Broadband, connectivity, Wi-Fi, accessibility and education efforts are all priorities for the ongoing efforts in developing nations and regions around the globe. Intel, along with the United Nations and International Telecommunication Union (ITU), among others, is participating this month in the Connect Africa Summit, which aims to bring together human, technical and financial resources to speed development and improvement of Africa’s Information and Communication Technology, or ICT infrastructure. Expanding broadband, wireless and mobile access technologies is the current push, after indications that Africa’s general ICT development is lagging behind its unprecedented adoption of mobile phone technology (400 percent in just a few years - well ahead of projections).
Dr. Hamadoun Touré is secretary-general of the International Telecommunication Union. His call for what he refers to as a “Marshall Plan for ICT infrastructure development in Africa,” has been heard by the United Nations, and particularly by Intel Chairman Craig Barrett who, leading the UN’s Global Alliance for ICT and Development, or UN GAID, is working to bring the leading ICT companies in Silicon Valley and around the world to the challenges in Africa.
The United Nations’s Millennium Development Goals are driving innovation around the world, as the challenge of reducing global poverty ...
ClickUni is an interesting service that gives university clubs and social groups the tools to manage their membership lists, events, newsletters and organizational network details. It is the brainchild of two Oxford University students David Langer, managing director, and Andy Young, techincal director. They were recently in Silicon Valley ...
In an interview with PodTech.net at the World Center Marriott in Orlando, Florida, MetaSwitch’s Chris Mairs, CTO and senior vice president, business development, and Andy Randall, vice president, marketing, discuss the partnership between Cisco and MetaSwitch, the definition of service in next generation networks, and the challenges CLECs ...
David Cheriton is professor of computer science at Stanford University. The school has been the unofficial launching pad for plenty of young tech entrepreneurs. Cheriton talks with PodVentureZone’s John Ince about the his early impressions of Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin and the meeting he set up with Andy Bechtolsheim that ...
David Cheriton is professor of computer science at Stanford University. The school has been the unofficial launching pad for plenty of young tech entrepreneurs. Cheriton talks with PodVentureZone’s John Ince about the Google Co-Founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, as well as Andy Bechtolsheim and Jim Clark.
Last Monday, Veer Bothra (seen here on the left) asked me to join in the monthly mixer he organises, called Mobile Monday. It’s loosely tied in with an eponymous event held around the world, an opportunity for mobile platform stakeholders to meet and talk about change … and more of the same.
Veer wanted me to talk about podcasting, not the nuts and bolts, but where it’s at and its relevance to the radio paradigm. That’s a juicy opportunity, I thought to myself, and so found myself making the difficult journey to North Mumbai (needs planning and a sort of instinctive feel for which combination of segments and modes of transport make it the least painful overall).
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