October 25, Thiruvananthapuram. SPACE Conducted a series of one-day workshops on introduction to GNU/Linux for the staff of Doordarshan at Dooradarshan Kendra,TVM.The Workshop was organised by Assocation of Radio and Television Engineering Employees (ARTEE)
October 18- Technopark,Thiruvanthapuram. SPACE conducted a training in Asterisk PBX Management System at Indian Institute of Inforamtion Technology and Management-Kerala(IIIM-K)for their systems personal. Earlier SPACE's techinical team had sucessfully deployed asterisk there.
October 10, Kannur Azhikode Grama Panchayath can now boast of having a web portal of its own. A Joint project by SPACE, UNESCO, and AKSHAYA , SPACE provide the technical help for the portal. Named,'Ente Gramam Azhikode', the initiative envisaged to be a citizen contributed, locally maintained web portal that give detailed informations about the Panchayat .
October 10, Mahe SPACE's reach to students not only confined to technical Institutes. SPACE team conducted a 2-day training at MG Govt. Arts College, Mahe on Possibilities of Information Communication Technology and Free Software. The students participated in the meeting got hands- on training on Intenet and its wide spectrem of utilities.The feed back from the 30 students attended the training has encouraged SPACE to undertake further training sessions in the non techinical institutions of the State.
October 6, Thiruvanthapuram Journalism students of the Kerala University Campus got trained by SPACE in the use and application of New Media. A 2-day session conducted at SPACE dealt with web based media paractices. 18 students got trained in the day. SPACE plan to organise more of such training with different media schools of the State.
October 2, Thripunithura The youth wing of NSS Karayogam, Irimpanam, spent a day learning about Free software. The participants aged between 15 to 25, also got introduced to the possibilities of ICT, particularly of Internet. The latest development in the sphere of internet based services were highlighted, which will help the participants in their accademic and professional life.
SPACE jointly with United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Alakal Media Society organising a one day Consultation on Community Media and Development at Hotel Chaithram, Thampanoor, Trivandrum on Friday, 7th September 2007, 10:00 am - 4:30 pm Community Media, especially Community Radio, has been an important instrument for empowering local communities in different parts of the world.
The second phase training on ICT for the Visually Challenged Master Trainers was conducted at the Insight Centre from August 11-14. The training sessions were handled by Mr. Krishnakant Mane from TIFR, Mumbai and had a participation of 22 M aster Trainers from across kerala. The Centre was visited by Hon. Chief Minister Shri V. S. Achuthanathan, IT Secretary Mr. Jyothilal, DPI Mr.
SPACE organized a talk on Asterisk - The Software PBX by Mr. Raj Mohan. who has been working on various PBX platforms for the past 6 years and is currently associated with SPACE. The talk was held at the Institute of Engineers hall, Vellayambalam on the 1st of August Asterisk is a Free/Open Source, fully digital implementation of the traditional PBX, with numerous powerful features.
SPACE jointly with Akshaya project of Kerala State IT Mission is organizing a series of events to train local organizations on content building and knowledge archival. The first programme to train the master trainers was held at Malappuram, where the master trainers got hands on training in building websites with content management systems like Wordpress.
