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Book available for download here:http://www.digitalopportunity.org/section/ict4d/


]]> Sat, 22 Apr 2006 04:35:00 EDT http://atanu.tigblog.org/post/37841 28.6 77.2 28.6 77.2 Eighth freedom from hunger lecture http://atanu.tigblog.org/post/36597 Analyst) on 17 March 2006 at India International Centre. Dr Sharma will speak on "Globalisation and Farming Crises." The lecture will be chaired by Shri B P Singh, former Union Home Secretary and India's Ambassador at the World Bank.]]> Tue, 14 Mar 2006 06:50:00 EST http://atanu.tigblog.org/post/36597 28.6 77.2 28.6 77.2 WGIG fails to agree on how to govern Internet http://atanu.tigblog.org/post/26894
WGIG’s Final Report, released on 14 July 2005, has finally laid down four rival models of Internet governing before the governments and other stakeholders of the World Summit on the Information Society.


Since September 2004, with a consultation on the setting up of WGIG in Geneva, the independent working group met four times between November 2004 and June 2005, while consulting with various stakeholders. Under the chairmanship of Nitin Desai, Special Advisor to the United Nations Secretary-General for WSIS, WGIG produced reports on a wide range of Internet governance issues, undertaken consultations with the governments, private sector and civil society organizations to produce its final recommendations to the WSIS Secretariat.

In a press release, WGIG has commented, “the Report identifies a vacuum within the context of existing structures and notes that there is no global multi-stakeholder forum to address Internet related public policy issues. It therefore proposes the creation of a global forum for dialogue among all stakeholders such as governments, the private sector and civil society, to address problems linked to Internet governance, including spam and cyber crime. Since it was unable to agree on a single model, the Working Group in addition sets out four possible models for the conduct of global public policy and oversight of the Internet.”

Commending the work of WGIG, Markus Kummer, the executive coordinator of WGIG, categorically underlined the success of the Group as it had succeeded in creating an aura of trust among the stakeholders. \"Internet governance is not just names and addresses,\" Kummar said, possibly to offset the unease after failing to recommend the next course of action for the global community. Kummar mentioned of other issues - multi-lingualism, data protection and interconnection costs – that are being dealt within the ambit of Internet governance.

The release of WGIG has attracted mixed political and technical responses from various governments, private sector, academia and civil society. In its response to WGIG, the Internet Governance Project, a consortium of academic experts on international Internet regulation and policy, said that, WGIG has been successful in making a call for moving beyond unilateral U.S. control of the domain name system, and recognizing that existing Internet-related treaties around intellectual property protection are controversial, and may need to be reviewed to be better balanced with values such as fair use, free expression, privacy, technical innovation and economic development.

Creation of a permanent forum to steer the process of Internet governance debate forward has been proposed. The new, open global Internet policy forum will be mandated to give equal status to citizens and governments. Supporting the forum’s ideals, IGP comments “Such a forum will not succeed unless its efforts are focused on a particular objective…the new forum focus on preparing the world\'s governments to achieve binding agreements on the basic principles and norms to guide Internet governance.”

Link: Digital Opportunity Channel]]> Mon, 01 Aug 2005 00:50:00 EDT http://atanu.tigblog.org/post/26894 28.6 77.2 28.6 77.2 Meeting today http://atanu.tigblog.org/post/24573 OneWorld South Asia's involvement in youth programmes. This, I guess, will happen through various cross-sectoral issues and programmes. As Jennifer has indicated earlier, we are going to work closely with TakingITGlobal, and its allies, on several fronts.

In next few days, I will be having meetings with my colleagues in different programme areas, particularly with Grassroots Communications, Knowledge for Development and Policy Advocacy to frame working issues and directives for furthering this work.

Writing for Sachi, ISEC, Bangalore is in progress and I hope to send across this article within next few days.]]> Tue, 10 May 2005 12:43:00 EDT http://atanu.tigblog.org/post/24573 28.6 77.2 28.6 77.2 Millennium Development Goals: Making a world of difference http://atanu.tigblog.org/post/24542 issue focuses on how young people can help their socities in achieving the MDGs. With insightful articles, interviews and lots of sketches, this issue of Tunza is really interesting.

Bangalore is going to host the 2005 Tunza annual comference during October.]]> Mon, 09 May 2005 07:21:00 EDT http://atanu.tigblog.org/post/24542 28.6 77.2 28.6 77.2 Global Alliance for ICT and Development http://atanu.tigblog.org/post/24538
Various local, regional and international policy consultations, preceded by online discussions through out the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), demonstrate that even a global policy dialogue such as this can be inclusive and participatory in nature. Since the early stages, civil society organisations organised thematic and regional online consultations to elicit local and regional views for formulating their inputs for the Summit.

More: Digital Opportunity Channel.]]> Mon, 09 May 2005 03:53:00 EDT http://atanu.tigblog.org/post/24538 28.6 77.2 28.6 77.2 World problematique http://atanu.tigblog.org/post/24537 Volkswagen Foundation’s 2000 Annual Symposium book in Hannover.

In this paper, Meadows elaborates further the concept of sustainable development modelled in the book Limits to the Growth. Simply put, in this paper, it is argued that the notions of poverty eradication and ensuring food security as being advocated by international policy-makers and politicians will be challenged by current demographic trends worldwide and diminishing contributions of natural resources, energy and technology. Partha Dasgupta, an economist, favoured that actions taken locally can have positive implications in sustainable development.

Global policy directives are imperative when it comes to certain problems that are global in nature. Club of Rome’s mapping of such areas is very useful in this regard.]]> Mon, 09 May 2005 03:41:00 EDT http://atanu.tigblog.org/post/24537 28.6 77.2 28.6 77.2 One year http://atanu.tigblog.org/post/23967
Ankur, CSDMS has sent me an invitation to attend the launch of their research outcome of the project on FOSS "Mapping the Role of Free/Libre Open Source Software Solutions in South and South East Asia’.

I am yet to reply Jennifer's email and am not sure whether OW will fund my trip.

Within next few days, I am thinking of contributing to Open Access issue, which is being debated at WSIS-CS and Karen is drafting the draft proposal paper on this issue for the upcoming WGIG meeting.]]> Mon, 18 Apr 2005 08:59:00 EDT http://atanu.tigblog.org/post/23967 28.6 77.2 28.6 77.2 Grassroots Caucus at WSIS http://atanu.tigblog.org/post/22796
Arunabahen Parmer travels extensively in rural India to capture the travails and hopes of women in India using a heavy umatic camera. At the Self-employed Women's Association (SEWA), India’s largest women’s trade union network, Arunabahen works as the video producer. “Opportunities for all” was her key message to the PrepCom, as she feels that all citizens can use ICTs and not just the educated.
To read the full story, click here.]]> Sat, 12 Mar 2005 00:34:00 EST http://atanu.tigblog.org/post/22796 28.6 77.2 28.6 77.2 Taking internet to every Indian village http://atanu.tigblog.org/post/22795
This project has once again reminded me that telecentres or any ICT-enabled development intervention in rural areas is more to do with the people and content, rather than technology. In today's market, better connecting technologies are available at lower costs, but the human effort of content generation for benefiting the grassroots people remains the same.]]> Fri, 11 Mar 2005 00:00:00 EST http://atanu.tigblog.org/post/22795 28.6 77.2 28.6 77.2 Launch of online discussion forum: FOSS: Policy and Development Implications http://atanu.tigblog.org/post/20868
General information about the mailing list is here.]]> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 06:28:00 EST http://atanu.tigblog.org/post/20868 28.6 77.2 28.6 77.2 Making ICTs work for food security in Africa http://atanu.tigblog.org/post/20588 From: Digital Opportunity Channel]]> Sat, 13 Nov 2004 10:19:00 EST http://atanu.tigblog.org/post/20588 28.6 77.2 28.6 77.2 More fishermen, lesser fish http://atanu.tigblog.org/post/19673 Using efficient trawlers and satellite tracking system, fishermen in the coastal villages of Tamil Nadu in India can catch more fish in the Bay of Bengal than ever, resulting into a drastic drop of regeneration of this resource and increasing the vulnerability of marine ecosystem. To ensure a sustainable fishing culture, Tamil Nadu government enforced an annual ban on fishing for a period of 45 days. Two Dutch biology students, Eline van Haastrecht and Marjanka Schaap recently conducted an assessment on the efficacy of this system of ban and it is found that it has been effective in restoring this rapidly depleting resources.


More: World Bank
MSSRF' ICT for Development Project with Fishing Community: IICD

]]> Tue, 28 Sep 2004 01:13:00 EDT http://atanu.tigblog.org/post/19673 28.6 77.2 28.6 77.2 Portrait of the artist http://atanu.tigblog.org/post/17461 The wide playgrounds were swarming with boys. All were shouting and the prefects urged them on with strong cries. The evening air was pale and chilly and after every charge and thud of the footballers the greasy leather orb flew like a heavy bird through the grey light. He kept on the fringe of his line, out of sight of his prefect, out of the reach of the rude feet, feigning to run now and then. He felt his body small and weak amid the throng of the players and his eyes were weak and watery. Rody Kickham was not like that: he would be captain of the third line all the fellows said.
James Joyce, , A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
I read Portrait as part of my undergraduate studies in English Literature. And today it reminds me the image of my memory of the Dublin boy.
]]> Wed, 16 Jun 2004 14:23:00 EDT http://atanu.tigblog.org/post/17461 28.6 77.2 28.6 77.2 Digital Village to be launched in Nigeria http://atanu.tigblog.org/post/17157 'Gbenga Sesan will manage the Lagos Digital Village project commissioned recently. This project is expected to offer a comprehensive range of ICT services to the society.
Click here for more.]]> Fri, 04 Jun 2004 09:38:00 EDT http://atanu.tigblog.org/post/17157 28.6 77.2 28.6 77.2 Youth science festival in Singapore http://atanu.tigblog.org/post/16936
Among the inventions was a dustbin comes up to your level via infrared sensor.

"We see the elderly try to throw rubbish and they try to bend down and some of them, when they grow older, have osteoporosis. So it's quite a pity for them," said Siti Fatimah, a Secondary 3 student at Jurong West Secondary.
Read more about it here.]]> Thu, 27 May 2004 06:01:00 EDT http://atanu.tigblog.org/post/16936 28.6 77.2 28.6 77.2 Indian youth icons http://atanu.tigblog.org/post/16903
The list was drawn up after IMRB, commissioned by MTV, did a survey in ten cities to understand who could be the possible candidates for the coveted award. The quantitative research had a sample size of 808 respondents, distributed equally between the two sexes, in the age group of 15-24 belonging to SEC AB. Individuals contacted were from households who had cable and satellite TV and claimed viewership of music channels for atleast 30 minutes a week.
Read more about it here.]]> Wed, 26 May 2004 09:27:00 EDT http://atanu.tigblog.org/post/16903 28.6 77.2 28.6 77.2 Youth - innovative and more http://atanu.tigblog.org/post/16721
Taking a page from the revitalized Nissan Motor Co., struggling Mitsubishi Motors Corp. (MMC) will form special task forces of younger employees to draw up management plans, sources said.

The plan, part of the automaker's recovery road map to be officially announced today, was inspired by Nissan's dramatic turnaround under President Carlos Ghosn.
Read more about this here.]]> Fri, 21 May 2004 00:40:00 EDT http://atanu.tigblog.org/post/16721 28.6 77.2 28.6 77.2 Canada's youth http://atanu.tigblog.org/post/16720 Read more about this here.]]> Fri, 21 May 2004 00:36:00 EDT http://atanu.tigblog.org/post/16720 28.6 77.2 28.6 77.2 Mdj http://atanu.tigblog.org/post/16708 Mdj is community networking platform for all the youth centers spread across Canada, numbering about 350. Called as Maisons des jeunes, these centers act as an access point for youth for voicing thier concerns to society at large.

En Francaise
Mdj est plateforme de gestion de réseau de la communauté pour tous les centres de la jeunesse écartés à travers le Canada, numérotant environ 350. Appelé en tant que jeunes de DES de Maisons, ces centres agissent en tant que point d'accès pour la jeunesse pour des soucis thier exprimants à la société dans son ensemble.]]> Thu, 20 May 2004 04:13:00 EDT http://atanu.tigblog.org/post/16708 28.6 77.2 28.6 77.2 Wish you were here | With me http://atanu.tigblog.org/post/16533 Funny how the years they just pass by.
I met you so long ago, even your face comes to my mind oblique. Seems like yesterday, you were in my life.Yet your presence is so bright in my mind.You always wanted to start a family. I was too young, I was running free.Yes yes, I wanted to see the world. If you could only see me now, you'd realize.Because I was too young to give in...Now you come to me and please dont pretend again...
Influenced by E.Iglesias]]> Fri, 14 May 2004 14:43:00 EDT http://atanu.tigblog.org/post/16533 28.6 77.2 28.6 77.2 European Integration http://atanu.tigblog.org/post/16527 http://europa.eu.int/comm/coreservices/forum/index.cfm?forum=Futurumfuseaction=contribution.homeDebate_ID=-38Done=190]]> Fri, 14 May 2004 09:55:00 EDT http://atanu.tigblog.org/post/16527 28.6 77.2 28.6 77.2 ICT policy workshop in New Delhi http://atanu.tigblog.org/post/16277 The workhop was though highly interactive, various non issues were raised and discussed.I pointed out how OWSA played in influencing the policy making efforts through its global portal like DigitalOpportunity Channel and the discussion forums like Information Society:Voices from the South. OWSA has been instrumental in bridging the digital divide trough projects like OKN and EkDuniya which will essentially benefit the grassroot people through empowering them to publish local knowledge in internet in local languages.
The detail brief of this workshop could be found at http://www.gipi.org.in/ICT%20POLICY%20WKSHP%20APRIL%202004/Agenda.htm
In order to maintain the dialogue on the ICT policy workshop, a mailing list has been created which could be subscribed by sending a mail to ictpolicy-subscribe@yahoogroups.com]]> Thu, 06 May 2004 01:19:00 EDT http://atanu.tigblog.org/post/16277 28.6 77.2 28.6 77.2 Kausalya http://atanu.tigblog.org/post/15997 More:http://www.goodnewsindia.com/Pages/content/newsclip/story/123_0_2_0_C/]]> Tue, 27 Apr 2004 01:39:00 EDT http://atanu.tigblog.org/post/15997 28.6 77.2 28.6 77.2 Young students produce films on global issues http://atanu.tigblog.org/post/15894 More: http://www.digitalopportunity.org/link/gotolink/addhit/53986]]> Fri, 23 Apr 2004 09:03:00 EDT http://atanu.tigblog.org/post/15894 28.6 77.2 28.6 77.2