Andrew Garton, a visual media adviser with a background in community media who has been involved with Engagemedia, says it is often easier for cyber artists to establish themselves and their art within some of the smaller online communities rather than "brace the swamp that is YouTube". Read the full article in The Australian.

Reports say work has begun on the East African Submarine Cable System (EASSy), a submarine cable designed to boost Africa's bandwidth by 2010.

Reaching students by reaching teachers and making a positive difference to students. World Links Arab Region was established to operate programs in any of the 22 members of the league of Arab States and in conjunction with youth throughout the world.

For the first time in Bangladesh a national workshop on Community Radio Awareness is held on 02-04 March 2008 at Bangladesh Open University (BOU) campus jointly arranged by Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication(BNNRC) and Development Research Network (D.Net) in collaboration with Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA) of Commonwealth of Learning(COL) and Bangladesh Open University(BOU). The workshop took place at the Media Centre in Bangladesh Open University at Gazipur, Dhaka.

Bangladesh as a state is gradually going out of reach from the rural poor in the impact of the globalisation. It is being difficult to have the state to be heard to the poor. The opinion sharing with the state is being harder day by day as well for them

The Wall Street Journal reports Shahzad Ahmed from APC-member Bytes for All as saying: "People are putting a lot of material against Musharraf and the government on YouTube, and the government has been trying to find a reason to block this Web site," in an article by Jane Spencer. Read How a System Error in Pakistan Shut YouTube

King's Party kicked out... Voter's anger disgraced Musharraf... Shocking results in Pakistan... If embarassed Musharraf had any honor, he should have resigned by now... BUT he will not...

There had never been such an opposition for Mush in the past.

21 people have lost their lives today in one of the most bloodiest elections ever in Pakistan’s history. Around 80 are injured. Polling ended about half an hour ago at its scheduled time 5 p.m. Votes are now being counted.

Earlier it was "Go Musharraf Go" ring tones and lots of funny audio/video clips and now mass SMS campaign from the mainstream civil society organizations, mobilizing the people of Pakistan against the dictator and requesting to not to go for votes. Essentially this stand is backed by proper reasoning.

As per constitution, being the symbol of federation, the President of Pakistan should not support or align with any political party... But hegemony of these dictators know no rules. Since the dictator is indispensable for the country, so is his party. People are right in concluding that the voting process has no meaning.

A violent night passed, and a frightening day seemingly full of bloodshed is upon us. Today is election day in Pakistan.

Civil society here is united in its demands. We want independent judiciary, release and reinstatement of all the deposed judges, release of political and civil rights activists, independent election commission and army should quit the government.

My Second Home, Salamieh Telecentre
ICTs4D Rural women with Disabilities

Roza Al-Yazji a Twenty-two years old girl, ranking the third amongst four brothers, She was born and suffered from many health problems, including speech disorder and learning disabilities. At the beginning, her parents noticed that case. But when she reached the age of sixteen, her parents could see her delay in speech and learning, balance disorder when she walked.

An interactive online resource for everyone concerned with improving ICT access for people with disabilities has been launched.

Few days back Shidhulai Sawnirvar Sangstha filed a defamation case against

In order to facilitate the preparation of radio programs for the reinforcement of the capacities of women involved in small business, that the Multi Media Resource Kit (MMRK) was conceived and elaborated by PROTEGE QV (http://www.protegeqv.org) under the auspices of the Commonwealth Connects Programme (http://www.commonwealthconnects.net ).

Frederick Noronha, of APC member organisation BytesforAll, was crowned Outstanding Participant at the recent Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICTD) Community workshop in Auroville, India.

There are more than a billion internet users worldwide, and the number is set to double within the next ten years. What will the next billion users mean to the Internet itself? How will it affect the network, the technology, the computer software industry, access to knowledge, and our environment?

As you might be aware of, GK3 is happening smack bang in the middle of a strange moment in Malaysia. We are anticipating our next elections sometime very soon. A Coalition on Free & Fair Elections (BERSIH - meaning 'clean' in Malay) was formed, and organised a peaceful demonstration on this issue. This demonstration sort of catalysed a series of events which is resulting in rapid arrests of communication rights advocates & independent media journalists, opposition party members, civil and political rights activists and BERSIH coalition members. This morning, 26 people were arrested for trying to hand over a memorandum to the parliament. There was massive road blocks on all the routes into the city, and riot police trucks along the parliament route.