIL PROTECTED] 0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o

[GKD] Simputer's Commercial Rollout Pushed to July

Simputer's commercial rollout pushed to July By Imran Qureshi, Indo-Asian News Service Bangalore, May 22 (IANS) The commercial rollout of India's most promising IT product, the common man's low-cost PC called simputer, is now expected in the second week of July. The simputer was originally plan

[GKD] Website to Help Farmers Bargain Better (India)

Thanks to Ashish Kotamkar for sending this across from Pune. FN -- Forwarded message -- From: "Ashish Kotamkar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject:Website to help farmers bargain better Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 12:11:24 +053

[GKD] Infodev Looks to India's Software Initiatives

World Bank's InfoDev looks to India software initiatives to fight poverty By Frederick Noronha BARAMATI, June 3: India may have huge problems in battling poverty, but growing IT skills here are spilling over to also finding relevant solutions, as the World Bank's program&#x

[GKD] Village Kids Find Computers a Useful, Simple Toy

Village kids find computers a useful, simple toy By Frederick Noronha SINDHUDURG (Maharashtra), June 30: Vaishali Ghadi, Rasika Parab, Anikita Malgaonkar and four other girls aged under ten years keyed in their names in English and saved the computer file with an acronym made up of the initials

[GKD] Microfinance to Get the IT Edge (India)

MIRROR, MIRROR... WHAT'S THE SUM I OWE YOU TODAY? By Frederick Noronha He's a young researcher still in his twenties of Indian origin. Parikh has been spending time in India even as we start seeing signs of a reverse brain-drain with skills and talent showing up from among expatriate

[GKD] On-line Learning in India

EMAIL PROTECTED]>, head of the Educational Technology Unit at NCST, explains to journalist Frederick Noronha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> of BytesForAll.org, some of the issues and plans that could flow out of this meet. Excerpts:

[GKD] ICT and Agri-Business in India

Transforming agri-business the e-way >From BUSINESS INDIA * June 24-July 7, 2002 By MEERA SHENOY * * * * * The 750-crore (Rs 7500 million) ITC group's e-choupal model provides agri-business with an e-solution. Farmers can now use the Net to leverage transmission capabilities and access market d

[GKD] Simputer Handheld Expands Its Options

>From the website of PC World (US edition) ___ Simputer Handheld Expands Its Options Linux-based device, designed to tackle the digital divide, soon will be available in higher-end configurations. John Ribeiro, IDG News Service Friday, July 19, 2002 BANGALORE, INDIA -- Sales of the

[GKD] India Learns from South Africa (Community Radio)

INDIA LEARNS FROM SOUTH AFRICA'S EXPERIMENT WITH COMMUNITY RADIO By Frederick Noronha fred at bytesforall dot org UDUPI, South India: This country which prides itself as the 'second largest democracy in the world' is learning a lesson or two on deploying radio from the young

[GKD] Digital Partners' Social Enterprise Laboratory

Digital Partners' Social Enterprise Laboratory (SEL) Call for Applications Please forward the following opportunity to anyone that you think may be interested in applying or any appropriate listserves you may be aware of. We have attached a copy of the announcement as well. Digital Partners, a

[GKD] Using TV to Improve Literacy (India)

Independence from Illiteracy through TV: Putting an old ICT to new ends On the eve on India's Independence Day, 2002, an experiment is being launched by Doordarshan and the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad to contribute to making every Indian independently literate. This most ambitious

[GKD] Educational Radio in India

Educational radio opening up in India... but only slowly >From Frederick Noronha Indian universities and deemed-universities have come up with proposals to launch 'educational radio' stations from their campus. But the current government policy is to allow only India's nation

[GKD] African Civil Society Building an Inclusive Information Society

PRESS RELEASE 13 November 2002 Viva African Civil Society Building an Inclusive Information Society! Viva! JOHANNESBURG - These were the words that began one of the most vibrant and challenging discussions about civil society's engagement in ICT policy-making in Africa to date. Organised by the

[GKD] Simputer to be Launched in Africa, Middle East Markets

Simputer to be launched in Africa, Middle East markets By Sudeshna Banerjee, Indo-Asian News Service New Delhi, Nov 25 (IANS) Simputer, a hand-held computing device developed in India to take Internet to the rural masses, is set to be launched in the Middle East and African markets soon, its prom

Re: [GKD] World Computer Exchange Article

Well, I received half a dozen copies of Tim Anderson's posting on the World Computer Exchange. [***Moderator's Note: Due to a server problem, multiple copies of this message were posted to the List. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.***] I have nothing against Timothy in perso

[GKD] IIT Bombay Develops New Multilingual Search Engine

from deccan herald/ Nov 27 Breaking the language barrier in IT: IIT Bombay develop new multilingual search engine >From Devika Sequeira vicki at goatelecom dot com DH News Service PANAJI, Nov 26 Move over Google. A team of researchers from the Indian Insititute of Technology Bombay, says it ha

[GKD] BytesForAll: SE Asian ICT for Dev. Journal

-- ###BytesForAll Ezine Nov2002## -- Bharateeya-OpenOffice - Should Indian languages be left behind in the world of computing? No, argues

[GKD] The OpenCD: Free/Libre and Open Source Software for Windows

GKD members may be interested in the following project to promote Open Source Software. -- Forwarded message -- >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Dec 11 22:40:25 2002 Hello, My name is Henrik Nilsen Omma, and I am one of the project leaders of a new Open Source Project called TheOpenC

[GKD] Free Linux for Education CD Available (India)

Thanks to Ajith Kumar of Delhi for sharing his work so generously, not just in India, but also elsewhere in the globe. We need such solutions! FN On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Ajith Kumar wrote: > Hello, > I am happy to inform you that the "GNU Linux Utilities for Education" > CD is now hosted at , tha

[GKD] Online Publishing for Developing Countries

Thanks to Daryl D'Monte, former editor, for sending this to the India-EJ mailing list for environmental journalists. Of course, one is not particularly enamoured by the term 'developing countries' (it suggests that these countries are actually catching up... the gap is widening and things get worse

[GKD] E-learning for Rural Teachers

Southeast Asia with localisations in Spanish, Portuguese, French, Chinese, Japanese and German. (ENDS) -- Frederick Noronha Freelance Journalist Goa India 0091.832.2409490/2409783 http://www.bytesforall.org Writing with a difference ... on what makes *the* difference ***GKD is s

[GKD] Bytes for All: South Asian IT for Dev. Newsletter

oid 'Software Freedom'. Says Prayanka Sharma: "In the December issue of 'Software Freedom', two topics for discussion have been taken up. We look forward for your participation in this open forum and look forward for your comments and views." Email contact is <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0

[GKD] World Information Summit... or Sellout Summit?

man Rights. "As Taiwan is a very powerful ICT country and it provides major input to the information society, we do hope our voices can be heard and be constructive towards a better future in the international community," she said. The representatives were allowed to stay at th

[GKD] Need URLs of Useful Free Software to Download

e Free Software into what it really should be -- an effective mechanism for the transfer of knowledge to the Third World! Your help is needed... FN -- Frederick Noronha: http://www.bytesforall.org : When we speak of free Freelance Journalist : Goa India 403511 : software we refer t

[GKD] Writing Indian Languages on Mobile Devices

Writing Hindi or Tamil on your mobile could be no big deal By Frederick Noronha Indian languages are too complex to make it to the computer keyboard or make the most of the power of cellphones, right? Wrong! A Mumbai-based team of scientists have worked out an innovative solution using a strong

[GKD] Making Computers, Software, Bandwidth Affordable (India)

Low cost computers, affordable software, bandwidth = India 3.0? By Frederick Noronha Rajesh Jain hit the headlines when he sold his IndiaWorld site for a few thousand million rupees. Today, his focus has shifted -- to taking computing to the commonman. "Most technology has been pric

[GKD] Community Radio Fights for Widows' Rights (Nepal)

Radio broadcasters raise voices for a better world By Sudeshna Sarkar, Indo-Asian News Service Kathmandu, Feb 20 (IANS) When her husband died in an accident Amala Pradhan's in-laws made sure that her life ended as well by dictating what she could wear or eat and where she could go. There are rep

[GKD] Opening Up of Educational Radio in India

s a tough task indeed. Maybe even a training session could be thought off for a start, open to all interested in applying for an educational broadcast license. -- Frederick Noronha: http://www.bytesforall.org : When we speak of free Freelance Journalist : Goa India 403511 : soft

[GKD] ISRO Building Knowledge Bank Satellite (India)

Chennai, Mar 14 (IANS) The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is working on a satellite project that will take educational material to remote and inaccessible areas, says the space agency's chief K. Kasturirangan. Education and expertise are at present concentrated in a "few islands of exce

[GKD] India's Telephone Man Bridges Digital Divide

believes Indian has the brains to come out top in technology. Such being the goals, is it an accident that this man is producing world-class technology? FREDERICK NORONHA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> interviews him: Q: What is the response to your technology abroad? We have started deploying corDECT in 15

[GKD] Free Software's Importance to India

WHY INDIA LOOKS TO GNU/LINUX WITH HOPE AND ANTICIPATION By Venkatesh (Venky) Hariharan venky1 at vsnl dot com www.indlinux.org Today, I am going to talk about why GNU/Linux is god's gift to India. To my mind, GNU/Linux represents one of the finest opportunities for taking the benefits of this

[GKD] BytesForAll - South Asian IT for Dev. Newsletter

, Hyderabad 50008 India. Phone 91-40-5566-6868/6869 Fax 91-40-5566-6870 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.allsoftindia.com 0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0 bYtES For aLL is a voluntary, unfunded venture. CopyLeft, 2003. bYtES For aLL e-zine volunteers team includes:

[GKD] The $100 Computer is Key to India's Technology Fortunes

GKD members may be interested in the following article detailing recent progress towards the design of a $100 computer in India. -FN ** India's Tech Renaissanc

[GKD] Help Change Community Radio Policy In India

UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD Frederick NoronhaINDEPENDENT JOURNALIST, Goa Basheerhamad ShadrachONE WORLD SOUTH ASIA, New Delhi - 1995-2005: Ten years of waiting for community radio in India! To know more: https://mail.

[GKD] Using ICTs for regulating water supplies in North India

I.T. IN THE VILLAGE: KEEPING TRACK OF WATER THERE'S AN AMAZING story coming in from North India, for a change. A Jaipur-based centre has worked out a software that allows users to create an interactive water-map of the village. This means, villagers would be better equipped to cope with drought.

[GKD] The Simputer... from India

THE SIMPUTER, A SIMPLE SOLUTION TO TAKE COMPUTING TO THE MASSES FROM INDIA by Frederick Noronha, BANGALORE, March 8: If this works as planned, the Simputer could go a long way in taking computing within the reach of the reach of the commonman... not just in India but across the Third World

[GKD] Satellite-Radio for the Third World

Space is working tirelessly to illuminate Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean with digital satellite audio. The system may bring the light of knowledge to four billion people and may diminish the darkness of ignorance, disease and despair."

Re: [GKD] The Simputer... from India

India-IT-Simputer Indian Simputer's demand already over 1 mn mark by Imran Qureshi, India Abroad News Service Bangalore, Apr 26 - India's promising contribution to the world, the Simputer, a low-cost portable alternative to the personal computer, is finally out - and its worldwide demand alread

[GKD] BYTESFORALL: May 2001 issue

_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ _/ B y t e s F o r A l l --- http://www.bytesforall.org _/ Making Computing Relevant to the People of South Asia _/ _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ MAY 2001 ISSUE * REPORTS FROM S.ASIA

[GKD] Water management software (India)

t through rainwater harvesting systems. FREDERICK NORONHA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> recently interviewed Vikram Vyas of The Ajit Foundation, who created the software. Excerpts from the interview: * QUESTION: What has been

[GKD] Library management software based on Linux (India)

LIBRARIANS GET HELP FROM UNEXPECTED QUARTERS, AS GOA STUDENTS WRITE USEFUL SOFTWARE By Frederick Noronha [EMAIL PROTECTED] GOA INDIA -- Librarians could get the smile back on their faces, thanks to the initiative of three young engineering students from Goa who have put together a software

[GKD] Technological Innovation in Rural India

THOUSANDS OF IDEAS BLOOM FROM THE MIDST OF IGNORED, RURAL INDIA >From Frederick Noronha [EMAIL PROTECTED] IN A COUNTRY of over a thousand million, there surely must be tens of thousands of bright minds churning out innovative ideas by the dozen. This is just the case, as is clear from the fi

[GKD] Congested cities? Computer code comes to the rescue

Congested cities? Computer code comes to the rescue... by Frederick Noronha, Indo-Asian News Service PANAJI (Goa), July 4 -- Can computer code make your ride less smoother as you traverse the congested roads of urban India? Goa-based Anupam Saraph is currently working on a tool he hopes would

[GKD]: India's Bank of Ideas

Thanks to Irfan Khan for drawing this to our attention... FN >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Jul 6 01:40:49 2001 [Sristi's website address: http://www.sristi.org/ ] 13 May, 2001 India's bank of ideas By Peter Day in Ahmedabad <...> I go to Ahmedabad to have lunch with a tableful of some of

[GKD] Bytes For All - July 2001

orld. Thank you Changemakers for the honour! 0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0 bYtES For aLL is a voluntary, unfunded venture. CopyLeft, 2001. bYtES For aLL e-zine volunteers team includes: Frederick Noronha in Goa, Partha Sarkar in Dhaka, Zunaira D

[GKD] In a software 'super-power', rural kids lack the code to learn

IN A SOFTWARE 'SUPER-POWER', RURAL KIDS LACK THE CODE TO LEARN... By Frederick Noronha WHY IS it easier for Indian school students to use the computer to study the geography of the United States, rather than know the states of their own country better? What is the fate of stude

[GKD] Does the computer have a heart... (case studies from India)

DOES THE COMPUTER HAVE A HEART? Programs that put people and development before profits... By Frederick Noronha Here comes the big surprise: IT and computers are showing their other face. No longer are these potent forces merely tools for profit, but in varying experiments across India they&#x

[GKD] Community Radio and South Asia

COMMUNITY RADIO HAS THE POWER... BUT IS SOUTH ASIA TUNED IN? By Frederick Noronha Nepal has moved far ahead of its other South Asian neighbours in its attempts to open-up its air-waves, and Sri Lanka has the longest history of promoting 'community radio' initiatives. So what's t

[GKD] BytesForAll completes two years

nificantly, the Bytes for All initiative has been run by volunteers of diverse backgrounds and nationalities, yet without spending anything, and based entirely on the support of committed contributors. Apart from the co-founders, Partha Pratim Sarker (Bangladesh) and Frederick Noronha (India), cur

[GKD] From software to microcomputers - new tools for teaching

FROM SOFTWARE TO MICROCOMPUTERS... FINDING NEW TOOLS FOR TEACHING By Frederick Noronha [EMAIL PROTECTED] INNOVATION is helping educators from across the globe to try out new solutions to old problems. ICTs (information and communication technologies) are helping to make classrooms more

[GKD] Does the computer have a heart?

DOES THE COMPUTER HAVE A HEART? Programs that put people and development before profits... By Frederick Noronha [EMAIL PROTECTED] Here comes the big surprise: IT and computers are showing their other face. No longer are these potent forces merely tools for profit, but in varying experiments

[GKD] Indian Company Develops Cheap Technology for Communication

N-LOGUE DEVELOPS CHEAP TECHNOLOGY FOR COMMUNICATION BANGALORE (UNI): A technology company incubated by the Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, has come out with a cheap Internet and telecom network which could revolutionise communication penetration in rural areas. Based on the Cordect Wire

[GKD]: ICT and Governance in India

What is your government official's duty? Check the Net... by Frederick Noronha PANAJI (Goa) -- What options do citizens in interior Goa have, when it comes to coping with mining pollution? Can corrupt 'public men' in the state be brought to book? If you need to understand t

[GKD] VCs shy away from funding Simputers

VCs shy away from funding simputers by Imran Qureshi, Indo-Asian News Service Bangalore, Sep 11 (IANS) Venture capitalists (VCs) are fighting shy of funding what appears to be India's most promising invention, the hand-held simputer, that can truly take the computer revolution to the masses. F

[GKD] ICT for Water Resource Management (India)

of the village, enables the community to keep records of the amount of water available from each water source,can record water quality testing, lists maintenance work done and required, estimates water demand, generates future monthly water budgets (based on past records), and shows the a

[GKD]: UN's first 'country pilot' for Health InterNetwork (India)

India home to UN's first 'country pilot' for Health InterNetwork by Frederick Noronha CHENNAI, Sept 26 -- India is being built up as the first 'country pilot' for an ambitious United Nations-led international project, seeking to strengthen public health services by m

[GKD] Making Access Affordable (India)

INTERNET FOR ALL: INDIAN VILLAGERS TO GET ACCESS AT PRICES THEY CAN AFFORD By Frederick Noronha [EMAIL PROTECTED] India's hundreds of millions of rural dwellers are given a cold-shoulder by businessmen, and lack the access to goods, services and information they so badly require. From Ch

[GKD]: Kerala To Protect Tribal Intellectual Property Rights

Kerala to protect tribal intellectual property rights by Liz Mathew, Indo Asian News Service New Delhi, Sep 22 (IANS) The Kerala government has decided to introduce legislation to protect the intellectual property rights of its tribespeople who have been practising traditional nature-based medic

[GKD] In India, Rural Kids Lack The Code To Learn

IN A 'SOFTWARE SUPER-POWER', RURAL KIDS LACK THE CODE TO LEARN... By Frederick Noronha WHY IS it easier for Indian school students to use the computer to study the geography of the United States, rather than know the states of their own country better? What is t

[GKD] BYTES FOR ALL Oct 2001 (part 2 of 2)

cess. This year the Exchange is providing 3,800 donated computers to 500 schools and 200,000 students in Bangladesh, Benin, Cameroon, Ecuador, India, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Uganda. http://www.WorldComputerExchange.org or send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0

[GKD] BYTES FOR ALL Oct 2001 (part 1 of 2)

_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ _/ B y t e s F o r A l l --- http://www.bytesforall.org _/ Making Computing Relevant to the People of South Asia _/ _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ It currently costs (an investment o

[GKD]: India to Network Educational Institutions

India to launch IT project to connect educational institutions >From Indo-Asian News Service New Delhi, Oct 19 (IANS) An ambitious project to provide Internet connectivity to a large number of secondary schools, engineering and medical colleges in India is on the anvil. "We are preparing a sche

[GKD]: Satellite Radio in India

SURF THE NET, VIA YOUR SATELLITE RADIO by Frederick Noronha BANGALORE, Oct 31 -- Download a website via your radio? Unbelievable but true. Yet this is soon to become possible across India too when a satellite-radio broadcaster enables its receivers with data-downloading capabilities. Shortly

[GKD]: IT Services for the Non-profit Sector

t; Or you can contact Sunil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------- Frederick Noronha * Freelance Journalist * Saligao 403511 Goa India [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Phone +91-832

[GKD] Wind-up Radios Being Well Received

FREEPLAY SAYS NEW MODELS BEING WELL RECEIVED IN THE FIELD... Pioneering 'wind-up' radios are being made in new models that are better equipped to take on the requirements of rugged Third World conditions, the Freeplay Foundation has said. Freeplay Foundation stresses that its involvement is in "

[GKD] Centuries-old poetry gets a leg-up from IT

GHAZALS ONLINE: CENTURIES-OLD POETRY GETS A LEG-UP FROM I.T. by Frederick Noronha [EMAIL PROTECTED] MUMBAI (India): Modern-day powers of IT is teaming up with the age-old charm of the 'ghazal' to breathe new life and interest in these captivating poems set to music, that are widely

[GKD]: Indev--Development Information Portal from India

ters' in Community Development, and was earlier associated with the DAINet, a Rs 20 million Development Alternatives Information Network run also from New Delhi. Excerpts from an interview with Frederick Noronha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :

[GKD]: Community Radio in India

FED-UP WITH WAITING, INDIAN RADIO ENTHUSIASTS GO IN FOR 'NARROW-CASTING' BANGALORE (South India), Oct 4: It's a case of being all dressed-up and having nowhere to go. Radio-enthusiasts in India, who have been waiting long to get legal permissions to set up community radio stations, have finally d

[GKD]: Centuries-old Poetry Gets A Leg-up From IT

GHAZALS ONLINE: CENTURIES-OLD POETRY GETS A LEG-UP FROM I.T. by Frederick Noronha MUMBAI, Aug 23: Modern-day powers of IT is teaming up with the age-old charm of the 'ghazal' to breathe new life and interest in these captivating poems set to music, that are widely popular in the S

[GKD]: India's Silicon Valley Gets Ready for GNU/Linux Event

ail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hewlett Packard (India Software Operations) has wholly sponsored Linux Bangalore/2001, amidst some early fears that the recession and the September 11 attacks in the US might make the task of finding sponsorship impossible. Updates are at http://linux-bangalore.org/2001 In

[GKD] An Indian Language Enters the Cyberage

** FROM KANNADA TO KEYBOARDS: AN INDIAN LANGUAGE ENTERS THE CYBERAGE ** By Frederick Noronha [EMAIL PROTECTED] For Dr U.B. Pavanaja, an unlucky 1993 scooter

[GKD] Can ICT Be India's Growth Engine?

Value For Money : Subir Roy Can ICT be India's growth engine? Business Standard, March 12, 2003 ICT has already started improving infrastructure and there is enormous potential for future development Can information and commun

[GKD] Taking Communities Online (India)

Taking communities online... Bangalore offers cyber tools to manage knowledge By Frederick Noronha Everybody on the Net seems to be focussing on technology and tools to get their job done, but an Indian-incubated initiative is focussing on how people can make the real difference in tapping the

[GKD] BytesForAll Clippings

est wi-fi systems so that villagers can get agricultural access systems right at their doorsteps. The technology to wirelessly connect to the Internet has recently been legalised by the government," said the report. It's hard to sift the claims from the reality sometimes... http://infoch

[GKD] Computers to Africa Scheme Criticised

IT MIGHT HELP if we had to look at what made computers obsolete so speedily, rather than just concentrating on shifting the older computers from the First to the Third World. I think bloatware-producing proprietorial software companies are part of the problem, not part of the solution. Free Softwar

[GKD] Is Linux Really Happening in India, or Is ItJust Hype?

Is Linux really happening in India, or is it just hype? SOBHA MENON TIMES NEWS NETWORK SUNDAY, JUNE 01, 2003 http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow?msid=383 It's being billed as the solution that will deliver the masses from computer illiteracy. And so it was hard

[GKD] Public Interest Ligitation Wants Gov't toUse Linux (India)

ded over pieces of its proprietary Unix code to Linux developers. While IBM has denied any wrongdoing, Microsoft expressed tacit support for SCO by licensing its Unix technology. -- - Frederick Noronha (FN)| http:

[GKD] Patent Vote Fails Europe's Software Programmers

further press information: Helmut Weixler Head of Press Office The Greens in the European Parliament Tel: (Bxl) +32 2 2844683 phone: 0032 475 671 340 fax: 0032 2 2844944 mobile phone: 0032-475-67 13 40 [EMAIL PROTECTED] THE GREENS/EFA in the European Parliament -- ----

[GKD] i4d ezine - Can ICTs Change Rural Lives?

s a voluntary, unfunded venture from South Asia, that looks at how IT and the Internet can be used for development in the region. Frederick Noronha, the cofounder of the initiative, shares his experiences about the project." What's on Events, conferences and exhibitions related to the f

[GKD] World's Poor to Get Their Own Search Engine

Thanks to George Lessard for this... FN -- Forwarded message -- World's poor to get own search engine By Alfred Hermida BBC News Online technology editor RELATED INTERNET LINKS: TEK project http://cag.lcs.mit.edu/tek/ Comments/Questions? Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] The goal of the

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