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Post Office goes electronic
Jay Bhatt | October 11
"Gone are the days, when people dropped a letter in a box expecting it to get delivered after a month or more. Malabika Sarkar takes a look on how IT has helped build a better postal service" "As an on-going effort, IT has made a difference to every field, and the same goes for the postal...
Small Hours
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Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also...
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jesus reforba | October 10
Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also...
Small Hours
jesus reforba | October 10
Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also...
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FEATURE STORY
Web 2.0 and Development
Web 2.0 and Development What prospects does the Web 2.0 revolution hold for ICT4D?
By: Ilan Tsekhman
July 30, 2008 | [more]
Access Denied
By: Kim Hart, Washington Post | June 19, 2008
The Blind or Deaf Can Feel Left Behind As the Tools of Technology Advance

$100 Laptop! Is it worth what it seems to be?
By: Alok Shrestha, TakingITGlobal | Community: Access | January 31, 2008
The project named, OLPC (One Laptop per Child), is gaining rapid popularity in developing as well as developed countries. This project was initially conceptualized by Nicholas Negroponte, founder chairman of MITs’ (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Media Lab and was announced in The World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland on January 2005. The project aims to provide laptops worth $100 to each and every school age child of underdeveloped and developing countries so that children do not have to be deprived of basic education.

Thinking About Tomorrow
By: Vauhini Vara,Jessica E. Vascellaro, Wall Street Journal | Community: Cool Tools | February 7, 2008
. How will technology change the way we shop, learn and entertain ourselves? How will it change the way we get news, protect our privacy, connect with friends? We look ahead 10 years, and imagine a whole different world. January 28, 2008; Page R1

Story Telling:My Second Home at Salamieh Telecentre
By: Nabil Eid, Salamieh Telecentre | Community: ICT4 Development | February 6, 2008
Story Telling:My Second Home, Salamieh Telecentre ICTs4D Rural women with Disabilities Roza Al-Yazji a Twenty-two years old girl, ranking the third amongst four brothers, She was born and suffered from many health problems, including speech disorder and learning disabilities. At the beginning, her parents noticed that case. But when she reached the age of sixteen, her parents could see her delay in speech and learning, balance disorder when she walked. Her parents tried to get her into the state School but that was in vain. She was unable to continue learning with her colleagues in the classroom. Then she had no other choice but leave school and stay at home and rely on her relatives in learning.

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Rhee Bypasses Talks, Imposes Dismissal Plan
Washingtonpost.com | Oct 3
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شات | Sep 28
Google Invests In Broadband For Poorer Countries
Slashdot | Sep 10
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Events
MobileActive08 Summit
10/13/08
Johannesburg, South Africa
Interoperability in eGovernment: Can technology help?
10/17/08
Brussels, Belgium
Global Innovation Forum for Education and Development
10/21/08 - 10/24/08
Yerevan, Armenia
5th Prato Community Informatics & Development Informatics Conference 2008: ICTs for Social Inclusion: What is the Reality?
10/27/08 - 10/30/08
Prato, Italy
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