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Creating A Development Dynamic: Final Report Of The Digital Opportunity Initiative
White Papers Despite many steps forward in social and economic conditions around the world in recent decades, there remain huge disparities in the quality of human existence. One is now at a critical juncture. Unprecedented global flows in information, products...
[April 29, 2005, 3:00]
Bridging The Digital Divide: An Opportunity For Growth For The 21st Century
White Papers This article outlines an approach for bridging the digital divide resulting from the experience gained from the initiative launched by Alcatel in 2001. Bridging the digital divide is a challenge on which much has been written and to which many...
[October 12, 2004, 3:00]
Microsoft's International Man A Mystery No More
News You served as co-chair of the World Economic Forum's Global Digital Divide Initiative Task Force and are a member of the South African International Advisory Council on Information Society and Development.
[June 21, 2005, 16:40]
Government Pulls Support For Home Computing Initiative
News The Home Computing Initiative is one of a series of important measures in place under the banner of the Government's Digital Strategy, which helps tackle the digital divide for employees on lower incomes.
[March 22, 2006, 17:05]
Dell Chooses New Chief
News It has also tackled printers, network switches, digital projectors and launched a digital home initiative to sell products such as music players and flat-screen televisions. Over time, this represents an opportunity for Michael to gradually step...
[March 5, 2004, 10:20]
Open Source 'split By Digital Divide'
News Scott McNeil, the general manager of the open computing initiative at UNU's International Institute for Software Technology, speaking at a UNU conference on free software in New York on Thursday, said that as few developers in open source projects...
[March 17, 2006, 17:10]
Gates Lays Out Vision For The Digital Decade
News Gates touted Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing initiative as a crucial element to delivering the robust kind of technology necessary for achieving his vision. He noted that there's "a lot of invention still to be done to make the digital decade...
[February 13, 2003, 12:28]
Report Confirms MP3 Is Here To Stay
News Defending the SDMI's (Secure Digital Music Initiative) attempt to create standards, Strain denied this was holding back the uptake of digital distribution. However, the music industry's best efforts still fall short when it comes to preparing for...
[July 7, 1999, 13:33]
A Year Ago: MTV Buys Into Diamond's RioPort MP3 Player
News But recently, the industry has reached a form of détente, agreeing to a new standard, the Secure Digital Music Initiative, which allows music to be protected. MTV Networks Online, a division of Viacom has signed a deal with Diamond Multimedia...
[July 20, 2000, 7:00]
Rio No Longer Home To Pirates As World Waits For June 30
News As the world awaits the June 30 decision of the Secure Digital Music Initiative, Diamond is making moves to pacify the record labels. This summer, the SDMI will make its recommendations for the delivery of digital music world-wide.
[April 27, 1999, 12:00]
EC Launches Tech Scheme For Elderly
News The European Action Plan has been launched to support the Ageing Well in the Information Society initiative, which is part of the i2010 programme. At present many older people are not taking advantage of digital technology that could support their...
[June 18, 2007, 9:05]
HP Predicts 20 Percent Growth
News Since HP launched Adaptive Enterprise in 2003, it's taken $7.8bn in orders for the initiative, said Peter Blackmore, executive vice president of HP's Customer Solutions Group. The company's current products and services are for markets with annual...
[June 9, 2004, 9:45]
RIAA Holds Fire On Webcast Licensing Scheme
News This initiative, dubbed SoundExchange, was due to launch 11 October, but it has now been put back until a meeting of the board of directors can be rescheduled. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act requires Web radio stations to pay royalties for...
[October 9, 2000, 15:11]
MTV Buys Into Diamond's RioPort MP3 Player
News But recently, the industry has reached a form of détente, agreeing to a new standard, the Secure Digital Music Initiative, which allows music to be protected. The deal calls for the two companies to distribute and sell digital music across MTV's...
[July 20, 1999, 15:20]
Third World Nations Embrace IT
News The Digital Opportunity Initiative -- a joint venture comprising the United Nations, the Markle Foundation and consulting firm Accenture -- is pointing to such tech successes in an attempt to encourage more widespread adoption of what it calls...
[July 17, 2001, 9:38]
Portugal Takes RFID Tags To Dogs
News The deal was granted under a government initiative to control rabies in the country. On Friday, Digital Angel, which sells RFID scanning and communications tools for tracking everything from airplanes to farm animals, announced that it had won a...
[July 26, 2004, 9:15]
News Schmooze: Record Companies Smack Net Users
News Many have remarked on the reports seeded by Microsoft over the past few days about its digital rights management initiative, Palladium, and its future Xbox hypothesis, called Freon. Hutchison Whampoa reminded us this week that in the West, new...
[July 5, 2002, 11:35]
Wednesday
Blog At some point, a US wireless initiative will show at least some recognition that there's a world beyond the borders, but this isn't it. There is a long industry tradition of digital watches: Intel, Sinclair, Texas Instruments, Commodore, even HP...
[January 10, 2003, 16:22]
ID Projects To Boom And Run Late
News The UK ID card initiative is by far the most expensive at £5.8bn according to official estimates, compared to France, which costs its scheme at £700m, and Spain (£300m). Additional digits could be encrypted and used for digital signatures and...
[September 29, 2005, 17:55]
Microsoft's $3 Software Plan Ignores Hardware Problem
Blog While we welcome any initiative that helps provide schools in developing countries with access to affordable ICT. Tony's happy to see Microsoft doing something to tackle the digital divide but feels that the lack of hardware is the main issue...
[May 1, 2007, 17:50]
