[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] Wireless-for-Development Portal Launched (Venezuela)

Campaigners in Venezuela have launched a wireless-for-development portal, and the English-language details are below. See and also for EsLaRed's eighth Latin American workshop on networking

[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] Using ICTs to Promote Blood Donations (India)

er in different cities in these Four Countries. I would be highly obliged if your friends could help. Do help Kushroo if you can. A worthy cause. FN _ _/ \____Frederick Noronha * Freelance Journalist * Goa \ __\/\ India T +91.832.2409490 M +919822 122436 | | | | \

[GKD] Free and Open Source Software Tools for NGOs

mation or in order to obtain a copy of NGO-in-a-box, please contact us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tactical Technology Collective © 2004 | Site by Floatleft Frederick Noronha (FN)Nr Convent Saligao 403511

[GKD] Local Relevance is Key to ICTs for Development

&parentid=1 4> ------- Frederick Noronha (FN) Nr Convent Saligao 403511 Goa India Freelance JournalistP: 832-2409490 M: 9822122436 http://www.livejournal.com/users/goalinks http://fn.swiki.net ht

[GKD] NGOs and Free Software

nd money to purchase applications to 'read' the information. Use of swatantra software enables that, as South India-based lawyer Mahesh Pai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> points out. * Because free software empowers computer users and encourages them to cooperate, as Richard M Stallman notes

[GKD] India's March Towards Open Access

ection of this website, focussing on science and development issues. -FN FORWARDED VIA: ---- Frederick Noronha (FN)Nr Convent Saligao 403511 GoaIndia Freelance Journalist P: 832-2

[GKD] India's PM Launches Village Resource Centre

rts of the northeast. ISRO and the Department of Space plan to set up more such VRCs in regions such as islands, mountainous terrains and tribal-dominated areas, before extending the service to all 600,000 villages. -------- F

Re: [GKD-DOTCOM] What Are the 'Right' Resources to Foster Professional Development?

Dear GKD Members, When discussing the 'right' resources for promoting professional development, a major component would have to be the use of non-proprietary software to deliver online training, especially in developing countries. The virtual forum announced below discusses the use of Free and Ope

[GKD] BytesForAll: South Asian ICT4D Newsletter

_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ _/ B y t e s F o r A l l --- http://www.bytesforall.org _/ Making Computing Relevant to the People of South Asia _/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bytesforall_readers 062004 _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_

[GKD] First Community Radio in South Africa Celebrates 10th

Anniversary Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Precedence: bulk Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Success Rewards Bush Courage By Michello Cho [Radio World * July 2003] CAPE TOWN, South Africa: The Bush Radio story exemplifies the power of positive thinking. The first community radio initiative in South Afr

Re: [GKD] RFI: Low-Bandwidth Long Distance Wireless E-mail

o maintain it. Roberto Verzola is right. I just can't seem to get through to the www4mail services these days. The services were very helpful for us in the bandwidth poor parts of the globe. FN -- ----- Frederick Noronha * Freelance Journal

[GKD] Sustainable Agriculture Magazine on CD

.net.in (AME, Bangalore). Local organisations and individuals in the South (Third World) can receive the magazine free of charge on request. Write to subscriptions at ileia.nl -- ----- April 2004 | Frederick Noronha, Freel

[GKD] Video Volunteers: Using Video to Fight Poverty (India)

-- --- | Frederick Noronha, Freelance Journalist | Goa India 0091.832.2409490 or 2409783 | | Email fred at bytesforall.org | Writing with a difference | ... on what makes *the* difference | http

[GKD] Simputer Finally Launched

GKD Members might be interested in the article below which announces the launch of the Simputer in India. It's followed by an alternate view, forwarded from the Nettime List. - * Simputer for poor goes on sale * A cheap handheld computer created

[GKD] Community Radio Gives India's Villagers a Voice

INTERESTING STORY from South India. Sorry for the delay in posting it. As someone involved with the community-radio debate, I'd urge anyone who sees potential in this form of communication to add their voice to the demand for freeing India's airwaves. The world's "largest democracy" needs to prove

[GKD] Wealth By Copyleft...Creativity In The Digital Age

-- 8< --- 8< --- 8< --- 8< --- 8< --- 8< --- FORWARDED THROUGH INDIA BY: -- Frederick Noronha: http://www.fredericknoronha.net Ph 0091.832.2409490 Freelance Journalist : http://www.bytesforall.org Ph 0091.832.2409783 http://fredericknoronha.

[GKD] India's Multi-lingual E-mail Exchange Featured in Media

News from Pune... FN -- Forwarded message -- [Mithi's website is at http://www.mithi.com/ ] The Indian Express January 21, 2004 Taking on Microsoft with an e-mail exchange Pune, January 20: Their first product was a multi-lingual word processor, built together with C-DAC. The

[GKD] Tackling India's Literacy Problem

Building 10th Flr # 71 Nariman Point Mumbai 400 021 Tel 56689378 (d) 5668 (bd) [EMAIL PROTECTED] corp soc responsibility : adult literacy prog WWW.TATALITERACY.COM * * * THE 300-MILLION QUESTION: HOW TO SPREAD LITERACY IN INDIA... AND FAST >From Frederick Noronha WHAT DO you do wit

[GKD] Will Computers Help Goa's Children?

Will computers help Goa's children? By Daryl Martyris dmartyris at hotmail.com For the last five years a silent revolution has been happening in Goa's village schools. Overseas Goans have been sending money and used computers to village schools. The government has been distributing PCs (personal

[GKD] Simputer May be Built in Singapore, for Indian Market

Simputer, taxed back home, tries a Singaporean foothold >From Frederick Noronha SINGAPORE: They're held up as an example of Indian ingenuity, but get heavily taxed by their own government. Now, the technological potential of the Simputer is getting pinned on a financial pact that might

[GKD] Using ICT to Improve Education (India)

IN A WORLD WHERE THOSE WHO CAN'T TEACH, I.T. CAN by Frederick Noronha CAN IT AND THE INTERNET help teacher's teach better, design courses better, build improved learning environments, and support the learner more adequately? Yes, say the experiences of technologists working in variou

[GKD] Using Computers to Battle Illiteracy (India)

stions on how such initiatives could be further spread, do get back. FN --------- Frederick Noronha (FN)| http://www.fredericknoronha.net Freelance Journalist | http://www.bytesforall.org http://goalinks.pitas.com

[GKD] Information Societies and the Gender Divide (India)

Building Information Societies: Grappling with Gendered fault-lines Reshmi Sarkar, IT for Change, Bangalore Information technology (IT) is viewed as a potent force in transforming social, economic, and political life across the globe. Today, without being plugged into the information age, there i

[GKD] Flaws in India's Model e-Governance Project

Flaws in Bhoomi, India's model e-governance project By Keya Acharya Karnataka's Bhoomi project, which computerised 20 million rural land records, was designed as an instrument of equity. But is IT also reinforcing inequality, with men benefiting more than women and the rich benefiting more than t

[GKD] E-choupals -- ICT and Agribusiness in India

E-choupals: Taking agribusiness into the new millennium ITC's 1,200 Internet kioks in villages across 18 states allow this agri-business company to procure soya and other produce directly from farmers, eliminating the middleman and saving producers time and money. Traditionally, choupals are comm

[GKD] The Phones Keep Ringing in World's Poorest Country

http://www.panos.org.uk/newsfeatures/featuredetails.asp?id=1125 The Phones Keep Ringing In World's Poorest Country By Harun Hassan MOGADISHU (PANOS) Somalia is a country in ruins. With 70% of the population living below the poverty line and international relief largely cut-off by civil war, its a

[GKD] Results of a Survey of Computers in a School in Goa, India

URL: http://gscp.org/components/survey3.htm Results of survey conducted at Vasant Vidyalaya HS Respondents Profile 30 students 9 males, 21 females from grade 9 9 were 16-18 year range, 21 were 13-15 years range Background - Vasant Vidyalaya is a secondary school with a total enrollment of abou

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

own online community .. and they can invite their friends. Perhaps one of them might be that special somone. What better way to meet such a person through someone you trust, while still maintaining your anonymity?" 0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0 b

[GKD] Open-Source Medical Software

are.org LinuxMedNews http://www.linuxmednews.com Meditux http://meditux.sourceforge.net/ Open Infrastructure for Outcomes http://www.txoutcome.org -- ----- Frederick Noronha (FN)| http://www.fredericknoronha.net Fr

[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

[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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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 - 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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

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] 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

[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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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

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] 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

[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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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]: 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]: 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]: 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]: 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] 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] 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]: 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

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