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ICT and research in DCs
by Mailing List Manager 06 Aug '03

06 Aug '03

Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 09:05:28 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Information for research in developing countries - Information Technology, a friend or foe? http://www.developmentgateway.org//ict/dg-contribute/item-detail?item_id=33… version_id=202274&from=alert This paper by Subbiah Arunachalam from M.S.Swaminathan Research Foundation discussses the influence of ICT on the researchers in developing countries. One of the author's conclusions states that "a concerted effort should be mounted to persuade philanthropic foundations ... Arun

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GENISIS Manual
by mujib rahiman 06 Aug '03

06 Aug '03

Hi all A manual in English for Genisis is now available at http://www.nsf.ac.lk/purna/genisisman.pdf. Genisis is a web authoring software to create webforms and scripts required to query cds/isis databases using BIREME's wwwisis. GenesisCD is available to create CD-ROM interface. with regards Mujib Rahiman ===== Bioinformatics Centre and Library Central Plantation Crops Research Institute P.O. Kudlu, Kasaragod - 671 124, Kerala, India Ph: 04994 - 232 974 URL: http://bioinfcpcri.org E-mail: bioinf(a)bioinfcpcri.org ________________________________________________________________________ Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo! Messenger http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/

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RE: [LIS-Forum] Do our Scientists deserve high bandwidths?
by Mailing List Manager 05 Aug '03

05 Aug '03

Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 07:09:18 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Dr Vyasamoorthy has raised a pertinent point and I like his frank expression of his views which might offend at least some of our colleagues in the labs! As it happens often, in ny given situation it is difficult to determine which is the cause and which is the effect. For a pretty long time, we were unable to provide decent infrastructure support to our scientists and doctoral students. It is not only in the provision of information; even in the provision of laboratory infrastructure (equipment, chemicals, reagents, etc.). Doing science under such circumstances, many of our scientists might have lost some of their enthusiasm. I believe that if we provide the proper environment (including facilities), there will be a change for the better. Especially, when there are low-cost options (providing information through open access and Internet, both of which are spreading fast and becoming cheaper), we should give them a try. Giving up is easy, but it can transform our country into a better place to live for us and our children. As a young scientist in a national laboratory, I often found it extremely difficult to be able to attend and speak at international conferences to which I was invited because of the attitude of officers who had the power to permit or disallow my participation in such meetings! But now things have changed. Arun

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Do our Scientists deserve high bandwidths?
by Mailing List Manager 04 Aug '03

04 Aug '03

Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 15:28:04 +0530 From: VYASAMOORTHY /IKP/HYD <Vyasamoorthy(a)icicikp.com> Dear Mr Arun & friends, I really wonder whether our scientists deserve (they may desire, though)such high bandwidth. In my opinion they are incapable of using even the meger internet bandwidth that they already have. Scientists in India were the first group of persons to enjoy internet based email via ERNET. I have not seen many scientists from India (Indians abroad are an exception) taking part in Newsnet newsgroups in any worthwhile manner. Most of the discussion fourums started enthusiastically die for want of participation. INFLIBNET Experts database, after having been in place for over a year does not have more than 12K profiles. This was based on a very good model of getting the database self-populated by the community. Compare it with Community of Science website. Recently a private firm in Bangalore sent out 3000+ email letters to Indian scientists - every one of whom is an author of some science paper or the other - asking them to try out free of charge some web based IT facility that would help them keep in touch with their colleagues: How many do you think responded? Not even one percent! My own experience in having organised JCCC@VIC has not been very encouraging -- there are no takers for this consortium effort. Others' experiences may be different but mine are sour. Regards Vyasamoorthy, P -----Original Message----- From: Mailing List Manager [mailto:mailman@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in] Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 2:58 PM To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Subject: [LIS-Forum] Competition spurs broadband in Europe (fwd) Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 09:03:57 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: Almost everyone in Belgium - at least 98% of them - have broadband access of 3Mbps or better! Up to six times faster than the service available in France or Britain. Where do we stand in India? Even our research scientists cannot boast of such bandwidth. Let us do something about it and quickly. Our scientists deserve it. Regards. Arun -Original Message----- From: Andy Carvin [mailto:acarvin@benton.org] Subject: Competition spurs broadband in Europe (fwd) Also from today's Benton headlines.... -ac COMPETITION SPURS BROADBAND IN EUROPE A new report from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development suggests that European countries that promote competition among telecom and cable providers show faster adoption of broadband Internet services. The report warned governments against propping up the telecom industry in exchange for broadband build-out. "Incumbent operators are using their economic influence on governments to say, 'If you are nice to us we will deliver broadband,' but what the OECD numbers show is that competition between operators is what delivers broadband," said Ewan Sutherland, director general of the Brussels-based International Telecommunications Users Group. Evidence shows that Germany, once the leader in broadband growth, has been overtaken by the more competitive environment in Belgium, where 98 percent of the country has access to at least 3Mbps service - up to six times faster than the transmissions available in France or Britain. The United States has fallen from 3rd to 10th in the OECD rankings, primarily because the prices and speeds offered by phone companies have not matched those offered by cable. Asian countries have used government subsidies to stimulate the markets have resulted in additional competition and lower prices, allowing the region to take the lead in broadband deployment. SOURCE: E-Commerce News; AUTHORL Jennifer L. Schenker http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/31231.html _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum

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Competition spurs broadband in Europe (fwd)
by Mailing List Manager 04 Aug '03

04 Aug '03

Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 09:03:57 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun(a)mssrf.res.in> Friends: Almost everyone in Belgium - at least 98% of them - have broadband access of 3Mbps or better! Up to six times faster than the service available in France or Britain. Where do we stand in India? Even our research scientists cannot boast of such bandwidth. Let us do something about it and quickly. Our scientists deserve it. Regards. Arun -Original Message----- From: Andy Carvin [mailto:acarvin@benton.org] Subject: Competition spurs broadband in Europe (fwd) Also from today's Benton headlines.... -ac COMPETITION SPURS BROADBAND IN EUROPE A new report from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development suggests that European countries that promote competition among telecom and cable providers show faster adoption of broadband Internet services. The report warned governments against propping up the telecom industry in exchange for broadband build-out. "Incumbent operators are using their economic influence on governments to say, 'If you are nice to us we will deliver broadband,' but what the OECD numbers show is that competition between operators is what delivers broadband," said Ewan Sutherland, director general of the Brussels-based International Telecommunications Users Group. Evidence shows that Germany, once the leader in broadband growth, has been overtaken by the more competitive environment in Belgium, where 98 percent of the country has access to at least 3Mbps service - up to six times faster than the transmissions available in France or Britain. The United States has fallen from 3rd to 10th in the OECD rankings, primarily because the prices and speeds offered by phone companies have not matched those offered by cable. Asian countries have used government subsidies to stimulate the markets have resulted in additional competition and lower prices, allowing the region to take the lead in broadband deployment. SOURCE: E-Commerce News; AUTHORL Jennifer L. Schenker http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/31231.html

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Articles on Knowledge Society
by farooque 31 Jul '03

31 Jul '03

one may get information on "knowledge society" at following urls. http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/ifactory/ksgpress/www/ksg_news/transcripts/druck… http://www.ilo.org/public/english/employment/skills/recomm/report/ch_1.htm http://www.ies.ubc.ca/events/transition/abst.html http://members.tripod.com/knownetwork/what.html http://members.tripod.com/knownetwork/articles/heralding.htm On Mon, 29 Jul 2002 prafulla(a)nisc.co.in wrote : >Dear All: > >I am looking for a couple of good articles (Web-based, >available >free)) which provide a good and authoritative introduction to >the >concept of Knowledge Society. I shall appreciate any pointers >on >them --------------------------------- Mohammed Farooque DRTC,Indian Statistical Institute 8th Mile Mysore Road Bangalore-560059 Tel-(080)8483975(hostel) 8483002 ext 495(lab) ---------------------------------- ___________________________________________________ Download the hottest & happening ringtones here! OR SMS: Top tone to 7333 Click here now: http://sms.rediff.com/cgi-bin/ringtone/ringhome.pl

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IndMED gets HON code certification
by Sukhdev Singh 31 Jul '03

31 Jul '03

The following information may be useful for the members of the forum. 1. "The European Commission has weighed in with its contribution to the growing body of standards and recommendations for online health and medical information. The document contains quality criteria for use by Member States, as well as public and private bodies, in the development of quality initiatives for health related web sites. Recognizing the need to protect its citizens, as well as the global customers of its online sector, the European Commission has taken a clear position on the need to maintain high standards for online health information. The report stops short, however, of proposing an EU-wide implementation for quality criteria, judging this to be impractical for the moment. HON participated actively in the development of the EU document, along with some sixty other delegations from government, industry, medical and consumers associations and academia. The result incorporates all eight principles of the HONcode condensed into six points with additional emphasis on accessibility, a hotly debated subject on both sides of the Atlantic. In effect, US Government requirements for domestic information providers may also influence decisions made in Europe." (http://www.hon.ch/HONcode/HON_CCE_intro.htm) 2. Indian Medlars Centre, has received the cerfication from the above mentioned "Health on Net (HON) Foundation" for its compliance with the HON code. This site is the First Government Indian health site and among select few Indian health sites to receive the certification.(http://indmed.nic.in). The certification may be verified from http://www.hon.ch/HONcode/Conduct.html?HONConduct932785 . 3. I would suggest to website administrators / evaluators to use best practises / standards for sites so that their reliability could be ascertained. Regards Sukhdev Singh BID, NIC HQs. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com

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Google India
by Shyam Prasad pujar 31 Jul '03

31 Jul '03

Dear Members, Google search engine is now available in Indian languages. It is available in Hindi, Telugu, Bengali and Marathi. Now when you type http://www.google.com at the URL address location you will be redirected to http://www.google.co.in. Default interface for India is Hindi, if you want to search using 'English' interface, click on 'Agrezi'. Regards, S.M. Pujar ********************************************************************** Shamprasad M. Pujar Assistant Librarian Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research Gen. Vaidya Marg, Film City Road Goregaon (East) MUMBAI-400 065 India %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% * Phone: (022) 28400919-21 Extn: 514 * * Fax: (022) 28402752 * * E-mail: pujar(a)igidr.ac.in * * URL: http://www.igidr.ac.in * %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

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medicine/pharma. information retrieval
by Shivendra Singh 30 Jul '03

30 Jul '03

Dear members, Where I can see about medicine/pharma. information retrieval system? Regards, Shivendra Singh National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education & Research Sector 67, S.A.S Nagar, Punjab - 160 062 , INDIA, Phone : 0172 214682-87, Ext. 2017 Fax : 0172 214692 Mobile: 9815526163 Home page: http://sshivendra.tripod.com E-mail: shivendra(a)niper.ac.in

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Regarding Website Hosting
by aravind llm shety 30 Jul '03

30 Jul '03

Dear Members, I am in search of free web servers for hosting a web site. Can anyone suggest me the sites of free web hosting servers. With Regards Arvind M Bhadrashetty Librarian Appa Institute of Engineering & Technology Gulbarga ___________________________________________________ Download the hottest & happening ringtones here! OR SMS: Top tone to 7333 Click here now: http://sms.rediff.com/cgi-bin/ringtone/ringhome.pl

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