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Table of Contents
Features
IT For The Common Man: Lessons from India
Kenneth Keniston
The KIOSK Networks: Information nodes in the rural landscape
Aditya Dev Sood
ICT innovations by civil society organizations in Rural India: De-hyping ICTs
T T Sreekumar
Rendezvous
Digital GMS
The Indian development experience
ICTs for development
Columns
Insight, What's on, Last Word
 

What's on

India

27 – 28 May 2003
UNDP Consultation on ICTs
New Delhi
www.undp.org.in

30 May – 2 June 2003
Empowering women through Information and Knowledge: From Oral Traditions to ICT
Mahindra United World College of India, Pune
gendwaar.gen.in, harsha_parekh @vsnl.com

31 May – 2 June
Third Annual Baramati Initiative on ICT and Development
Baramati, Pune, Maharashtra
www.digitalpartners.org

10 – 12 December 2003
International Conference on e-Governance – 2003
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
mpgupta@dms.iitd.ernet.in

27 December
Fifth Edition Mysore IT.com
Mysore
www.mysoresamachar.com/mys_it_com5.htm

China
21 – 23 July
The ElearnChina Conference 2003
The Edinburgh International Conference Centre
www.elearnchina.com

25 – 28 August
The 7th International Conference of Human Services Information Technology Applications
The Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition center
www.hkcss.org.hk/husita7
secretariat.husita7@hkcss.org.hk

Thailand
12 – 16 May
United Nations/Thailand workshop on the Space Technology Contributions to Bridge digital divide
Bangkok
www.oosa.unvienna.org
victor.kotelnikov@unvienna.org

Korea
14 – 17 October
World Knowledge Forum
Seoul
www.wkforum.org

Malaysia
27 – 30 May
KP Forum on ICTs and Gender: Optimizing Opportunities
Kuala Lumpur
www.globalknowledge.org, gkps@gkpsecretariat.org.my

21 – 24 June
InfoSoc Malaysia 2003
Melaka
www.nitc.org.my/infosoc

1 September (tentative date)
Multimedia Asia (MMA) 2003
Malaysia
www.msc-multimediaasia.org.my

13 – 15 October 2003
Map Asia 2003
www.mapasia.org

UAE

10 – 14 May
9th GCC e-Government, Telecom & Internet Forum
Dubai
www.datamatix-dubai.com/mainpage.asp

United States
30 – 31 May
China and the Internet: Technology, Economy, and Society in Transition
Los Angeles, California
www.ascweb.usc.edu

26 – 29 June
Community Technology Centers’ Network (CTCNet)
12th Annual National Conference
Washington
www.ctcnet.org/conf2003, conf@ctcnet.org

7 – 11 July
O’Reilly & Associates’ Open Source Convention
Portland, Oregon
www.conferences.oreilly.com/oscon

1 – 2 August
International Conference on Politics & Information Systems: Technologies & Applications (PISTA’03)
Orlando, Florida
www.confinf.org/PISTA03

19 – 21 September
The 31st Telecommunications Policy Research Conference
Arlington, Virginia
www.tprc.org/tprc03/2003.htm, grosston@stanford.edu

6 June
Freenetworks Conference 2003
Las Vegas, Nevada
www.con.freenetworks.org/cfp.phtml
fn_con@freenetworks.org

Australia

22 – 24 June
International Telecommunications Society’s Asia – Australasian Regional Conference
Perth
www.cbs.curtin.edu.au/research/ITS_Conference/ index.cfm

5 – 7 November
Information Technology in Regional Areas Conference
Queensland, Australia
itira.cqu.edu.au/2003
enquiries-itira2003@equ.edu.au

Netherlands

26 May
IICD Strategic Dialogue: Catalyzing ICTenabled Development: Whose Ownership, What Partnership?
The Hague
www.iicd.org pballantyne@iicd.org

9 September
6th Water Information Summit
Delft
www.irc.nl/news/wis6.html krukkert@irc.nl

15 September
Workshop on knowledge management for improved water resources management
Delft
www.irc.nl/news/wis6.html#workshop krukkert@irc.nl


Switzerland

12 – 18 October
ITU Telecom World 2003
Geneva
www.itu.int/WORLD2003/, telecominf@itu.int

10 – 12 December
World summit on the Information Society (WSIS) –
Geneva 2003
Geneva
www.itu.int/wsis/

Germany
14 July
Media use in Rural Development
Feldafing
Lucie.Bosotti@gtz.de

Greece

15 June
Information Systems Perspectives and Challenges in the Context of Globalization
Athens
www.aueb.gr/ifip-isglob03 akp@aueb.gr

30 June
Computers and Advanced Technology in Education
Rhodes
www.iasted.com/conferences/2003/greece/c402.htm
calgary@iasted.com

Hungary

20 – 24 May
The Twelfth International World Wide Web Conference
Budapest
www2003.org, www2003.org

Africa

15 – 16 May
GKP/ECA Second African Media Forum Africa Program
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
www.globalknowledge.org/gkps_portal/index.cfm

30 May
IICD Technical Update Seminar: Open Source Software
UCI, Kampala, Uganda
www.iicd.org/capacity, ltonny@uci.aci.ug

12 May
Information for Governance: Third meeting of the UNECA Committee on Development Information
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
www.uneca.org/codi/

14 May
West African Computing, Telecommunications & Broadcasting Conference and Expo
Accra, Ghana
kwami@aitecafrica.com

1 June
The League of Arab States Regional Conference for the World Summit on the Information Society
Cairo, Egypt
www.itu.int/wsis/preparatory/other/cairo.html

12 – 17 June
Conference: Digital Opportunities for Africa – Community Multimedia Centres
Dakar, Senegal
www.ngocongo.org/ngomeet/dakar1.htm

12 October
HELINA 2003 Conference: ICTs in the Fight against HIV/AIDS in Africa
Johannesburg
www.uku.fi/english/organizations/helina-l lyn.hanmer@mrc.ac.za