VM and Anniruddha discuss the plan for the book, and its design… some months ago.

Coverage from the IBNLive site.

Coverage in the Deccan Chronicle (with cover).

A press note about a new anthology on writing from Goa.

A Survival Guide to Social Media and Web 2.0 Optimization: Strategies, Tactics, and Tools for Succeeding in the Social Web

The PAN E-Commerce Mall was showcased as an "E-Mall with a difference". It is where a group of 18 development organizations from 8 Asian countries are participating in the design and development of a shared platform for setting up their shops, so that customers may buy from across shops in different countries, across multiple categories of products (books, handicraft, videos) and end up with only one check-out point. … PAN e-commerce partners are experimenting with their new role as "merchants" just like in the business world. As they make the transition from traditional ways of disseminating their intellectual outputs to maintaining online stores, they are managing change by reorganizing institutional resources and developing their ICT skills. For them, E-commerce becomes real with the thrill of seeing customers' orders in their mail boxes, and when they receive a cheque from PAN for their sales proceeds.

On May 6th 1997 the first "Ping" command – a small packet of data used to verify a network connection – was sent from a computer in Cambodia to another in Singapore. Its acknowledgment heralded the arrival of Cambodia's first full Internet service, CamNet.

Dangbo Dingbo is the customary way to start off a folk-tale in Bhutan and roughly translates in English to "once upon a time". It's also an appropriate way to open a story on how Bhutan first got connected to the Internet after all, the Internet is a modern folk-tale in itself.

Access to research and scholarship is one of the critical development issues in overcoming the often-noted "knowledge gap." While the digital divide is being addressed at a number of levels with the spread of infrastructure, there needs to follow with no less concern the development of systems that increase the global circulation of knowledge, and that contribute to the development of local and national research capacities. Critical to the development of those capacities is the accessibility of research and scholarship. This proposed project is intended to improve the accessibility of scientific literature published in Indian journals by introducing an indexing system. This collaboration builds on the development of the UBC Public Knowledge Project's Open Journals Systems (OJS) which manages and publishes peer-reviewed journals….

http://www.idrc.ca/reports/ev-140013-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html The new International Research Chairs Initiative aims to increase the impact of research and the vibrancy of research communities in developing countries. Teams consisting of a Canadian and a developing world researcher are taking aim at important social and scientific challenges, and in the process are working together to train a new generation of specialists.

A group of leading scientists from the developing world who specialize in health, the environment, and information technology hopes the new research program that has paired them with Canadian counterparts will help boost research capacities in their home countries.

Global Downturn and G-20: Does India Matter? Indian economist Dr. Rajiv Kumar
will be in Ottawa on June 10 as part of The India Lectures organized by
Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC). In his
presentation, "Global Downturn and G-20: Does India Matter?" Dr. Kumar will
discuss whether the G-20 can emerge as an effective forum for global
governance, as well as India's possible role in the G-20 process or in other
fora.

Welcome to the networking site for the PAN All Partners 2009 Conference, a key dialogue with PAN partners for feedback and formative evaluation at the mid-point of PAN's programming life-cycle.

Use this network to find and connect with people at the conference!
Moderator: Phet Sayo

Location: Penang, Malaysia

June 12 – June 14

Video on a cultural centre in Margao, Goa, India

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FOSS.in, an event in Bangalore.

Mailing list, broadcast-only news and features

On LinkedIn

On newsrack.in (an Indian, desi 'google alerts' … only better )

Artists : Music from Goa. Some free downloadable MP3s too.

Upwardly Mobile: An Indian startup thinks that the right software can make cheap phones a financial lifeline to hundreds of millions.

More of JoeGoaUK's delicacies from Goa.

JoeGoaUK's sweet dishes from Goa.

A carreira from Colvale, in the early 1970s. Photo AGE Coutinho.

Judi (Simran) Silva is the author of Tangible Dreams, Journey into the Soul, Thumbprints in the Stream of Time and co-author of My India … Passages Through Time (script and novel).

Muziboo is a growing community of musicians from the world over. We share our original music and covers to get better at making music. All your songs, your band, group memberships, and your comments are listed on your profile page. You can embed your songs in your blog and soon on Orkut and Facebook.

Sean D'Souza is the driving force behind "PsychoTactics", and an expert on using an understanding psychology to dramatically increase sales. 15+ years ago, he joined Leo Burnett one of the world's largest ad agencies. The skills he learnt took Sean on the heady road of copywriting, writing TV commercials (and how to do them in 5 seconds), graphic design, cartoons and web design. The underlying synchronicity was the constant search to find ways to communicate in the simplest, most effective manner.

There’s just no other way to say it. Right now, many freelance writers are treading water, wondering where their next assignment will come from. Fortunately, I manage to stay pretty busy as a freelance writer. To be fair, I’ve been doing it since 1993, so I’ve weathered the ups and downs of the freelance writing life in most every type of economy.