Tag Archives: ICTs
Ensuring disability agendas are embedded effectively in national ICT strategies
At today’s WSIS Forum session on ICTs and disability (#ICT4DD) led by the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organsation and the UNESCO Chair in ICTD at Royal Holloway, University of London, more than 35 people in Geneva and some 15 people participating externally … Continue reading
Filed under Accessibility, ICT4D
New ITU report on the role of ICTs in advancing growth in the least developed countries
The ITU has just published a very important report on the role of ICTs in enhancing development in the least developed countries. I was privileged to have been asked to write the foreword, in which I made the following comments: … Continue reading
Filed under Africa, Development, ICT4D
First impressions of Shenzhen
I flew down from Beijing to Shenzhen today for a 48 hour visit to meet with colleagues at the University. This evening my good friend Man Xu kindly took me for an exploration of this extraordinary city. Until 1979 when … Continue reading
Glitch with using Google Mail View – be warned!
Wow – managed to track down an elusive error! Has anyone else come across this glitch? Guess they must have…. A colleague was transferring data from a large number of .doc forms completed in Microsoft Word into an Excel spreadsheet, … Continue reading
Digital databases and political campaigning
Those addicted to the potential benefits of digital databases, identity cards and biometric passports, often berate me for my concerns about the ethical implications of the introduction of such technologies (see for example, the comments of “James Bond” in response … Continue reading
ICTs and educational reconstruction in post-earthquake Chile
How can ICTs best be used to support educational reconstruction in Chile following the devastating earthquake there on 27th February? The Chilean Ministry of Education has established a task force to design a strategy for using ICTs to help alleviate … Continue reading
Filed under ICT4D
