A new website, aimed at improving the visibility of southern NGOs in the Internet has been launched.

SANGONeT, in association with LINK Centre at the University of the Witwatersrand, is offering a certificate course designed to promote computer literacy.

In an attempt to accelerate service delivery,government has set aside R2,7-million in foreign donor funds for Amatole District municipality. The funding will be used to unlock municipalities economic development opportunities.

Attorney-General, Amos Wako, was on 23rd April accused of harbouring mischief by re-introducing amendments to the Books and Newspapers Act contradicting his stance of encouraging the media to be self-regulating.

There was bitter reaction on 24th April to the probability of Parliament passing a Bill seeking to control the media. The Statutes Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill 2001 went through the crucial second reading, where MPs debated its advantages and disadvantages.

OneWorld, the online human rights and sustainable development network, has launched OneWorld Radio (www.oneworld.net/radio), a new portal offering services and features for broadcasters and NGOs.

At this Media Summit, while we look at the N12 billion the Media will spend on advertising and promoting Corporate Nigeria, we should look critically at the message. It is no longer okay to ape foreign advert strategies without solving our own local problems or without a thought to improving society.

This week at the Commonwealth conference titled "Parliament and Media" where the two discussed ways of cooperation in Cape Town, minister in the presidency Essop Pahad accused the media of "selective morality" by reporting media attacks in Africa and not in Israel.

The National Assembly is yet to work on the controversial Media Commission Bill that has raised concerned from media practitioners.

The World Summit on the Information Society Executive Secretariat is pleased to announce the first edition of the WSIS Newsletter which will be published approximately four times per year.

Journalists covering president Yoweri Museveni’s public functions will soon regain the opportunity to take photographs of, film and make audio recordings.

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The Soweto Electricity Crisis Committee (SECC) has experienced dramatic developments in its struggle for electricity in recent months. First, the SECC tasted victory when Eskom temporarily suspended electricity cut-offs. Then it faced renewed attack in the form of the government’s Service Delivery Framework. Earlier this month, the organisation went through a period of consolidation at its first conference.

Madagascar's rival presidents, Didier Ratsiraka and Marc Ravalomanana, held separate late-night talks Tuesday in Senegal as President Abdoulaye Wade and other African leaders urgently tried to prevent the political stalemate turning into full-scale war.

Africa is being ripped off - to the tune of some $500m a year - simply for hooking up to the World Wide Web, say Kenyan internet company chiefs.

New Delhi, Apr 12 (IANS) The team thatd eveloped the Simputer, a hand-held device aimed at taking the Internet to the rural masses in India, has been conferred the first Dewang Mehta award for innovation in IT, it was announced Friday.

The editor of Zimbabwe's only private daily newspaper has been arrested after publishing a story that last month's election results were falsified, his lawyer said.

Billionaire internet tycoon Mark Shuttleworth's trip into space will the first African and the second tourist in space, will be one of three cosmonauts launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the International Space Station (ISS), where he will spend eight days.

The Gambian parliament will debate on 24 April, a media bill that would empower a new National Media Commission to enforce a code of conduct for the media, register journalists and judge complaints from aggrieved parties. The Gambia Press Union has expressed concern over the new bill. "The impending enactment of the National Media Commission Act [is] not only quite draconian but a visible threat to press freedom in this country," the president of the union, Demba Jawo, told IRIN on Tuesday.

Your Excellency: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is gravely concerned about the safety of 13 Eritrean journalists currently in the custody of your government.