ICTpost Governance Bureau Mobile phones, can reach those areas where the infrastructure necessary for Internet services or wired phone services is difficult to setup. In the developing countries mobile government applications may become a key method for reaching citizens in far and wide areas and promoting exchange of communications. In such countries with insufficient conventional […]
By ICTpost Media Action Bureau Mobile phone and web applications that enable people to talk to local policymakers and allow children to learn through games have won a competition for technological innovations that address sanitation problems in developing countries. One in three people today have no toilet and the global economic losses due to lack […]
ICTpost Media Action Bureau Thousands of children of Indian migrant workers are missing out on school education. Children of slums and of migrant workers suffer the maximum in the most affluent and expanding commercial and high tech cities of India. Parents have no means to educate their children and care for them. Children take to […]
ICTpost Media Action Community radio acts as a vehicle for the community and voluntary sector, civil society, agencies, NGOs and citizens to work in partnership to further community development aims, in addition to broadcasting. There is legally defined community radio (as a distinct broadcasting sector) in many countries, such as France, Argentina, South Africa, Australia […]
mHealth has emerged in recent years as largely an application for developing countries, stemming from the rapid rise of mobile phone penetration in low-income nations. The field, then, largely emerges as a means of providing greater access to larger segments of a population in India, as well as improving the capacity of health systems in […]
By Craig Guillot Robots Lend a Helping Hand With Patient Care In late January, physicians at Providence Regional Medical Center in Everett, Wash., used a robot to take an infected man’s vitals with a stethoscope and to communicate via a built-in screen. The remote-controlled telehealth cart allows physicians to perform basic diagnostic functions, such as taking blood […]
By Lawrence Rufrano, Executive Director of the Future of Digital Currency Program at Stanford University Imagine a world where you could transfer money to friends or family anywhere in the world, in a matter of seconds. Current systems can take up to 10 days to transfer money from one country to another. The money moves […]
By Houlin Zhao, ITU Secretary-General *The following article is adapted from my remarks at today’s G20 Digital Economy Ministerial Meeting. Let me begin by thanking His Excellency H.E. Eng. Abdullah Amer Al-Swaha for inviting me today to address the G20 Digital Economy Ministerial Meeting. ITU is proud to be a knowledge partner of Saudi Arabia’s […]
New Delhi: July 24, 2020 IT spending in India will total $83.5 billion, a decline of 8.1% in 2020, according to the latest forecast by Gartner, Inc. This is the first decline in IT spending experienced in India in the last five years. “The fear of a global economic recession due to the COVID-19 pandemic […]
Geneva/London, 24 July 2020 – Seventy-five countries have submitted expressions of interest to protect their populations and those of other nations through joining the COVAX Facility, a mechanism designed to guarantee rapid, fair and equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines worldwide. The 75 countries, which would finance the vaccines from their own public finance budgets, partner […]
