The European Commission announced that it would promote the use of ICT to improve energy efficiency throughout the economy, starting with buildings, lighting and the power grid.

According to a study Digital Planet 2008 released at the World Information Technology and Services Alliance (WITSA), the growth of ICT market will exceed $370 billion this year. The study was released at the first day of its World Congress for Information Technology, held at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 18-22 May 2008.

Researchers say that gases trapped in Antarctic ice cores provide fresh evidence that greenhouse gases concentrations of carbon dioxide and methane have never been as high during the last 800,000 years.

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has initiated the consultation process on satellite radio policy as proposed by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (I&B). The satellite radio policy will lay the ground rules for the companies to operate the satellite radio services in the country.

Slovakian Parliament takes the electronic route through Electronic Parliament to massively reduce the amount of paper that is used. The brainchild of Pavol Paska, Chairaman of the Slovak National Council, these electronic procedures will be in place by the September 2008 session of the National Council.

The first phase of a project launched in 2007 by Broadcasting Commission of Jamaica and UNESCO on train children in media literacy has now been completed. The project involves 910 students in 10 schools.

A new mobile phone based dietary assessment tool for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Genes and Environment and Health Initiative (GEI) has been developed by Sarnoff Corporation and Viocare Technologies.

Gujarat will be the first state in India to provide high-speed connectivity through satellite-based data connections to all its 13,693 gram panchayats by July this year, enabling video, voice and data offerings in the areas of e-Governance, distance education, telemedicine, agriculture and interactive advisory and counselling services.