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News: Training & ICTs, Asia/Pacific
Alternative ICT trainers find their VOICE in Dhaka
DHAKA (Ahmed Swapan Mahmud for APCNews) -
A two-day training was held by VOICE on March 18th and 19th 2008 in Dhaka on information and communication technologies (ICTs). Online media and communication such as blogs and digital photography were expored. The creation, editing, optimisation and transferral of media for the web were of prime interest to the participants from non-profit organisations.
Pakistan works to joining the CreativeCommons network
KARACHI, PAKISTAN (FN for APCNews, with files from Faoud Bajwa) -
Soon after the launch of the CreativeCommons.org licensing programme for India, to the west, neighbouring Pakistan is working to get the same moving too. During a two-day workshop in Lahore, Pakistan, entitled "Towards an Open Information Society in Pakistan", issues of copyrights, intellectual property rights (IPR) and alternate forms of IPR were heavily discussed.
