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TECHNOLOGY-INDIA: Communist State Plans IT Revolution
Computers are no longer the "devil's agents" for the Communist rulers of India's Kerala state, on the country's southern coast.INDIA: Govt’s Cheap Mobile Phone Worries Cellular Operators
The Indian government's plan to offer a cheap mobile phone service is facing stiff opposition from existing providers of the service who fear losing subscribers.COMMUNICATIONS-CUBA: Internet Overcomes Gov’t Resistance
Growing access to the Internet appears inevitable in Cuba, where until recently there was talk about limiting connectivity to avoid the risks posed by unlimited citizen access to the information available over the worldwide web.MEDIA-ZIMBABWE: Journalists Split Over Foreign Funding Of Media
Zimbabwean journalists are split over plans by the government to limit foreign funding of the private media.CUBA-US: Phone Links Cut-off Extends to Internet
A lawsuit between Cuba and the United States that led to a cut-off of direct phone links late last year has spread to the Internet, with Havana setting up a firewall to several voice transmission sites.MEDIA-ZIMBABWE: Hopes For Alternative Broadcasting Dashed
Hopes for those clamouring for alternative broadcasting were dashed this week when Zimbabwe's ruling party, ZANU-PF, passed a new law to maintain a lid on public broadcasting ahead of next year's presidential elections.MEDIA-TRINIDAD & TOBAGO: Paper Started by Journalists Folds
Five years after it was established by unemployed journalists, the weekly 'Independent' newspaper has folded, a victim of weak advertising among other problems.MEDIA-RUSSIA: TV Journalists Go On Strike To Protest Takeover Bid
A takeover bid by shareholders of Russia's only remaining national television channel (NTV) has prompted journalists to resort to high-profile protest action.TECHNOLOGY-MIDDLE EAST: Palestinians Escape To Cyberspace
After a night of listening to Israeli tanks fire at Palestinian targets in his hometown of Khan Yunis, Hazem Arkub is ready to make his daily escape into cyberspace.TECHNOLOGY-GERMANY: Lagging Behind In IT Expertise
Though Germany is hosting the world's largest computer and communications technology fair CeBIT, which is a window on the world of tomorrow, the country lags behind in skilled human resources to keep pace with rapid digitalisation.LABOUR/TECHNOLOGY: Romania Faces Severe Brain Drain
Romania is experiencing a severe brain drain as some of its most promising young minds are migrating to the West where Information Technology (IT) specialists are in high demand.RIGHTS-MEDIA: 24 Journalists Killed in 2000, 87 in Prison
¡ Two dozen journalists were killed in the line of duty last year, while another 87 found themselves in prison at year's end, the apparent victims of retaliation by governments which found their work too dangerous or too embarrassing, according to the latest in the annual series of reports on attacks on the press put out by the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).RIGHTS-MEDIA: 24 Journalists Killed in 2000, 87 in Prison
¡ Two dozen journalists were killed in the line of duty last year, while another 87 found themselves in prison at year's end, the apparent victims of retaliation by governments which found their work too dangerous or too embarrassing, according to the latest in the annual series of reports on attacks on the press put out by the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).MEDIA-NIGERIA: Employers Urged To Hire More Female Journalists
Female journalists in Nigeria have a role model. She is Dupe Ajayi-Gbadebo, the Managing Director of the Sketch Newspaper Group in Ibadan, 120 kilometres north of Nigeria's commercial capital, Lagos.TECHNOLOGY-AFRICA: Limitations Of IT As A Quick-Fix Solution
"The digital divide is the result of a social and economic gap," says African Progressive Communications (APC) Executive Director, Anriette Esterhuysen, pointing to the limitations of trying to use Information Communications Technology (ICT) as a quick-fix for the problems of the developing world.COMMUNICATION-CHINA: Youngsters Find Fun, Freedom on the Internet
Nearly 50 percent of all teenage cyber- surfers in the Chinese capital browse the Internet for study purposes, while the other half indulge in on-line games, chat sessions and even pornographic websites, official sources show.MEDIA-SOUTH AMERICA: Women Have Only Marginal Presence in News
Women are only marginally present in the news coverage of Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay, according to a study that monitored the leading print and broadcasting media in those four Southern Cone countries.COMMUNICATION-NIGERIA: Telephone Nightmare May Soon Be A Thing Of The Past
Nigeria's telecommunications nightmare may soon be a thing of the past, if the four companies that won the licences to provide Global System of Mobile (GSM) communications pay up by Friday.MEDIA/CRIME-MEXICO: From Alleged Assassin to TV Star in High Demand
Mario Bezares, a former sidekick on Mexican television comedies, has turned into a star in his own right since a judge removed charges of abetting the assassination of the popular TV host Paco Stanley, Bezares' former boss, allowing his release after 17 months in prison.CULTURE-VIETNAM: Willingly, Women Pay the Price of Beauty
First-time mother Van knows all about the benefits of breastfeeding, and even the ban on powdered milk advertisements has not escaped her notice.MEDIA-ZIMBABWE: Bombing of Printing Press Frightens Journalists
Journalists in Zimbabwe are living in fear of attack after Sunday's bombing of a printing press of a newspaper critical of the government, and of a brutal attack on a driver working at a state-controlled newspaper.« Previous Page — Next Page »
Thousands of microfinance institutions serve tens of millions of the world's poor, through massive operations in rural South Asia to fledgling enterprises in West African towns. This small-scale loan movement aimed at alleviating poverty can offer life-changing potential for people who would otherwise find it difficult to obtain loans from the traditional banking sector. But microcredit is not a miracle solution to ending global poverty. If high interest rates prevail, putting recipients at risk of repeat borrowing and cycles of debt, microfinance can also have unintended consequences. IPS tracks the spread of microcredit and its impact across the global South.
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