9th session of the UN Committee of Experts on Public Administration held on  19 April to 23 April 2010, New York had as one of the key issues 'Information and communications technology and gender  equality' on the agenda. FLACSO-Argentina and WIGSAT have prepared a presenation in which they stress, that ICT present today new opportunities and challenges for public administration to implement the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals.

The 1st Annual General Meeting of the European Centre for Women and Technology was held the 9th of October 2009 in Brussels. The ECWT that was set up during summer 2008 with 16 members has a bit more than a year later 44 member organizations  and some individual members.

E-Learn 2009 - World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, & Higher Education is an international conference organized by the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE) and co-sponsored by the International Journal on E-Learning.The E-Learn 2009 conference which will be organized the 26-30th of October in Vancouver, Canada serves as a multi-disciplinary forum for the exchange of information on research, development, and applications of all topics related to e-Learning in the Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education sectors.

Among the applications selected by the expert group of the EU Commission for the eGovernment Conference in Brussels on the 29-30th of November Austria & Germany top the list with 6 applications each, closely followed by Belgium, Italy & Sweden with 5 applications.

The European Investment Bank (EIB) is to provide a 400 million euro eight year loan facility to the Swedish telecommunications equipment manufacturer Ericsson for research and development (R&D) activities in its centres of excellence in the EU and central Europe. Through its R&D activities, Ericsson has contributed towards to definition of global technology standards and the development of the telecommunications sector in Europe into one of its leading industries.

The European Commission has presented a new revised proposal for regulation of a 'dot eu' top level domain name, incorporating the comments from the European Parliament. This should mean that the registry to operate the name is operational by the beginning of 2002.