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6 February 2008
One billion people use the internet - another five billion don't. Will getting more local languages online make much difference?
21 February 2007
Super-fast internet connections and digital technology are changing the face of medicine. A multi-million-dollar venture between India and Ethiopia will see doctors in Addis Ababa using telecommunications to consult medics in India.
18 November 2005
The launch of a laptop costing only $100 was a high-point of the Tunis WSIS. Now a project aims to deliver these laptops to each poor child in the world.
16 November 2005
As much as 70 per cent of all internet content is in the English language. But less than half of users are native English speakers.
16 November 2005
Segun Oruame was at the World Summit on the Information Society when President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe demanded an immediate end to what he called the US control of the internet.
4 April 2005
Thousands of poor and often unemployed South African women have been lured into marriages of convenience with foreigners seeking South African residency or citizenship.
1 January 2005
When Uganda joined the internet bandwagon less than a decade ago it had hopes of delivering important information to farmers but today much of the information bypasses them.
3 November 2004
The Chinese government has unveiled grand plans to take the telephone to every village by 2010. The majority already have fixed land-line telephones, but the cost of connecting the remaining ten per cent - most of them in remote areas - will be huge.
3 August 2004
African governments are pushing for changes to the way the internet is run. They want to see the it become more development-oriented and less commercial, open to more languages, and run by an international group.
7 May 2004
Africa is witnessing a revolution in information and communication technologies, but huge gaps remain. People in rural areas have been ignored, as have been the poor.
6 February 2004
When the guns fell silent in Sierra Leone's 10-year-long civil war, few would have thought that the next big thing would be mobile phones.
1 February 2004
The engine of India's new era of a dynamic and privatised economy is thought to be the information technology sector, where a revolution is taking place. But who is benefiting?
17 December 2003
How the poor in South Africa – especially women - are learning business skills in order to find their own entrepreneurial solutions to unemployment.
20 November 2003
India's first district with a computer literate member in every family heralds a bottom-up approach to planning. Malappuram, in the state of Kerala has long been a model for people-centred development.
22 October 2003
Uganda is often projected as a model for poor countries that want to use telecommunications to speed up their economic development. But the success story sounds hollow in Uganda's villages.
22 July 2003
Twelve years after the overthrow of the Siad Barre government there is no centralised government in Somalia, warlords remain unreconciled and poverty rules. But one thing seems to work - telephones.
22 July 2003
The Indian state of Karnataka is trying to assist rural development through Information and Communications Technologies. But how well can ICTs work for development in a country riven with inequities?
20 June 2003
Most of the world's computers run on systems that cost money and use source-codes that are strictly inaccessible. But there’s a growing movement for systems that are cheap or free.
1 April 2002
Building on its strategic location between Africa and South Asia, Mauritius has become the latest country to jump on to the information technology bandwagon.
10 March 2000
The latest development buzzword is 'knowledge', hailed as the solution to world poverty. But whose knowledge are we talking about and is it accessible to all?
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