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 Spanish citizens will have a legal right from 2011 to be able to buy broadband internet of at least one megabyte per second at a regulated price wherever they live, the country's industry
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Finland has become the first country in the world to declare broadband Internet access a legal right.
The move by Finland is aimed at bringing Web access to rural areas, where access has been limited.
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Egypt says it has begun registration for the first Arabic language Internet domain. The move is part of efforts to let users of non-Latin script have better access to the Web.
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Web addresses will expand beyond the Roman letters A-Z and digits 0-9 to Mandarin, Arabic, Hindi, Korean and other languages. This could have an Impact in the developing world where large population could not participate in the digital revolution due to language barrier.
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Every school classroom in the State is to get a laptop, software and a digital projector over the next three years under a €150 million plan to bring Irish schoolchildren “up to speed” with the digital revolution.
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Morocco recently adopted a national digital strategy aimed at expanding the use of information and communications technology (ICT) by the public, the government and businesses by 2013.
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Nokia Siemens Networks expects Budget 2010, scheduled to be tabled on Oct 23, 2009, will deliver much-needed investment in education.
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In a bid to strengthen emergency communications before impending natural disasters strike and to save more lives by better coordinating relief efforts in their aftermath, the United Nations has teamed up with two leading global satellite companies, the UN telecommunications agency announced.
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Information and communication technologies are vital to tackling climate change, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told a global forum that kicked off today in Geneva, urging participants to think of creative ways to use the latest technology to usher in a green economy.
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As more people ditch landline phones for mobiles, America’s regulators need to respond
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UNESCO: UNESCO and TAG-Org sign partnership agreement to build more inclusive knowledge societies in the Arab region
Submitted on رمضان 20, 1430.
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UNESCO and the Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Organization (TAG-Org), the Jordanian-based international business services company, signed a partnership agreement on Sunday in Paris to work together on the building of inclusive knowledge societies and on the promotion of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to support education, science and culture in the Arab region.
The agreement reflects the ... Read More
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The GSMA's Mobile Money Summit is timely in the light of several recent developments, all of which bring home the empowerment that mobile money can bring to those called the "unbanked."
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Developing Telecoms: East Africa - a major telecoms hub for the future?
Submitted on شعبان 19, 1430.
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Emerging markets in telecoms often start with a blank canvas: those developing these new markets can implement whichever telecoms strategy they wish: enter fibre cabling. Michael Schwartz looks at some very exciting fibre-optic developments in East Africa.
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UNESCAP: UN Joins Forces with Timor-Leste and Indonesia to Harness the Power of ICT for Development
Submitted on شعبان 12, 1430.
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National and local government officials from around Timor-Leste will be trained on the first two modules of the “Academy of ICT Essentials for Government Leaders“, focusing on linkages between ICT and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and ICT for development policymaking. The MDGs are a set of ambitious pledges made by world leaders in 2000 to eliminate extreme poverty and hunger, combat AID ... Read More
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Researchers have developed an add-on to a mobile phone that can take detailed images and analyse them to diagnose diseases such as tuberculosis.
The CellScope works as a so-called fluorescence microscope that can identify the markers of disease.
It is hoped the device will be useful in the developing world, where such medical diagnostics are rare but mobile ownership and coverage are common. ... Read More
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