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Developing countries get free medical help online
News Developing countries will be assessed according to their ability to pay for the information. We would never have gone to publishers if we weren't also working on the other side of improving Internet access and connectivity in developing countries...
[July 10, 2001, 15:25]
Developing countries could benefit from the cloud
Video At the OpenSource World event in San Francisco, Lew Tucker, vice president and CTO of cloud computing at Sun, explained that many developing countries are skipping over acquiring their own servers and going right to the cloud.
[August 19, 2009, 16:13]
Developing countries could benefit from the cloud
News At the OpenSource World event in San Francisco, Lew Tucker, vice president and CTO of cloud computing at Sun, explained that many developing countries are skipping over acquiring their own servers and going right to the cloud.
[August 19, 2009, 16:17]
DSL for developing Countries
White Papers This article examines the potential of the DSL business in developing countries and provides guidelines at the strategic, marketing and operational levels. Adoption of as such an approach will have a direct impact on the DSL service uptake in a...
[October 12, 2004, 3:00]
Government body says developing countries need open source
News Developing countries should look at open-source software and should avoid legislation designed to stop anti-copying measures being circumvented, a government-backed group of influential experts will warn on Monday.
[September 13, 2002, 10:19]
Government body says developing countries need open source
Talkback Open-source is a model that promotes self-participation and appears most obvious as a choice candidate for developing countries seeking almost any type of modernization. That said, I dare say developing countries should appear to naturally...
[November 9, 2004, 11:05]
Gates mocks $100 laptop
Talkback The '$100 laptop', as I understand it, is targeted significantly towards the developing world; indeed, I can't think it would find much success in developed countries, given it's limitations and the provision of relatively cheap public Internet...
[March 16, 2006, 7:56]
Open-source Wi-Fi links remote communities
News European wireless and open-source specialists have embarked on an international tour to spread the benefits of the technology to developing countries from Tajikistan to Ghana. The aim is to allow remote communities in developing countries without...
[July 8, 2004, 11:45]
South Africa compares digital divide to apartheid
News The effect of the lack of IT equipment and skills in developing countries has been likened by South Africa's high commissioner to the inequality that existed in the country under the apartheid system.
[April 25, 2008, 11:39]
New service aims to help developing world in research
News Scientists in developing countries may soon have better access to peer research on the Internet, thanks to a partnership between search specialists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Elsevier.
[December 14, 2005, 15:30]
Hazardous tech threatens recycling workers
Talkback It is excruciating that “hazardous waste” under the garb of “charity” is openly sent to developing countries, including India. The developed countries are pretending to bridge the “digital divide” by “separating the body and souls” of many in these...
[December 12, 2005, 11:59]
Toxic tech threatening developing world
Talkback It is excruciating that “hazardous waste” under the garb of “charity” is openly sent to developing countries, including India. The developed countries are pretending to bridge the “digital divide” by “separating the body and souls” of many in these...
[December 12, 2005, 12:02]
Hierarchical Model Based LAN Architecture & VSAT-Based WAN for a National Telemedicine Network in a Developing Country: Case of Ethiopia
White Papers Due to difficult terrain and limited transportation infrastructures, developing countries continue to suffer from the absence of extended and adequate medical and healthcare services. It has been suggested that telemedicine offers a basis for a...
[December 6, 2007, 0:01]
Open source 'split by digital divide'
News Few programmers in developing countries get involved in the mainstream development of open source software, leading to a digital divide within open source projects, a researcher from the United Nations University (UNU) claimed on Thursday.
[March 17, 2006, 17:10]
Low-power computing: a tech guide review
Reviews Many organisations are working to make computer technology available to the (roughly) 5 billion people in developing countries who currently reside on the PC-free side of the so-called 'digital divide'.
[March 26, 2008, 15:19]
Photos: OLPC, Classmate and Eee review
Reviews Small and inexpensive notebooks designed primarily for schoolchildren — particularly in developing countries — have been a hot topic ever since Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project began in 2005.
[March 3, 2008, 14:03]
Mobile tech gets cautious praise from aid groups
News Mobile phones have done a great deal to improve the lives of people in developing countries, but more research needs to be done to work out whether the costs outweigh the benefits, according to a senior economist.
[May 7, 2008, 16:45]
Greenfield Foreign Direct Investment and Mergers and Acquisitions: Feedback and Macroeconomic Effects
White Papers Foreign direct investment (FDI) flows to developing countries surged in the 1990s to become their leading source of external financing. The paper finds that in all samples higher mergers and acquisitions is typically followed by higher Greenfield...
[November 19, 2008, 23:00]
Workplace gets OpenDocument support
News IBM plans to support early next year the OpenDocument format in its desktop software, a product the company intends to market aggressively in developing countries. Arthur Fontaine, the marketing manager for Workplace Managed Client, believes IBM's...
[December 5, 2005, 8:40]
Saving lives with mobile open source
News The UN Foundation and the charitable arm of mobile operator Vodafone recently carried out some research into the impact mobile phones are having on developing countries. Q: It makes a lot of sense to use mobile phones for data collection given the...
[June 6, 2008, 15:25]
