The recent Budget statements in New Delhi, India retains certain hope of positivity for the ICT industry in the nation. The purose of such a Budget is to ensure the momentum created, to continue in the social sector enabling a greater penetration of ICTs in India.
Over the coming year, improving awareness and take-up of local e-Services will be a key focus of the Local e-Gov Programme.
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The information society must be reshaped if it targets to deliver greater developmental impact. ICT is shaped by social and political forces, it can not automatically provide significant benefits for the central developmental goals of poor countries.
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The knowledge workers need to be innovative, therefore, they would have to continuously update their knowledge and skills through lifelong learning.
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The Thai capital Bangkok recently held
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The Albanian experience can inform other countries
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ICT use for sustainable livelihoods
The groups that face the greatest difficulty in getting remunerative employment in the developing world are young people (ages 15 to 24) and women.
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Given the under-representation of women in ICT policy and decision-making processes generally, ICT policies and regulations are on average silent on women
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Though an administrative mess and a flop by bureaucratic standards, the interesting thing about the short-term interaction of Media Lab Asia with the MIT, Indian NGO community and India
Software experts have designed simputers to help the traffic cops to better equip them in the management of burgeoning traffic in Indian city Bangalore.
