Voice of South

Riya, Afia and Kulsum are all six year olds and very excited about their first time in school. The three shy, giggly girls shout out the Bangla alphabets from their shiny new books in unison with the rest of the class. Their tattered clothes and dirty faces cannot take out the thrill they wait for [...]

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The Shilpa Sayura project, initiated under the Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka’s (ICTA) e-Society Development Initiative gained international recognition last week when it won an i4d award at the eINDIA 2007 Conference in New Delhi, India.
Shilpa Sayura was among seven ICT-based projects that won i4d Awards, for their contribution in the areas [...]

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Author: Mohammad Kawsar Uddin, From Nepal
A Nepali from the remote Myagdi district, Mahabir Pun, has been awarded the Ramon Magsaysay 2007 for his outstanding contribution to community leadership. He won Asia’s premier prize for his innovative application of wireless computer technology in Nepal, bringing progress to the remote mountain, connecting Nangi village to the global [...]

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The Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA) today established its 400th Nenasala (Tele-centre)  at the Colombo District Secretariat. The Chief Guest at the event is Hon. Minister Karu Jayasuriya.
The setting up of this Nenasala is aimed at providing visitors with services such as Internet access, computer access, telephone calls, scanning and photo [...]

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Tele-centres are opening up communication-challenged areas in Sri Lanka. Rs. 6 million package initiative to create 20 Internet ‘Nenasalas’ in the island nation, part of plan to create 1,000 centres by 2008.
The problems posed by domestic strife has not distracted Sri Lankans from trying to bridge their own ‘digital divide’ and opening up the more [...]

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Begum Hamida Siddique Collegiate School (BHSCS) is located at village Boria 10 km from Kushtia town. There was no high school within 6 km area of this village and no education for the girls before 1995 the school was established. The school has now been enjoying computer facility from 1998 and a computer course was [...]

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More than 142,000 households in Nepal will get long-awaited access to electricity thanks to the implementation of the Nepal Micro Hydro Project for which an emission reductions purchase agreement (ERPA) was signed on Friday, June 29. This is the second greenhouse gas emission reduction project in Nepal, executed by the Alternative Energy Promotion Centre (AEPC), [...]

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SLC is the most excepted examination for Nepalese to get release from School life. SLC means School Leaving Certificate examination. As a student, learning about results are the most anxious moments in life. When the result is of SLC examinations, the issue becomes more serious.
How would anyone feel, if s/he have to wait for weeks [...]

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In many third world countries, where bank branches are few and far between, the development that finally may make financial services practical for the rural poor fits in the palm of a hand.
Mobile devices like cellphones have the potential to effectively bring financial markets to the countryside, allowing banks and other lenders in urban areas [...]

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Sitting in a tiny water mill, popularly known as a ‘ghatta’ in Nepalese, 65-year-old farmer Ram Sharma waits for his customers to come with their wheat and maize to grind flour for a small fee. Sharma built his ‘ghatta’ two years ago after he lost all his farmland and property in flash floods that devastated [...]

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