Recently District Information and Documentation center(DIDC) and Nepal Rural Information Technology Development Society(NRIDS) jointly organized a technical program regarding the establishment of community Information Center (CIC) in every villages of Syangja District. President of NRIDS Mr. Sudip Aryal presented the ongoing activities of NRIDS to aware ICT in the rural areas of Nepal. There are currently eight CIC’s in Syangja District. We are planning to extend this activities to all the villages of Syangja District. Mr. Aryal handed over the overal plan document regarding Rural transformation of Syangja District by establishing community information center (CIC) NRIDS has been working for ICT Development of Syangja District for more than three years. The participant of the meeting were Information Officer- Mr. Tanka Nath Lamsal and Sub-computer Operator Mr. Parashuram Adhikari. We will be updating about the information revolution initiave to transform Syangja with the help of ICT soon.

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The State Information Technology (IT) Mission has begun giving free computer training to Government employees. About 2,000 police officers in Malappuram district will get training in the first phase of the programme, being conducted here in association with Akshaya.

Each of the five lakh Government staff in the state of Kerala will get 40 hours of computer training over three years. The pilot phase of training will cover 38,000 Government employees working in different departments in Malappuram district.

As much as Rs.1.69 crore has already been transferred to Akshaya in Malappuram for the mega training project under the National e-Governance Plan (NeGAP). Computer training has been made mandatory for police officers in view of Malappuram becoming an e-district. It will soon be made mandatory for other Government employees in Malappuram.

The training is estimated to cost the Government Rs.450 per employee. The IT training course would cover operating system, word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, computer hardware, Internet and Malayalam typing.

Source:

http://www.hindu.com/2007/07/02/stories/2007070258300400.htm

The State Information Technology (IT) Mission has begun giving free computer training to Government employees. About 2,000 police officers in Malappuram district will get training in the first phase of the programme, being conducted here in association with Akshaya.

Each of the five lakh Government staff in the state of Kerala will get 40 hours of computer training over three years. The pilot phase of training will cover 38,000 Government employees working in different departments in Malappuram district.

As much as Rs.1.69 crore has already been transferred to Akshaya in Malappuram for the mega training project under the National e-Governance Plan (NeGAP). Computer training has been made mandatory for police officers in view of Malappuram becoming an e-district. It will soon be made mandatory for other Government employees in Malappuram.

The training is estimated to cost the Government Rs.450 per employee. The IT training course would cover operating system, word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, computer hardware, Internet and Malayalam typing.

Source:
http://www.hindu.com/2007/07/02/stories/2007070258300400.htm

After more than a decade of conflict, Nepal’s government took historic steps toward democracy by adopting an interim constitution earlier this year and establishing a transitional parliament to involve more parties in the decision-making process.

Nepal’s post-conflict process provides an opportunity to advance women’s leadership, foster democratic culture and create new policy frameworks, governing structures and institutions that support women and their families.

CEDPA/Nepal is working to advance the leadership and advocacy skills of Nepalese women to ensure that they can shape and lead post-conflict efforts.

More than 20 young women joined CEDPA/Nepal from July 22-25 for a workshop on What to Expect in Peace and Transition. The workshop outlined the political processes that occur after conflict has ended, and ways women can engage in these processes to advance women's leadership.

Participants represented community organizations that advance women’s lives, but had not directly engaged in peace building or post-conflict efforts.

The participants learned to think about ways they can take advantage of the political opportunities that open up for women in post-conflict settings. Sessions focused on constitutional reform, legislative advocacy and other opportunities to engage in governance.

“It is vital that women take advantage of the window of opportunity that occurs post conflict,” said Rebecca Sewall, CEDPA’s senior technical advisor of democracy and governance. “Women must make sure that the constitutional drafting process includes women and that the new constitution protects and promotes their rights - if not, they may never get another chance to change the constitution.”

The young women leaders left the workshop with increased self-confidence and heightened awareness of their own leadership styles and advocacy skills; tools for improved program design in democracy and governance; linkages with donors, networks, partners and CEDPA staff and alumni; and more effective communication and fundraising skills.

Source: CEDPA

The parliamentary committee has directed the Nepal Telecommunication Authority (NTA) to provide cellular mobile service at the same rate all over the country and also open Internet phone (VOIP) service for all, Kantipur Daily reports.

The meeting of the Environment, Communication and Technology committee of the interim parliament held Sunday gave the directives stressing on making telecommunication service more accessible to the people in rural areas.

MP Raghuji Panta, a member of the committee, said they asked Nepal Telecom to provide telephone services at the same rates all over the country by doing away with mobile roaming and STD charges for now, to provide those service in local rates.

“The NTA and telecom are positive on making all telephone calls (inside the country) local after doing the same with long distance mobile phones,” he told Kantipur Daily.

Interim parliament lawmaker Panta said after the government opens internet phone (VOIP) service, the telecommunication service Magsasay Prize winner Mahabir Pun has been operating in the remote areas would get legitimacy. “Telemedicine, long distance education…this would be useful for everything,” he said adding, “nobody can stop fast emerging technology, we only have to regulate it by formulating laws.”

The committee has reached the conclusion of consulting and taking the advice of Pun, telecommunication expert Binay Kumar Kasaju and Gorbazar Upadhyaya on the law to be formulated in the telecommunication field and immediately open this kind of service.

Source: www.nepalnews.com Aug 20 07

Nuwakot, July 30: Strange it is. Now, you do not require any mobile charger to charge your mobiles. Only there is need to use green leaf of peepal tree and after some time your mobile will get charged.
No soon the people came to learn this development, they tested it and found encouraging results. If your mobile has been discharged and you are inside a jungle then you need not to use any charger. You Should pluck two peepal leaves and your work would be done.
It is very good idea and easy to charge your mobile. You would have to open your mobile battery and connect it with peepal leaf. After that without shaking mobile set you should set the battery in your mobile set. After some time your mobile would be charged.
Though it is unbelievable but as soon as the residents of Chitrakoot came to know about the discovery they could not believe the news. But when they saw it practically then the incident proved true.
Now hundreds of mobile holders are using this technique and charging their mobiles.
Several persons including Sushil Kumar Shukla, Santosh Verma, principal of Mahatma Gandhi School, Raj Karan Patel, Shyam Patel, Shekhar Dwivedi, Pramod Gupta, Manager of Gayatri temple, RN Tripathi proved the incident true.
Whereas according to the botanists, it is just changing mutual energy into electrical energy power can be saved in battery. Similarly, it is also possible. They said that it is the subject of research.
Please Send your Comments and feedbacks if you have any knowledge regarding this!
Source: http://www.centralchronicle.com