Digital Divide

NY Times: Casting a Wider Net

Submitted by admin on Tue, 01/07/2008 - 11:45.

Several leading lights of the Internet world believe that access to broadband is a civil right, like water, roads and sewage treatment, and have renewed their call for making such access a national priority. To further their goal, they have introduced a Web site, internetforeveryone.org.

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IPS: Mobile Phones Soar in Internet-Starved Africa

Submitted by admin on Thu, 26/06/2008 - 05:46.

The beleaguered African continent continues to lag far behind the rest of the world in battling poverty, hunger and HIV/AIDS, but it is making dramatic progress in the field of information and communications technologies (ICTs).

The technological advances, however, are limited primarily to mobile phones.

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ITU: African Telecommunication/ICT Indicators 2008: At a crossroads

Submitted by admin on Thu, 26/06/2008 - 05:41.

The number of mobile subscribers has increased dramatically over the last few years. In 2007, the African continent added over 60 million new mobile subscribers and mobile represents some 90 percent of all telephone subscribers, and mobile penetration in the region is close to 30 percent .

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Developing TELECOMS

Submitted by admin on Tue, 24/06/2008 - 10:47.

Developing TELECOMS is the free access web site and email newsletter devoted to building public ICT networks in developing and emerging markets. It provides information on the products, technologies and strategies needed to raise teledensity and reduce the digital divide.

Developing TELECOMS is a global information resource where ICT networking professionals keep up to date with news and technology and find solutions to communications challenges in developing and emerging markets.

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ICTD2009: 3rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development

17/04/2009 - 09:00
19/04/2009 - 00:00

ICTD spans information and communication technologies (ICT) and their role in global socio-economic development. Every sector is involved – governments, academia, small start-ups, large corporations, inter-governmental organizations, and non-profits and non-governmental organizations. In spite of the tremendous energy and resources behind these projects, scientifically sound research in this space is just beginning to emerge: What is the actual impact of ICTD projects? What novel technology is required to meet development needs?

Location(s)

Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar Campus
Education City
Doha
Qatar
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Nokia Siemens Networks Village Connection

Submitted by admin on Thu, 12/06/2008 - 08:17.

Nokia Siemens Networks Village Connection is an innovative solution which enables operators to capture the rural market potential by offering voice and sms service to villages with relatively low investment.

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The Economist: Halfway there - How to promote the spread of mobile phones among the world's poorest

Submitted by admin on Thu, 12/06/2008 - 08:07.

SOMETIME in the next few months, the number of mobile phones in use will exceed 3.3 billion, or half the world's population. No technology has ever spread faster around the globe: the mobile phone took less than two decades to reach this degree of penetration. But the ever-restless wireless industry has already set its sights on getting the other half connected. Two recent reports analyse how to add the “next billion” to the subscriber list.

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Information Society Innovation Fund (ISIF Asia)

Submitted by admin on Thu, 05/06/2008 - 06:53.

The Information Society Innovation Fund (ISIF) is a grants program aimed at stimulating creative solutions to ICT development needs in the Asia Pacific region, placing particular emphasis on the role of the Internet in social and economic development in the region, towards the effective development of the Information Society throughout.

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IFIP WITFOR 2007 - ICT for Development and Prosperity, Edited by Satish Jha and Leon Strous

Submitted by admin on Wed, 28/05/2008 - 13:38.

Paying special attention to the needs of the developing countries and assisting them to derive optimal benefits from the application of Information and Communication technologies is one of the key elements of the mission of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). This has been reaffirmed in IFIP's decision in 2007 to make promoting digital equity as one of its strategic goals along with a resolve to create a global platform to move in that direction, by:

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MIT Tech Review: Long-Distance Wi-Fi

Submitted by admin on Thu, 20/03/2008 - 08:41.

ntel has announced plans to sell a specialized Wi-Fi platform later this year that can send data from a city to outlying rural areas tens of miles away, connecting sparsely populated villages to the Internet. The wireless technology, called the rural connectivity platform (RCP), will be helpful to computer-equipped students in poor countries, says Jeff Galinovsky, a senior platform manager at Intel. And the data rates are high enough--up to about 6.5 megabits per second--that the connection could be used for video conferencing and telemedicine, he says.

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