Forwarded for your kind information. Shahzad ... From: Sarmad Hussain Sent: Monday, September 03, 2007 10:21 AM Subject: PAN Localization Project Phase 1...
A company based in Pakistan offers a challenge to a market dominated by Microsoft, Google and Yahoo. Excerpt from an article published in The New York times A...
Hi All In the e-mail below, Khairil Yusof gives the link to the official ISO communique concerning the vote on OOXML. So Microsoft didn't get its fast-track...
APDIP e-Note 19 Telecentre Technology The application of free and open source software http://www.apdip.net/news/apdipenote19 The affordability of FOSS and its...
FOSS Inter-Regional Exchange Grants in support of FOSS developers and practitioners in Asia-Pacific http://www.iosn.net/exchange-grants/osi Free and Open...
Hi Everyone, Here is the latest highlights from telecentre.org. * Are telecentres a Farce or Reality * Interview with Rajen Varada, Director, Technology For...
FYI by Fouad Bajwa A guide to open licensing By: http://www.opendefinition.org/guide Please note This guide has been produced by individuals who are not...
Hi everyone, There is another attempt on the part of the Pakistan Government to introduce an Ordinance/Bill that is supposed to make the Internet and...
APC launches new book on WSIS, developing countries and civil society: Time for lessons learned http://www.apc.org/english/news/index.shtml?x=5202187 ...
Hi Everyone, Here are highlights from the telecentre.org blog * e-Skills for Employability Summit Brings Together 50 European NGOs * Community Radio India...
There are some videos on YouTube that are part of the activism effort to create an understanding of what the draft in its present form mean for the normal...
Congratulations and thank you The Pakistani eCrime bill doesn't concern only Pakistan, as the same dangers are present elsewhere too: this afternoon, for...
The proposed eCrime Bill affects everyone. This is the ~90 minute presentation that Lawyer Zahid Jamil made at T2F. This presentation has also been made to IT...
Dear Claude, You are quite right about us not being alone. I am quoting below an email received from one of our long-time bloggers who has joined us in this...
I think that Zahid Jamil is doing an exemplary job of bringing this issue to the front. He should be supported in the print and electronic media. Many months...
Hi Salman, I really don't get it. Zahid has been struggling with this for years ... and now you say that you have clearly pointed out the problems with the...
Dear Salman sab and colleagues, Worst part of the problem here is that this bill is blindly backed by our dear honorable IT minister Awais Khan. I keep seeing...
Sure Shahzad, I will be only too pleased to send all the material to Yusuf - I think he can play a key role here as he did in the Faisal Chohan case. After...
Dear Jehan Thank you for your kind answer, and for the quote from Dr Awab's e-mail. "Teeth Maestro" is indeed "quite a geek": he is internationally known...
Dear Yusuf Sab, Thank you for your support and kind message. You will appreciate this fact that it is nobody's personal gain or loss... We need to look this...
Jehan, I remember you have been circulating the presentations and various comments by different people on this recently. Since Yusuf sab is not subscribed to...
Dear All, Although I am normally a silent reader, I had to add my two cents worth on this particular issue. In addition to the issues already raised widely,...
Dear Shahida, Please please please no silence in the future. Have your say on all burning issues. This is an excellent and timely post. Hope that all relevant...
Dear Aslam, I think it is only natural that emotions should run high when one feels that business interests and fundamental human rights are at stake....
Dear Aslam Sab, First of all, if you can, please help us all stopping this bill to go for any approval. It will be disastrous if approved in its current shape....
Dear Aslam Sab, First of all, if you can, please help us all stopping this bill to go for any approval. It will be disastrous if approved in its current shape....
Zahid Thank you for recognizing all of us who have been in the advocacy business (not just discussions, but kicking butt and making things happen) since ...