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Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development

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rockefellerfoundation.org –

The Rockefeller Foundation’s use of scenario planning to explore technology and international development has been both inspired and ambitious. The Rockefeller Foundation has already used this project as an opportunity to clarify and advance the relationship between technology and development. Through interviews and the scenario workshops, they have engaged a diverse set of people — from different geographies, disciplines, and sectors — to identify the key forces driving change, to explore the more...

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Sonia Hossain on May 03, 2012

Millennials will benefit and suffer due to their hyperconnected lives

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pewinternet.org –

Teens and young adults brought up from childhood with a continuous connection to each other and to information will be nimble, quick-acting multitaskers who count on the Internet as their external brain and who approach problems in a different way from their elders, according to a new survey of technology experts.Many of the experts surveyed by Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center and the Pew Internet Project said the effects of hyperconnectivity and the always-on lifestyles of young more...

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D C on March 06, 2012

The People's Republic of China's High-Tech Exports

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Trade statistics portray the People's Republic of China (PRC) as the largest exporter of high-tech products. In this paper the author argues that the PRC's leading position in high-tech exports is a myth created by outdated trade statistics, which are inconsistent with trade based on global supply chains. Current trade statistics mistakenly credit entire values of assembled high-tech products to the PRC, thus greatly inflating its exports. He suggests that a value-added-based approach should be more...

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Sonia Hossain on May 07, 2012

Global Village Construction Set

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opensourceecology.org –

This is an open source for information on low cost, high quality machines that can be built by individuals and which can greatly improve productivity. It is part of a larger movement. I quote in the following paragraphs from Isaiah Saxon's blog post via the Huffington Post's "Best of TED 2011":."The most idealistic, defiant, and ambitious project among this movement is being led by a group called Open Source Ecology. This scattered network of engineers, farmers and supporters is working to more...

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John Daly on February 20, 2012

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wecaresolar.org –

WE CARE Solar promotes safe motherhood and reduces maternal mortality in developing regions by providing health workers with reliable lighting, mobile communication, and blood bank refrigeration using solar electricity.This is a relatively small NGO that has developed a solar panel, battery, LED lighting system that also can be used to charge hand held battery powered devices. The system is intended for health centers in developing countries that do not have electric power, but there is a more...

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John Daly on April 04, 2012

The Darfur Stoves Project

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darfurstoves.org –

The mission: to improve the safety and wellbeing of internally displaced persons in Darfur by providing fuel-efficient cookstoves. The Berkeley-Darfur Stove requires less than half the fuel of traditional three stone fires, thus reducing the time women spend outside the safety of the camps collecting firewood while also decreasing their use of money and food rations to obtain fuel.The Story: The Berkeley-Darfur Stove was first conceived in 2005, when Ashok Gadgil, Faculty Senior Scientist at more...

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John Daly on April 04, 2012

The Product Space

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chidalgo.com –

"Economies grow by upgrading the products they produce and export. The technology, capital, institutions, and skills needed to make newer products are more easily adapted from some products than from others. Here, we study this network of relatedness between products, or “product space,” finding that more-sophisticated products are located in a densely connected core whereas less-sophisticated products occupy a less-connected periphery. Empirically, countries move through the product space by more...

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John Daly on April 02, 2012

World Telecommunication and Information Society Day 2011: Message from ITU Secretary-General

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Message from Dr Hamadoun I. Touré, ITU Secretary-General, on the occasion of World Telecommunication and Information Society Day 2011. The theme this year is "Better Life in Rural Communities with ICTs".

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D C on May 15, 2011

Honeybee Network Data Base

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Over more than two decades, Honeybee had populated a database with over ten thousand inventions of grassroots entrepreneurs who have created ingenious solutions for pressing socioeconomic problems in their local communities.

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John Daly on April 02, 2012

FINAL CALL FOR ABSTRACTS | Technologies for Sustainable Development: A Way to Reduce Poverty?

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cooperation.epfl.ch –

2012 International Conference - Technologies for Sustainable Development: A Way to Reduce Poverty? Date: May 29-31, 2012 Place: Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland Convenors: UNESCO Chair in Technologies for Development, Cooperation & Development Center (CODEV) Final Call for Abstracts! If you have not submitted your abstracts for the oral or poster presentation sessions, submit now before the deadline closes on 15 December 2011. This conference aims to more...

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Eileen Hazboun on November 23, 2011

Video: Peter Diamandis on his book “Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think”

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I quote from The Economist:"Messrs Diamandis and Kotler argue that the world is on the cusp of a succession of abundance-producing breakthroughs. The technological revolution has gone furthest in the world of smart machines. The smartphone contains a collection of tools—from voice recorders to video cameras to GPS devices—that would have cost tens of thousands of dollars a decade ago. But it is rolling on in lots of other areas too. Carmakers are working on driverless vehicles. Robotics firms more...

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John Daly on March 11, 2012

Web 2.0 Wonders

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tinyurl.com –

The Internet remains one of the most important resources for information retrieval, research, communication and networking. Many of its users keep on discovering that there are an increasing number of opportunities offered by the new 2nd generation platforms available on the internet also dubbed as Web 2.0. Although the Internet may not be easily accessible to the rural poor in the African continent, the steadily decreasing costs of ICTs and Internet infrastructure all point to a promising more...

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Giacomo Rambaldi on July 22, 2010

Web 2.0 for Development | Intercultures Magazine | Volume 7, Number 2

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international.gc.ca –

The Intercultures Magazine has interviewed Giacomo Rambaldi. a development practitioner engaged in promoting Web 2.0 applications in the context of development cooperation. Here is the account of his interview.

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Giacomo Rambaldi on November 11, 2011

Afghans Build Open-Source Internet from Trash

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shareable.net –

Funded primarily by the personal savings of group members and a grant from the National Science Foundation, residents of Jalalabad have built the FabFi network: an open-source system that uses common building materials and off-the-shelf electronics to transmit wireless ethernet signals across distances of up to several miles. With FabFi, communities can build their own wireless networks to gain high-speed internet connectivity---thus enabling them to access online educational, medical, and more...

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D C on July 05, 2011

Main Science and Technology Indicators (MSTI): 2010/1 edition

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This biannual publication provides a set of indicators that reflect the level and structure of the efforts undertaken by OECD Member countries and nine non-member economies (Argentina, China, Israel, Romania, Russian Federation, Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa, Chinese Taipei) in the field of science and technology. These data include final or provisional results as well as forecasts established by government authorities. The indicators cover the resources devoted to research and development, more...

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John Daly on August 07, 2010

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