Full Coverage: Internet

30.01.2007 Miklos Haraszti, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, urged Albanian parliamentarians today to ensure that media regulation takes into account the abundance of channels that digital television transmission enables as they prepare licencing regulations.

30.01.2007 Projekti ”Shqipëria në moshën e internetit”, i financuar nga PNUD brenda 6-mujorit të parë të 2007 do të bëjë të mundur që në të gjitha shkollat e mesme të kenë akses në internet dhe pas 2 vitesh të gjitha shkollat e vendit.

25.01.2007 Pred nekolku dena sluzbeno e lansiran regionalniot zenski portal www.ekviva.net. Portalot momentalno gi obedinuva informaciite za zenskite prasanja, kako i temite od graganskoto opstestvo od Hrvatska, Bosna i Hercegovina, Srbija, Crna Gora i deluva so regionalno urednistvo na relacija Zagreb-Split-Saraevo-Tuzla-Belgrad.

24.01.2007 Dodicesimo compleanno di OneWorld (www.oneworld.net) una delle più autorevoli reti mondiali di società civile, di cui Unimondo è il portale italiano. Sorto da una piccola organizzazione britannica di comunicazione (la One World Broadcasting Trust - OWBT che dal 1987 divulga informazioni su diritti umani e sviluppo sostenibile) il 24 gennaio 1995 nasce OneWorld con l'obiettivo di diffondere un'informazione via internet rivolta alle Ong e a un costo ridotto rispetto ai mezzi di comunicazione tradizionali. In questi anni il portale www.oneworld.net ha ricevuto diversi riconoscimenti tra cui quello del Segretario Generale dell’Onu che lo ha indicato come un “potente strumento per lo sviluppo a beneficio di tutta l’umanità, in particolar modo la parte più povera del mondo”.

24.01.2007 Javën e kaluar, portali rajonal i grave www.ekviva.net u lançua zyrtarisht. Për momentin portali publikon artikuj mbi grate si dhe të shoqërisë civile në Kroaci, Bosnjë, Serbi dhe Malin e Zi. Zyrat të editorëve ka në Zagreb, Split, Sarajevë, Tuzla dhe Beograd.

24.01.2007 OneWorld-verkosto, johon myös Suomen Maailma.net kuuluu, täyttää tänään 12 vuotta. Verkoston tavoitteena on ollut tehdä maailmasta parempi paikka uutta teknologiaa hyödyntäen. OneWorld aloitti toimintansa Oxfordshiressa, Isossa-Britanniassa, ja on nyt kasvanut kansainväliseksi ja monikieliseksi verkostoksi.

24.01.2007 Last week, the regional women portal www.ekviva.net was official launched. At the moment, the portal gathers information on women issues, as well as civil society topics, in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro. It has an international editorial office with editors sitting in Zagreb, Split, Sarajevo, Tuzla and Belgrade.

23.01.2007 Prije nekoliko dana službeno je lansiran regionalni ženski portal www.ekviva.net. Portal trenutno objedinjuje informacije o ženskim pitanjima, te temama civilnog društva iz Hrvatske, Bosne i Hercegovine, Srbije i Crne Gore i djeluje s regionalnim uredništvom na relaciji Zagreb-Split-Sarajevo-Tuzla-Beograd.

23.01.2007 Indian public sector majors BSNL and MTNL have promised to deliver a New Year gift to those subscribing to their internet services. Bandwidth on entry level ADSL broadband connections provided through telephone lines are to be raised from 256 kbps to 2 Mbps at no extra cost to the customer.

22.01.2007 Od 22. do 27. Januari vo Studentskiot Centar i klubot Mocvara vo Zagreb se odrzuva tretiot Festival na slobodna kultura, nauka i tehnologija vo organizacija na Multimedijalniot institut. Tema na ovogodisniot festival se radiofrekvencijskiot spektar kako javno dobro, otvorenite komunikaciski standardi i gragjanskoto ucestvo vo sozdavanje na mediumi.

22.01.2007 Na 17 januari 2007, vo NUB “Sv. Kliment Ohridski” – Skopje, se odrza prezentacija na moznosta za besplaten pristap do sirok i obemen izbor na internet - bazi na informacii. Pristapot do ovoj bogat izbor na internet-akademski izdanija, zurnali i istrazuvacki trudovi e ovozmozen preku godisna pretplata so vremetraenje do oktomvri 2008, sto ja finansirase USAID, vo ramkite na aktivnostite na proektot „Kreativna nastava i ucenje”, implementiran od Fondacijata Institut otvoreno opstestvo – Makedonija (FIOOM).

22.01.2007 The third Freedom to Creativity Festival of Free Culture, Science and Technology starts today, January 22, in Zagreb. The Festival, organized by the Multimedia Institute, will end January 27, 2007. The main topic of this year’s festival will be radio frequency spectrum as a public good, the open communication standards and civic participation in creation of media.

19.01.2007 A five days training programme on computer applications and its effective usage in advocacy and communications at rural level was organised for the filed functionaries of the Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan (NYKS) on 13 – 17 January 2007 at Jehangirabad in Barabanki district in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

17.01.2007 Metamorphosis and Free Software non-governmental organizations demand from the Government to enable the citizens to choose, if they want, to be trained in the use of free and open source software, for which there is great interest in the public. According to the two organizations, the FOSS alternatives, such as Open Office, in addition to providing the same services as the proprietary software used by the Government, offer other benefits, important in the current economic situation in the country.

16.01.2007 Vladata na RM, preku kampanjata „Makedonija-zemja na informaticari” planira da go podigne nivoto na informaticko znaenje i da go zgolemi procentot na korisnici na internet vo Makedonija.

12.01.2007 With the aim to strengthen the fight against HIV/AIDS on the internet, the Iskorak Centre for Rights of Sexual and Gender Minorities established the AIDS.HR internet portal. Having in mind the general population in Croatia, the contents were adapted for average citizens, teen-agers, and other uneducated persons with proclivities towards risky behaviour.

10.01.2007 Na 21.12.2006 godina Sobranieto na Republika Makedonija go izbra m-r Ivo Ivanovski za minister bez resor zadolzen za informaticko opstestvo vo Vladata na Republika Makedonija.

10.01.2007 On.net je jedan od najpoznatijih pružatelja internetskih usluga (ISP-a) koji se trenutno nastoji pomaknuti prema drugim područjima telekomunikacija. Već je potpisao sporazum o interkonekciji s glavnim operaterom u području fiksne telefonije, Makedonskim telekomunikacijama. On.net je također uključen u brojne aktivnosti vezane uz odgovorno poslovanje. Razgovarali smo s Predragom Cemerikicem, glavnim menadžerom On.net-a.

10.01.2007 In its last session prior to the start of the Holiday Season, the Parliament of the Republic of Macedonia elected Ivo Ivanovski for the position of a minister without portfolio in charge of information society.

09.01.2007 On.net is one of the most prominent internet service providers now trying to move into other areas of telecommunications. It has already signed the interconnection agreement with incumbent operator of fixed land-lines, Macedonian Telecommunications. Also, On.net has been involved in a variety of corporate responsibility operations and activities. We talked to Predrag Cemerikic, the General Manager of On.net.