Technology

Accessibility, Technology & Captioning

A page providing links to a wider variety of websites pertaining to accessibility, technology and captioning.

Technology Empowerment Network

 

The Internet and Developing Nations

After outlining the work of the last decade, we explore one possible Grand Challenge: Connecting every village in the rural developing world to the Internet using a strategy similar to that used in building the NSFNet. We speculate on wireless technologies that might play a role in working toward that goal: Terrestrial, high–altitude platform, and satellite. We conclude with a brief discussion of alternative Grand Challenges and a call for action.

Localisation Software Development Company

Welcome to Civet Software. We are proud to announce the launch of our Nalanda programming system. Nalanda allows users to write source code, such as Visual Basic, HTML, Pascal, Javascript, and other languages in written languages other than English, such as Hindi (using Devanagari), Gujarati, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, and other South Asian languages (extendable to other written languages).

WiFi: Signs point to the wireless net

The BBC reported on Monday, 13 January, 2003, that a global programme to label wi-fi hot spots has been launched by the trade body which promotes wireless.

Future and Emerging Technologies (IST-EU)

 

General Purpose Technologies and Surges in Productivity: Historical Reflections on the Future of the ICT Revolution

 

Handheld computer technologies in community service/volunteering/advocacy

 

Pedal Powered Wireless Networked PC For the World

 

Simple Computer Helps Close Digital Divide

 

Simputer as a suitable platform for embedded systems

 

Financing Information Technology Diffusion in Low–income Asian Developing Countries

 

Voice-over-IP: The Future of Communications

 

Technologies in Education

 

The Development of Broadband Access in Rural and Remote Areas

 

Simputer: Low Cost Portable Alternative to PCs

The Simputer is a low cost portable alternative to PCs, by which the benefits of IT can reach the common man. It has a special role in the third world because it ensures that illiteracy is no longer a barrier to handling a computer. The key to bridging the digital divide is to have shared devices that permit truly simple and natural user interfaces based on sight, touch and audio.

Government's Role in Promoting Broadband

This is a link to a 40 page PDF produced by the ITU Workshop held in Malaysia, April 2003, on the Government's Role in Promoting Broadband.

Broadband Case Studies by Country

Here you will find links, organised by country, to ITU's study on broadband.

A Comparative Study of Broardband in Asia: Deployment and Policy

Written by Izumi Aizu, Executive Research Fellow, GLOCOM, Prinipal, Asia Network Reasearch. The first version of this Paper was presented at the "Asian Economic Integration - Current Status and Prospects-" Symposium hosted by the Research Institute of International Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI) on April 22, 2002

PROMOTING BROADBAND: BACKGROUND PAPER

A 44 page document presented at the ITU Workshop on promoting broadband in Geneva, April 2003. The aim of this background paper is to examine some of the promotion techniques of broadband networks and services that have proven to be successful from both a demand and supply perspective. This should enable those interested in the promotion of broadband to identify how those techniques can apply to their own economies, and to address some of the problems faced.

BROADBAND KOREA: Internet Case Study

A case study on boardband in The Republic of Korea, March 2003.

ITU Publications on Promoting Broadband

The aim of these background papers is to examine some of the promotion techniques of broadband networks and services that have proven to be successful from both a demand and supply perspective. This should enable those interested in the promotion of broadband to identify how those techniques can apply to their own economies, and to address some of the problems faced.