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In Kenya especially the arid and semi-arid areas, scenes of idle land are common. These pieces of land are deemed unproductive.
Eduardo Nuñez, Director of the Brazilian Institute of Statistics, Marthin Hilbert, Coordinator of the Information Society Programme of UN-ECLAC, and Mansour Farah, Team Leader of the ICT Division of UN-ESCWA, all made presentations at the IGF Panel Discussion on the Partnership on Measuring ICT ...
Recommendations developed by workshop participants focused on four main themes; enhancing the development of and access to infrastructure; enabling policies and financing frameworks; offering technological choice, responding to demand and addressing the challenge/opportunities of convergence; and...
Learn more about the people at the ground in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. And don’t miss the pictures!
An article posted today on the allAfrica.com website reports on the collaborative efforts of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the International Telecommunication Union, and UNESCO to address the multilingualism issue posed by the rapid expansion of the internet.
Here’s an article from the International Herald Tribune, published 12 November, on the challenges of expanding the internet to include less-developed regions: "Now that more than 1 billion people use the Internet, international policy makers and experts are struggling with how link the worl...
Intellectual Property Watch, a non-profit independent news service that reports on international intellectual property policies, quotes APC executive director Anriette Esterhuysen, in an article featured today on their website under Latest Open Access News.
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