News has come through that Google Earth Outreach is organising a series of capacity building events in Kampala and Nairobi.

APC’s women’s programme has started a really cool research project on sexuality and the internet.

It seems the efforts of people like Mr.Praveen Dalal are finally appreciated and have

Legal information is a very important for almost all the segments of a society. However, there is a dearth of Law portals and web sites in India.

We need your help your help in getting the word out about the Ushahidi
DRC page (http://drc.ushahidi.com). We are hoping to increase

Jayalakshmi Chittoor, from the Indian organisation i4d, was attending the Telecentre Leaders Forum and we met in the corridor. We had 15 minutes to talk about future collaboration and we ended up talking about the Film Festival, a initiative that shows how technology changes people’s lives through video. That’s GK3, the Global Knowledge Conference that officially starts tomorrow in Kuala Lumpur.

A Cambodian blogger asked recently
whether former King Norodom Sihanouk should be considered the country's
founding father of blogging.
He got no definitive answer.
Cambodian blog watchers say the 84-year-old monarch may not have known
he was blogging when he unveiled his Web site, updated daily by his
staff since 2002 with his views on national affairs, correspondence
with his admirers and news about his film-making hobby.

Citizens in China and Europe from the academia, NGO, companies, government met in Liège (Belgium) to exchange perspectives and discuss on the topic of Information Society and the Internet in China and Europe. The workshop on "IT systems on the age of the Internet" (4-5 October) was the first step of the China-Europe Forum (6-7 October).

A couple of weeks ago we blogged that workers employed in care homes in

north London (UK) were told by their employer -- a private company

called Fremantle -- that their wages were being cut by 30%, their hours

increased, their sick pay become a thing of the past, and their

pensions reduced, triggering an <a href="http://blog.apc.org/en/index.shtml?x=5197682">online campaign from LabourStart</a>

which was then taken offline following letters to LaborStart's internet

service provider from Freemantle. The campaign continues. Read this

update from LabourStart.