Pop stars are doing it, so are millions of teenagers and even Communist Party politicians — blogging has taken Vietnam by storm and spawned an alternative communications universe to dusty state media.
In an online phenomenon that has exploded in a little over a year in this youthful and booming nation, millions of net surfers now [...]
Formed as a result of the Crime & Disorder Act 1998, the idea behind the Partnership is that no single agency can tackle crime, disorder, or drugs by itself, and that it takes the joined-up efforts of a number of different agencies to make a real difference to community safety issues in Leicester.
The Safer Leicester [...]
The cost-free CDM Bazaar was unveiled by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the parent treaty of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, to encourage an exchange of information among buyers, sellers and service providers involved in the scheme.
Here, projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions in developing countries and contribute to sustainable development can earn certified [...]
With a view to provide specialized health services to patients in rural areas, a two way telemedicine link between Sir Ganga Ram Hospital here and Community Health Centres at Haryana and Rajasthan was established today.
Launching the pilot project ‘Village Resource Centre´ (VRC), a link between the hospital and CHCs in Gohana, Haryana and Kaithun, Rajasthan, [...]
In an effort to lure young voters to the polls, Connecticut Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz recently announced Thursday that her agency’s Web site will offer a video showing how to use the state’s recently acquired optical scan voting machines. The 90-second video can be downloaded onto personal recording devices, including iPods, and will [...]
The Madurai Division of Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) will phase out the use of paper slowly with the introduction of Enterprising Data Management System (EDMS), which would pave way for keeping records in electronic form, and facilitate LIC transactions by a policy holder from anywhere in the country. The Madurai division will serve as a [...]
The fishermen of Veerampattinam will soon have a mobile phone enabled intelligence system that will tell them everything from where to fish to when to venture home because the weather could turn ugly. M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) is working on on a solution to provide real time information on mobile phones using CDMA. The [...]
The standard of education was falling in the Maldives before broadband Internet access brought a quiet online revolution to classrooms in the Indian Ocean atoll nation.
Now Asina Ahmed hooks up to the Internet and uses a smart board with a touch-sensitive screen to liven up a maths class for a group of young Maldivian children [...]
LiveMint: Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL), India’s biggest phone services firm, will piggyback a state-of-the-art wireless broadband network that it’s setting up for a large computer kiosk network for the Union government to offer up to 85,000 customers high-speed wireless broadband services.
A draft tender circulated by the state-owned BSNL among hardware vendors details a range [...]
LiveMint: Goa is set to become the first state in India to be fully connected through a high-bandwidth broadband network.
By March, the network will be rolled out together by the state government and Bangalore-based tech solutions company United Telecom Ltd in a so-called public-private partnership model.
Optic fibre cables and wireless technologies will be used across [...]