Intel Chairman Craig Barrett says Silicon Valley IT companies are in the right place at the right time to help the United Nations address the world’s health, education, and economic problems. Barrett, who has been appointed the chairman of the U.N.’s Global Alliance for ICT and Development, says, “My job is to make sure that we don’t talk a lot, but we do a lot.” The Alliance will meet today at the the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., to discuss the role of Silicon Valley in the U.N.’s information technology goals. PodTech’s Jason Lopez interviewed Intel’s chairman at the company’s headquarters in Santa Clara. Intel made this video possible.

Related Stories: IntelWorldAhead

More info from Intel’s World Ahead

The United Nations is embarking on something new: a partnership with the private sector to address some of the developing world’s most vexing issues in areas such as education, health care, economic development and government. Craig Barret, the chairman of Intel, has been appointed to chair the UN initiative called the Global Alliance for ICT and Development. GAID meets with Silicon Valley leaders for the first time at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., for a series of panels and discussions about the ways IT solutions can help the U.N.’s efforts. PodTech’s Jason Lopez spoke with Sarbuland Khan, executive coordinator for GAID.

The podcast was made possible by Intel.

Related Stories: IntelWorldAhead

More info from Intel’s World Ahead

Intel will host a meeting between representatives of the the United Nations and business leaders in Silicon Valley to discuss ways of solving global problems such as access to health care, education and economic development. Craig Barrett, chairman of Intel, is also serving as the chairman of the UN ...

Gary Kim, managing editor of IT Business Wire, and Andy Randall, MetaSwitch’s vice president of marketing, chat with PodTech.net at the World Center Marriott in Orlando after a breakfast meeting sponsored by MetaSwitch. The breakfast panel focused on opportunities and challenges for the new competitive local exchange carriers, or ...

Control4 Co-Founder and CTO Eric Smith speaks with Dennis Wood about how Control4 is bringing home automation to the masses. Smith is a member of vSpring’s v100 - a peer-nominated group of the top 100 venture entrepreneurs in the Rocky Mountain region.

Control4 manufactures a complete line ...

In this Thought Leaders podcast brought to you by SAVVIS, Nicholas Carr, acclaimed business technology writer and strategist, discusses the end of corporate computing brought on by the move from assets to shared resources. He also comments on the next generation of IT - the Utility Model - and ...

It’s become old hat to suggest that the world of media is changing faster than the old media companies, and that the computer and tech world — long accustomed to turning sharp corners quickly — has the advantage of momentum in the new, post-YouTube climate. However, the opportunity ...

Larry Gerbrandt is president and general manager of Nielsen Analytics. In this third installment in a multi-part podcast, he joines John F. Ince to discuss the powerful new techniques of engagement that are emerging for advertisers with digital media — especially with broadband access and mobile devices.

WiMax is the promised shangrila for bigger broadband penetration in India. It’s been a distant hope for many years and there’s been much hype surrounding it. Lately, we’ve been hearing about WiMax being deployed in a few cities in India, so it’s a good time to get a realistic ...

In an unprecedented move, RajShri Media, one of India’s biggest movie houses, premiered its latest movie on the Internet, on the very same day of its worldwide theatrical release.

Rajshri Media has already aggregated more than 3,000 hours of premium Indian video content across multiple genres. Consumers can stream ...

SANTA CLARA, October 31, 2006 (PodTech News) — Danielle Levitas is vice president of IDC’s consumer and broadband research. She spoke with PodTech’s Catherine Girardeau at the Women in Technology Summit about the results of a survey on women’s digital entertainment priorities, commissioned by Women in Technology International and conducted ...

It’s freezing cold in Dharamsala, India, in the mountain state of Himachal Pradesh. Clouds chase the sun away, and rain shatters the sky with numbing regularity. But something about this place has a special meaning to everyone who comes here. Once upon a time, it was for a metaphysical search, ...

Steve Koenig, senior manager, industry analysis, CEA, and Joseph Bates, director of research, CEA, led the final panel discussion of the day on October 17th: Five Burning Questions in the CE Industry. The panel combined quick audience surveys with videotaped consumer surveys, then analyzed the survey findings in terms of current CEA research. Tune in to this PodTech.net podcast to find out the answers to these burning questions:

Dwight Barker, vice president of product management for Network Physics, provides an outlook on industry trends and needs for accurate application performance management.

At the recent Intel Developer Forum, Intel CEO Paul Otellini takes a virtual test drive in a Volkswagen kitted out with Intel’s UMPC. A map to a nearby coffee shop, a complete music collection and movies for the back seats (complete with infrared headsets so everyone in the ...

Marc Canter speaks on evolving open standards, and finding the happy mean between standardizing and differentiating by remaining private.

More on discussions spinning off of Canter’s talk at Gnomedex at Eric’o'theque! and with Richard MacManus.

Kolachi is one of the traditional names for the port city of Karachi, in Pakistan’s coastal southern province of Sindh. The city too is a peculiarly South Asian blend of old and new, crowded marketplaces competing for space with massive concrete office blocks housing an overwhelmingly large part of Pakistan’s business — well over one third of the economy comes out of this bustling city of 12 million. It also has a vibrant arts and culture scene.

SANTA CLARA, Calif., September 20, 2006 (PodTech News) — Intel has chosen to help develop the the IT infrastructure of the Amazon — not the online seller but a portion of the actual river. The initiative is a part of Intel’s World Ahead Program, which the company established in May and pledged more than $1 billion over the next 5 years, to bring Internet coverage to various regions around the world. This week Intel Chairman Craig Barrett will promote wireless broadband PC access in Parantins, a remote Brazilian city of about 100,000 on the Amazon River. He says the company’s aim is to introduce components of a comprehensive strategy that includes hardware and wireless capability.

Jim Kahle, IBM Fellow with IBM Corporation, revealed some of the secret ingredients of innovating through collaboration during his keynote address at the Cadence Design Systems CDNLive Conference, Silicon Valley. Kahle was a key player in the creation of Cell Broadband Engine processor, an accelerator extension to IBM Power Architecture ...

LOS ANGELES, September 7, 2006 (PodTech News) — In a sure sign of things to come, television and movie studios are starting to create original short-form programming for broadband and wireless devices. Warner Brothers Television Group just announced the creation of Studio 2.0, bringing together talent and advertisers to create original live-action and animated programming. Its aim is to license the programming to online sites, portals and wireless providers in collaboration with the recently formed Warner Bros. Digital Distribution. But it’s not just major Hollywood studios getting into the act — Internet start-ups and small production companies also recognize the opportunities, as evidenced by the recent launch of ScriptThis.tv, a website for people who want to be part of the television creation process. PodTech’s Matt Kelly reports.

Robert Thomas, CEO of Infoblox, a rapidly growing enterprise infrastructure player, sat down with PodTech founder John Furrier to discuss trends in DNS and infrastructure. “When you think about DNS, it’s boring stuff,” says Thomas. “But if you think about every network in the world, it’s embedded. It’s kind ...

SAN FRANCISCO, August 18, 2006 (PodTech News) – “The radios worked in New Orleans until the power went out,” said Ellen Kirk, vice president of marketing for Tropos Networks, in an interview Wednesday with PodTech’s Catherine Girardeau. That test bodes well for the durability of Mountain View’s new Google WiFi ...

MENLO PARK, August 8, 2006 (Podtech News) — Sprint Nextel today announced plans to develop and deploy a nationwide wireless broadband mobile network using WiMAX. Sprint said it will work with Intel on mobile WiMAX-enabled chipsets and with Motorola and Samsung on devices. PodTech’s Catherine Girardeau talked with Chris Thomas, ...

MENLO PARK, August 02, 2006 (PodTech News) – Time Warner Inc. announced today that its AOL division’s email and other webservices will be made available for free to broadband users. The move is a bid to attract more viewers and grow online advertising business. Catherine Girardeau reports.

MENLO PARK, June 30, 2006 (PodTech News) — “We certainly want the (telecoms) to recover their investment,” said Art Brodsky, communications director of Washington D.C-based public advocacy group Public Knowledge. “The way to get the money is to let ...