http://www.apc.org/en/news/%252F26%2C31 News listing en http://www.apc.org/en/news/training/asiapacific/alternative-ict-trainers-find-their-voice-dhaka <div class="abstract"><span class="locality">DHAKA</span> (Ahmed Swapan Mahmud for APCNews) - <p>A two-day training was held by <span class="caps">VOICE</span> on March 18th and 19th 2008 in Dhaka on <a class="glossary-term" href="/en/glossary/term/259"><acronym title="information and communication technology: Technology and tools that people use to share, distribute, gather information and to communicate with one another, one on one, or in groups. ICTs can be grouped into three categories. Information technology uses computers, which have become indispensable in modern societies to process data and save time and effort. Telecommunications technologies include telephones (with fax) and the broadcasting of radio and television, often through satellites. Networking technologies, of which the best known is the internet, also extend to mobile phone technology, voice over IP telephony (VoIP), satellite communications, and other forms of communication that are still in their infancy. Style information: APC uses all small case for this term. We NEVER write &quot;Information and Communication Technologies&quot;. Note that there is the option of using this term in the singular (information and communication technology, abbreviated as ICT) or plural (information and communication technologies, abbreviated as ICTs). Source: APC">information and communication technologies</acronym></a> (<a class="glossary-term" href="/en/glossary/term/259"><acronym title="information and communication technology: Technology and tools that people use to share, distribute, gather information and to communicate with one another, one on one, or in groups. ICTs can be grouped into three categories. Information technology uses computers, which have become indispensable in modern societies to process data and save time and effort. Telecommunications technologies include telephones (with fax) and the broadcasting of radio and television, often through satellites. Networking technologies, of which the best known is the internet, also extend to mobile phone technology, voice over IP telephony (VoIP), satellite communications, and other forms of communication that are still in their infancy. Style information: APC uses all small case for this term. We NEVER write &quot;Information and Communication Technologies&quot;. Note that there is the option of using this term in the singular (information and communication technology, abbreviated as ICT) or plural (information and communication technologies, abbreviated as ICTs). Source: APC">ICTs</acronym></a>). 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.</p> </div> http://www.apc.org/en/news/training/asiapacific/alternative-ict-trainers-find-their-voice-dhaka#comments Training & ICTs Asia/Pacific Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:27:48 -0300 frederic 5802 at http://www.apc.org http://www.apc.org/en/news/training/asiapacific/pakistan-works-joining-creativecommons-network <div class="abstract"><span class="locality">KARACHI, PAKISTAN</span> (FN for APCNews, with files from Faoud Bajwa) - <p>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 &quot;Towards an Open Information Society in Pakistan&quot;, issues of copyrights, <a class="glossary-term" href="/en/glossary/term/974"><acronym title="intellectual property: The term &quot;intellectual property&quot; carries a bias that is not hard to see: it suggests thinking about copyright, patents and trademarks by analogy with property rights for physical objects. There is no such unified thing as &quot;intellectual property&quot; – it is a mirage. The term is at best a catch-all to lump together disparate laws. Non-lawyers who hear one term applied to these various laws tend to assume they are based on a common principle, and function similarly. Nothing could be further from the case. These laws originated separately, evolved differently, cover different activities, have different rules, and raise different public policy issues. If you want to think clearly about the issues raised by patents, or copyrights, or trademarks, the first step is to forget the idea of lumping them together, and treat them as separate topics. The second step is to reject the narrow perspectives and simplistic picture the term &quot;intellectual property&quot; suggests. Consider each of these issues separately, in its fullness, and you have a chance of considering them well. Style information: N/a Source: &quot;Did You Say &quot;Intellectual Property&quot;? It&#039;s a Seductive Mirage&quot; by Richard Stallman ">intellectual property</acronym></a> rights (<span class="caps">IPR</span>) and alternate forms of <span class="caps">IPR</span> were heavily discussed.</p> </div> Training & ICTs Asia/Pacific Mon, 02 Apr 2007 01:00:00 -0300 webmaster 1077 at http://www.apc.org