Table of Contents
Features

ICT Policy
Perspectives and challenges

Open source software
Strategic choice for developing countries
Francisco J. Proenza


ICT application for business development in rural Vietnam
Creating conducive policy environment
Vu Thi Thanh Huong


Policy study for rural Karnataka’s ICT projects
Integrating bits for a bigger bite
Rashmi Gopal


Community radio policy in India
Mixed signals of expectations
Sajan Venniyoor


Map policy of India
Policy for whom?
Ayon Kumar Tarafdar


ICT policy of Ethiopia
Changing positively
Gordon Feller


ICTD project newsletter

Columns

Editorial

ICT policy in Africa
Challenge for African governments

Portrait
The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)

Information technology act
Need for amending

Zooming in
Protecting child rights

Books received

Rendezvous

Euro-India ICT co-operation, 2-3 June, Mumbai, India
Development through co-operation

National Workshop on right to information act 2005, New Delhi, India
Preparing to implement successfully

Bytes for All
Disaster feature
Managing disasters

What’s on
In Fact
Policy panorama

News
Magazine >> June 2005 >> Rendezvous
 

What’s on

Botswana
31 August-02 September, 2005
World Information Technology Forum
Gaborone
www.witfor.org

Canada
27 June-02 July, 2005
ED-MEDIA 2005, Montreal
http://www.aace.org

24-28 October, 2005
E-Learn 2005
Vancouver, British Columbia
http://www.aace.org/conf/eLearn/call.htm

China
06 July, 2005
IEEE 3rd International Workshop on
Technology for Education in Developing Countries, Taiwan
http://ifets.massey.ac.nz/tedc2005

Finland
27-29 June, 2005
Landscapes of ICT and Social
Accountability, Turku
www.cs.utu.fi/ifip/WG9.2_Conference_2005

Italy
11-15 July, 2005
OSS2005
International Conference
on Open Source Systems
Genova
http://oss2005.case.unibz.it

27-28 October, 2005
Lesser Used Languages & Computer
Linguistics
Bolzano
http://www.eurac.edu/Org/LanguageLaw/Multilingualism/Projects/Conference2005.htm

Nigeria
25-28 July, 2005 Conference on Bridging the Digital and Scientific Divide, Abuja http://www.fmst-nnvs.com/

Republic of Korea
23-24 June, 2005 
WSIS Thematic Meeting on Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships for Bridging the Digital Divide, Seoul
http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/ni/wsisbridges

Slovenia
19-21 October, 2005
e-Challenges e-2005, Ljubljana
http://www.echallenges.org/2005

South Africa
04-07 July, 2005
8th World Conference on Computers in Education, Stellenbosch
www.wcce2005.org.za

24-26 August, 2005
CIRN2005
The 2nd Annual Conference of the
Community Informatics Research Network
Cape Town
http://www.cirn2005.org

Spain
06-08 July, 2005
7th ISKO-Spain Conference
Barcelona
http://www.bd.ub.es/isko2005

Switzerland
28 June-01 July, 2005
ITU WSIS Thematic Meeting on
Cybersecurity, Geneva
http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/cybersecurity

Tanzania
12-14 August, 2005
WYDI 2005
World Youth, Development and ICT
Conference
Arusha
http://www.wydi2005.tk

Tunisia
16-18 November, 2005
WSIS: World Summit on the
Information Society
Phase 2, Tunis
http://www.itu.int/wsis

United Kingdom
22-24 June, 2005
First International Conference on
e-Social Science
Manchester
http://www.itu.int/wsis

10-12 July, 2005
Euro Conference on Mobile Government
Sussex University
Brighton
http://www.icmg.mgovernment.org/europeanmg.htm

14-16 July, 2005
6th International Women into Computing Conference
Greenwich
http://www.wic.org.uk/conference

United States
14-17 July, 2005
EISTA ’05
3rd International Conference on Education and Information Systems: Technologies and Applications
Orlando, Florida
http://www.confinf.org/eista05/website/default.asp

23-25 September, 2005
33rd Research Conference on Communication, Information and Internet Policy
Arlington, Virginia
http://www.tprc.org/TPRC05/2005.htm