The United Nations (U.N) Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is calling on nations to look into developing biofuel strategies that will harm rather than benefit the women living in rural areas.

Recently, the African Insect Science for Food and Health and the Biovision Foundation launched an Internet platform that will give farmers in East Africa free access to information on sustainable control of disease vectors and pests.

The Government of California has launched the state's official video channel on YouTube.com. The project, 'cost-neutral', would be implemented without any additional funds.

Fifteen countries have planned to the 2008 Education for All Global Monitoring Report during Global Action Week (21-27 April 2008). In this week, countries around the world are organising activities on the theme of "Quality Education to End Exclusion".

The open source developer community, Open Health Tools (OHT), has announced a collaborative effort to develop common healthcare IT products and services. Its 26 members consist of national health agencies, government-funded organisations and agencies, major healthcare providers, international standards organisations and companies from Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States.

The Government of India will soon invite tenders from telecom service providers to set up rural networks for which subsidy would be provided from the Universal Service Obligation Fund (USO). Around INR 99 billion fund is lying with the centre.