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Afghanistan launches international competitive tenders for two
additional GSM mobile licenses and local fixed service provider
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Internationl
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LONDON,
England (Reuters) -- If you think video games are engrossing
now, just wait: PlayStation maker Sony Corp. has been granted
a patent for beaming sensory information directly into the brain. |
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Running
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Localization
of Afghan Official Languages: |
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The
project will work on the computer terms and will find appropriate
terms in Afghan official languages. |
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Consultancies: |
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The
Association has always tried to be involved in activities, which
give life to the ICT in the country. |
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GIPI-Afghanistan: |
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The
aim of this project is to work with government and non-governmental
Tele-Communication and Internet stakeholders. |
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Upcoming
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Two
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The
campaign will address the awareness, training, on job training,
workshops, seminars, roundtables and conferences in the ICT
arena. |
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The
Computer Bio-Monthly Magazine Relaunch. |
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The
magazine, which publishes 6 times a year after each couple of
months, was launched in 2000 and circulated 4 issues in 2000
and 2001. |
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ICT and Public Sector:
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The development of modern welfare states
during the 20th century has led into a significant growth
of the public sector in all advanced industrial societies.
Nowadays about 30-50 % of the gross domestic product is
used by the government, the public sector takes care of
several vitally important functions in modern societies
- ranging from national defense to the maintenance of
kindergartens -, and the public sector employs about 10-30
% of the whole economically active labor force in these
societies. Firms cannot manage their everyday business
affairs without being in continuous contact with different
kinds of public authorities, and the same is true for
individual citizens who are using many kinds of public
services, who are obliged to keep the tax authorities
aware about their personal finances and whose incomes
in many cases consist mainly of social benefits paid by
the state.
If we look at the ICT and the Public sector in the canvas
of Afghanistan we see allot of gaps, which needs to be
filled by the initiatives from the government and private
sector. The biggest challenge Afghanistan is facing is
the lake of literate society. The three decade of war
and unrest has badly affected the society values in the
country, the educational system is totally damaged and
what we have at present is the 35 years old curriculum,
which is not in position to address the needs of the day.
In order to introduce and in-place an information based
society there are basic needs, which are the access networks
to the information and then once the access to information
is there then we need information to be available on those
networks and even if the information is there, some one
should be able make use of the information. Here we need
either the society to be able to understand and manipulate
information available in English language or provide them
information in their local languages.
In Afghanistan we have all the above mentioned problems,
there are no access networks, no online contents related
to the government, private or public sector and if there
is some those are in English language, which is of no
good use for the Afghan community.
In order to address these issues there are efforts on
both sides of the line, the government is working on allot
of programs in order to train the community on these new
technologies. There are community centers popping up in
different parts of the country, where community based
computer training and other literacy programs are in progress.
There are huge on going efforts for reducing the digital
gap and formulating the grounds for the Information based
Society in Afghanistan.
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