Meeting: 6th International Conference on Information Technology and Applications (ICITA 2009),9 - 12 November 2009, Hanoi, VNThe paper summarizes the rise of digital technology, focusing on mobile phones and their impact on developing countries. For the first time the mass of the developing world, including the poor, have access to a technology that they can afford, know how to use and that has great potential to affect their poverty outcomes. The authors raise questions about how the “poor-people's technology” of the mobile phone can play a central role in information and communications technologies for development.À la fin du XXe siècle, on a assisté à la commercialisation d’Internet à titre de grande technologie transformatrice ayant d’i...
Mobile phone ubiquity in much of the developing world has turned from a question of when rather than...
Digital technologies have spread rapidly in much of the world. Digital dividends—that is, the broade...
This paper explores the commonly held view that the Internet, and information and communication tech...
Technology experts and activists have for years attempted to bridge the gap between those with acces...
More and more development workers tell stories of mobile surprises - not just who is using them, and...
In the 1990s and 2000s, we were promised a leapfrogging development and a rapid entry of Africa in t...
In recent years, the rise of information and communication technologies (ICTs) contrasted with the d...
In its opening remarks, The Economist declares emphatically that “Paying for a taxi ride using your ...
Since the Millennium Development Goals first met digital media, initiatives harnessing ICTs to impro...
ABSTRACT In its opening remarks, The Economist declares emphatically that “Paying for a taxi ride us...
Digitalization in Sub-Saharan Africa enhanced the accessibility of communications by the majority of...
Worldwide it is estimated that there are over 5.3 billion mobile subscribers of which almost 4 billi...
The second stage of the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) in November 2005 resolved to tack...
Description: In a remarkably short period of time, internet and mobile technology have become a part...
Today, nearly six billion of the world’s seven billion people have mobile phones (UN ITU, 2013:1). A...
Mobile phone ubiquity in much of the developing world has turned from a question of when rather than...
Digital technologies have spread rapidly in much of the world. Digital dividends—that is, the broade...
This paper explores the commonly held view that the Internet, and information and communication tech...
Technology experts and activists have for years attempted to bridge the gap between those with acces...
More and more development workers tell stories of mobile surprises - not just who is using them, and...
In the 1990s and 2000s, we were promised a leapfrogging development and a rapid entry of Africa in t...
In recent years, the rise of information and communication technologies (ICTs) contrasted with the d...
In its opening remarks, The Economist declares emphatically that “Paying for a taxi ride using your ...
Since the Millennium Development Goals first met digital media, initiatives harnessing ICTs to impro...
ABSTRACT In its opening remarks, The Economist declares emphatically that “Paying for a taxi ride us...
Digitalization in Sub-Saharan Africa enhanced the accessibility of communications by the majority of...
Worldwide it is estimated that there are over 5.3 billion mobile subscribers of which almost 4 billi...
The second stage of the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) in November 2005 resolved to tack...
Description: In a remarkably short period of time, internet and mobile technology have become a part...
Today, nearly six billion of the world’s seven billion people have mobile phones (UN ITU, 2013:1). A...
Mobile phone ubiquity in much of the developing world has turned from a question of when rather than...
Digital technologies have spread rapidly in much of the world. Digital dividends—that is, the broade...
This paper explores the commonly held view that the Internet, and information and communication tech...