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The perfect device for the developing world is not the PC
Comment The United Nations Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Vodafone Foundation are working together to enable mobile phones to be used for healthcare improvements in India, South Africa and Uganda... [27 Aug 2009]
IBM sets sights on mobile with £100m research boost
News According to a United Nations-ITU survey published in March, about 60 per cent of the world's population now use mobile phones, and there are about 4.1 billion mobile-phone subscriptions in operation... [19 Jun 2009]
UN Agency Retools IT System Quickly and Efficiently With Web Portal Environment
White Paper With 193 member nations, and programs worldwide, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is a broad and diverse organization with a complex and... [30 May 2009]
Improving Quality and Increasing Cost-Efficiency and Effectiveness of Care Delivery
White Paper While healthcare costs in the United States are rising faster than in the rest of the world, coverage, quality of care, medical science are falling behind comparable nations. A recent Commonwealth Fund... [23 Apr 2009]
Why Is Unified Modeling Language (UML) for Cadastral Systems?
White Paper In this modern era of Information Communication Technology (ICT), the transparency of business processes in the national cadastre and national mapping organizations can be considered as dominant issue. [03 Dec 2008]
X.25 White Paper
White Paper X.25 and related protocols are administered by an agency of the United Nations called the International Telecommunications Union (ITU). In the 1970s, a set of protocols was needed to provide users with... [02 Sep 2008]
What scores in the global tech league?
Comment It was like the United Nations of outsourcing. Mark Kobayashi-Hillary offers some ideas. A couple of years ago at a technology conference in Budapest I remember the Czech representatives making their pitch. [03 Jun 2008]
Automotive
White Paper United States, Japan, China, Germany and South Korea are the top five automobile manufacturing nations throughout the world. The automotive industry is the industry involved in the design, development,... [21 May 2008]
WEEE takes council computers to Africa
News Louise Richards, CEO of Computer Aid International, said the support of donors such as Brent Council is vital in fulfilling the United Nations millennium development goals to reach marginalised groups... [21 Apr 2008]
United Arab Emirates Finds Partnership a Fast Path to Leadership in the Global Knowledge Economy
White Paper While boasting a per-capita income that rivals many developed nations, the UAE recognized that its future economic security depended on its successful transition to a more knowledge-based economy. A unit of the Higher... [03 Dec 2007]
RFID tags to "revolutionise" UN relief ops?
News Embedding electronic tags in containers of food and supplies - and even in workers' identification documents - will "revolutionise" the way the United Nations doles out relief in the aftermath of the... [11 Oct 2007]
Academy Student Ye Jing Addresses United Nations Assembly
White Paper Ye Jing, 25 years old and married can boast of several accomplishments at a very young age. Ye Jing signed up for the program because she wanted to obtain a Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) certification and she had thought she... [13 Apr 2007]
UN digs into 'e-scrap' mountain
News A United Nations-led initiative aims to shrink the world's massive 'e-scrap' mountain by improving recycling processes and extending the lifespan of high-tech hardware. Ruediger Kuehr of the... [07 Mar 2007]
Microsoft leaned on EC to spike open source report
News The authors of the Commission's report, headed by academics from the United Nations University in Maastricht, made several amendments to the report as a result of those comments, and comments received... [08 Feb 2007]
Cisco gifts conferencing tech to Middle East
News The recipients will be the governments of five emerging nations: Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates. Cisco is to give away five sets of its top-of-the-range conferencing systems. [29 Jan 2007]
