ICT World Today: ICT World Today Volume 2
Submitted on Mar 19, 2009.
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 ICT is one of the main culprits of global warming. The number of the world’s population using ICT has risen three times over the last decade, and consequent increase in power usage and contaminants generated from the utilization and disposal of ICT equipments has aggravated environmental pollution.
At the same time, ICT shows enormous potentials for the sustainable environment. We can promote e ... Read More
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| Categories: Technology and Innovation in Public Administration |
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International Herald Tribune: Mobile banking providers look to developing world for growth
Submitted on Mar 17, 2009.
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Telecommunications operators in emerging markets are in a race to bring banking services to one billion clients who own cellphones but do not have old-style bank accounts.
MTN, which has the most subscribers in Africa, firmed up plans Monday for a money-transfer service in 21 countries, while its rival Zain, which is based in Kuwait, said it was rolling out a similar product in all its African ... Read More
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| Categories: Wireless technologies, Entrepreneurship, Microfinance |
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Three of the world's leading foundations involved in global health, technology and humanitarian assistance, the Rockefeller Foundation, the United Nations Foundation and The Vodafone Foundation, announced at GSMA's Mobile World Congress an agreement to form the Mobile Health (mHealth) Alliance, a partnership that will work to maximize the benefits of mobile technology on health, especially in the ... Read More
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| Categories: Wireless technologies, Health |
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ITF: Five major high-tech firms pledge to promote more "Cyberellas"
Submitted on Mar 11, 2009.
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'The signing of this Code of Best Practices is a first step towards making high-tech jobs cool for girls and getting more women into the ICT sector. I congratulate those companies that today have the courage and conviction to commit to this Code, that will enrich the ICT sector by making it more female-friendly' said EU Commissioner Viviane Reding.
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| Categories: Gender, Capacity Building, Employment |
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New York Times: Fight Over Internet Filtering Has a Test Run in Europe
Submitted on Mar 11, 2009.
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Net neutrality is a proposal backed by some free-speech advocates and Internet businesses that would bar network operators from filtering Internet traffic. Internet service providers, however, say that basic traffic management is necessary to balance the soaring demand for bandwidth from video and popular sites.
For consumers in Europe and the United States, the outcome of the debate could infl ... Read More
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| Categories: Internet Governance |
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Recently, Vital Wave Consulting, of TCO fame, did a in-depth Landscape Analysis of Low-cost Computing Devices. In that report, they came away with an amazing conclusion:
"While lower-income users in rural areas are often named as the target market for low-cost computing devices, this research shows that manufacturers are targeting higher-income customers (generally wealthy urban dwellers i ... Read More
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| Categories: Youth, Education |
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infoDev: infoDev releases a new study that reviews and surveys the state of ICT and Education in the Small Island Developing States of the Caribbean
Submitted on Mar 10, 2009.
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Over the course of the past decade, many Small Islands Developing States (SIDS) in the Caribbean have made significant efforts in relation to both ICT skills instruction and more general use of ICT in education. However, these efforts have not yet been rewarded by substantial impact due to regional challenges such as limited ICT capacity of the private sector (where those skills might be used) and ... Read More
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| Categories: Technology and Innovation in Public Administration |
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ZDnet: UK Government promises more open-source use
Submitted on Mar 05, 2009.
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The UK government has published its policy on open-source software, promising to use open source rather than proprietary alternatives if there is no significant cost difference in products and services.
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| Categories: ICT Policy and Strategy, Open source software |
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The communications group set up Internet terminals in remote villages [in India] and watched for a transformation. Almost three years later, technology is indeed enriching rural lives — but not quite how they expected. Rather than paying to send emails and surf the web villagers prefer to email their questions to someone who will do the surfing for them and return the answers in a pdf (portable do ... Read More
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| Categories: Connectivity, Rural and last mile access |
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ITU’s new ICT Development Index (IDI) compares developments in information and communication technologies (ICT) in 154 countries over a five-year period from 2002 to 2007.
The Index combines 11 indicators into a single measure that can be used as a benchmarking tool globally, regionally and at the country level. These are related to ICT access, use and skills, such as households with a computer ... Read More
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| Categories: Connectivity, Telecom infrastructure, Metrics and Stats |
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International Herald Tribune: Expanding broadband to bail out economies
Submitted on Feb 26, 2009.
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As policy makers the world over haggle over how to revive ailing economies, one strategy has found widespread support everywhere from Washington and Berlin to Sydney and Seoul: Investing in high-speed Internet access.
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| Categories: Connectivity, Telecom infrastructure, Rural and last mile access, Entrepreneurship, ICT Policy and Strategy |
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The New York Times: The Cellphone, Navigating Our Lives
Submitted on Feb 25, 2009.
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The cellphone is the world’s most ubiquitous computer. The four billion cellphones in use around the globe carry personal information, provide access to the Web and are being used more and more to navigate the real world. And as cellphones change how we live, computer scientists say, they are also changing how we think about information.
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| Categories: Wireless technologies, Science, technology and innovation |
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Arjun Singh, Minister of Human Resource Development, has launched the country’s first e-education programme in Tirupati, the temple town of Andra Pradesh, India.
Known as ‘National Mission on Education (NME) through Information and Communication Technology’, the scheme will cost a total of US$950,000. NME aims to enhance access, equity and quality of higher education in the country by leveragi ... Read More
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| Categories: ICT for improving educational systems |
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The Federal Government in Australia has allocated a second round funding of US$91 million to enable almost 1400 schools nationwide to purchase computers for students.
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| Categories: Access, Education, ICT for improving educational systems |
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International Herald Tribune: Imagining a new, more secure Internet
Submitted on Feb 19, 2009.
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There is a growing belief among engineers and security experts that Internet security and privacy have become so maddeningly elusive that the only way to fix the problem is to start over.
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| Categories: Research and Development, Science, technology and innovation |
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