Dear Friends, I take plesure in informing that the rural e seva project of West Godavari(AP)has been conferred the National Award for Exemplary...
sanjay jaju
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Feb 1, 2005 10:04 am
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It is interesting to note that the government agencies have chosen non=profit programs as well as to award in competition with the governmental programs. A...
The e-Krishi Vipanan (EKVI) project on digitization of commodity prices in mandis has received Golden Icon Award for 2004-05 in the category of outstanding...
This article explains why GPL is immune from corporate aggression .. http://trends.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/01/24/2141242&from=rss It also explains MS...
Omi Azad
omi@...
Feb 1, 2005 5:49 pm
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Some FLOSS links. From Asia. 02/02/2005 - 01:42 Meet these good people, and their ventures. At least virtually! Warning: some of the links might be only...
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 14:32:08 +0100 Subject: [rsfasie] NEPAL - King imposes state of emergency and cuts communications with outside world (Eng+Fr) Reply-To:...
NEW SUPPORT FOR DIGITAL VISION PROGRAM The Reuters Digital Vision Program at Stanford University is pleased to announce a new partner for the 2005-06 academic...
http://news.com.com/Court+strengthens+protections+for+Net+chat+groups/2100-1 030_3-5559474.html?tag=st_lh Court strengthens protections for Net chat groups By...
Dear Chetan Sharma Congratulation on the recognitiont for the Datamation Foundation Trust in connection with your "SAVE THE GIRL CHILD" e-Governance and...
profitinafrica@...
Feb 2, 2005 6:58 am
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School should teach students ways of life that will benefit society as a whole. They should promote the use of free software just as they promote recycling. If...
Omi Azad
omi@...
Feb 2, 2005 7:02 am
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Written in personal capacity, following is the text regarding information dissemination of AIDS towards married women of Pakistan. The data quoted and some of...
Zubair Faisal Abbasi
zfa@...
Feb 2, 2005 9:27 am
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Omi, I personally believe that you can't and will never be able to win a business boardroom war with pacifist (and somewhat elitist) propaganda. Aggressive...
IMPLEMENTING the usage of computers in educational institutions and using Bangla in data-communication and networking accessibility are areas that now receive...
Omi Azad
omi@...
Feb 2, 2005 11:11 am
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http://www.oneworld.net/article/view/93118/1/5294 Software patents: Brussels threat to our digital freedom David Heath david at davidheath.org OneWorld...
THE LONG ROAD TO A MEANINGFUL LIFE, YOO-MI LEE BLAMES A CONVINCING IDEA By Frederick Noronha Yoo-Mi Lee is South Korean, and when five, moved with her family...
... I followed Don, Fred and Satish's (among others) arguments on FLOSS and GPL with interest but frankly could not quite get Don's key point about the four...
Vickram Crishna
vvcrishna@...
Feb 3, 2005 5:20 am
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patents are for loosers who dont know how to sell their stuff..:) then they imagine they can be protected by patents they pay an expensive price, and then in...
Dear all, I am glad to inform you, "Transparency and Accountability in India's Industrial Guidance Bureau" initiative, has been selected as one of the eight...
Lifeline radios are the windup radios from http://www.freeplayfoundation.org/ Ed Girardet, just back from Aceh and once again in Kabul. I am in the process of...
From Frederick Noronha http://www.tacticaltech.org/asiasource/blog When Said Marjan Zazai gets back to his cross-border home that spans the home along the...
Dear all, Re: below -- in all this, I sense that an even bigger issue is being under-emphasised -- that at the margin, the state's and the multinational's...
On the airwaves... on a real shoestring budget Frederick Noronha Camp: http://www.tacticaltech.org/asiasource/blog Hello, hello! Low-powered radio is one of...
... SPECIAL EDITION FIFTH WORLD SOCIAL FORUM ... *APCNews, the monthly newsletter of the Association for Progressive Communications (APC)* - January 2005 No....
Sri Lankan programmers have developed an open-source disaster management system to assist in the tsunami relief effort in their country. It consists of an...
Omi Azad
omi@...
Feb 3, 2005 3:45 pm
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From: "J. Christian Quick" <quick@...> Delivered-To: mailing list creative-radio@yahoogroups.com List-Unsubscribe:...
What's the IOSN (http://www.iosn.net) all about? Many Asia Source participants might not be quite aware that this is a place which offers support -- in diverse...
FYI. The Working Group on Internet Governance has issued a set of Draft Working Papers and soliciting public comments. Please find below the descriptions from...