First ICT Weekly Newspaper in Sudan published by Sudan ISOC Chapter

Sudan Internet Society (Sudan ISOC Chapter)has successfully published its First issue of a weekly newspaper focusing on information technology and internet .

After many moths of preparations Sudan Internet Society "Sudan ISOC Chapter" has published the first issue of it's "ICT" newspaper on Monday 22th October 2007 , ICT is the first Sudanese Free Weekly newspaper focusing on Information and Communications Technologies issues , "ICT" main objective is to creating awareness among the ordinary Sudanese citizens towards the importance of ICT in the soci-economic development, ICT is distrubited free of cost to the readers . ICT is targeting a mass audience, 30,000 copies is weekly printed with a collaboration with a leading Sudanese daily newspaper. A web site has been created for ICT newspaper "www.ict.sd" and an electronic version of the newspaper is published every week, the web site contain interactive tools like pools and forums . ICT is managed by a group of interested Sudan Internet Society members with support of 2 journalist from AL Ahdath newspaper . Sudan ISOC is working to attract funding and support for Telcom operators and internet service providers "ISPs" in Sudan "e.g in the form of newspaper advertisements" inorder to sustain and support the project . Reference : The Internet Society of Sudan is dedicated to identifying and surfacing the potential effective and efficient applications of the Internet throughout the Sudanese community. It is to provide support and information on all Internet related-issues in Sudan to enable individuals, businesses, professionals, and organizations achieve their goals more effectively. Web : www.isoc.sd

By: Mohamed EL Bashir, Sudan ISOC on: Wed 31 of Oct., 2007 21:46 UTC