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Category Archives: ICTs
African’s pay on average 90 times more than Americans for Internet
This is just very, very sad: CNN.com – Official: Africans pay $1,800 for 1GB of data – May 18, 2006.
Q&A with $100 laptop Negroponte
Just in case you’re still missing something regarding the $100 laptop: RED HERRING | Q&A: Nicholas Negroponte
Posted in Development, Education, ICTs, Leapfrogging development
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New Global Alliance for Information Technologies and Development
There was a fair amount of disappointment with the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). As far as the two primary issues that were expected to be addressed by the summit, internet governance and the Digital … Continue reading
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Bill Thompson on Open Source in India
Seems like there’s a lot of talk about open source software in regards to development these days. The BBC’s Bill Thompson has an interesting story on open source software in India: BBC NEWS | Technology | India lays down ‘open’ … Continue reading
Movie about free and open source software for development
This sounds very interesting. Too bad I don’t get BBC World! Maybe it’ll be available for free download after the BBC airing… Coming Soon: The Code Breakers – a BBC World Documentary on FOSS and Development
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ICTs in India
A very insightful article on the BBC website today about how ICTs are being used in rapidly changing India: BBC NEWS | Technology | India aims to be hi-tech heaven
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