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Institute for eGovernment

Asia’s premier ICT event e-Asia 2009, the fourth in the series was opened by President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the BMICH yesterday. It was jointly organized by the Information Technology Communication Agency (ICTA) and Centre for Science Development and Media Studies under the theme “Opportunities for Digital Asia”. The three-day Information and Communication Technology event of the region for the year includes a conference and exhibition which will conclude tomorrow.

Yet, the Internet penetration in Sri Lanka is extremely poor when considered with other Asian countries. Many reasons are attributed for this gap and in Dr. Wijayasuriya's words "it can be mainly attributed to consumers who do not perceive any marginal value that can be extracted from the Internet'.

Minister of State for Information and Technology, Sen. Nigel Carty said Tuesday’s Cabinet Meeting was informed that the renovation of the IT Centre to be located at the C.A. Paul Southwell Industrial Estate will be completed by the end of August and that all equipment should be installed by September.

So says St. Kitts and Nevis’ Prime Minister Hon. Dr. Denzil L. Douglas, who also disclosed plans to establish a National Foundation for the Advancement of the Information Society

In order to fund capital projects in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for the coming year, the IT sector has been allotted approximately EC$6.7M, which represents an 89 percent increase in comparison to last year’s allocation.

The increase was reported during the 2009 Budget Address delivered by the Minister of Finance, Dr. the Hon. Timothy Harris, on Tuesday, December 16.

Plans for the improvement of the ICT Centre can now move along with the half-million-dollar input from the Taiwanese government.

According to Colin Frank, head of the ICT Centre, the ICT will increase productivity and transparency.

“It is also intended to provide greater access to technology, training and communication for all members of the community with special emphasis placed on the disadvantaged,” Frank said in an exclusive interview with Sun St. Kitts/Nevis.

Prime Minister Dr. Denzil L. Douglas reported that concrete steps have been taken to realise the goals of building a knowledge- based economy and an e-society through offering universal access to and the use of modern information and communications technologies.

As the Egyptian government undergoes a series of transformations, upcoming policy measures applied to the ICT sector will be paramount in spurring innovation and securing consistent growth for the future.

These elements are interconnected and will require a holistic approach, implemented in conjunction with private-sector ICT players. The end result will be a stronger innovation environment, not only for the ICT sector but for the national economy.

Mark Walker, director of vertical and end-user research practice at IDC Middle East, Africa and Turkey, says the most significant change from last year's predictions is the overall size of the market and the growing global interest in the Sub-Saharan region.

“There has been significant interest in the area in terms of development and it is seen as a sort of antidote for investment following the impact of the recession on other markets,” says Walker.

She specifically urged them to use ICT to ‘revolutionize’ agribusiness in Ghana.

Madam Clarke gave the advice during an interaction with students of the Computer Science Department of Ho Polytechnic in Ho.

The consultant, Dr. Paulos Nyirenda, who has since compiled a report called ‘Malawi ICT Sector Key ICT indicators on Infrastructure’ says a number of organisations in Malawi, including the National Statistical Office (NSO) and the Malawi Communication Regulatory Authority (MACRA), have made attempts to collect and present data on the ICT sector in Malawi.

The Malta Communications Authority (MCA) published the results of a survey on the use of ICT by minors.

The survey, carried out earlier this year among students attending primary school years 4 to 6 and secondary schools forms 1 to 4, confirmed that minors are generally “technologically savvy” and intense users of ICT applications.

Collaboration between Africans and the rest of the world is important with regard to the development of ICT in Africa, he said at the opening of the EuroAfriCa-ICT Awareness Workshop in Kampala on Monday.

Africa has one extension worker per 4,000 farmers, compared with one per 200 hundred farmers in developed countries, the conference, Innovations in Extension and Advisory Services: Linking Knowledge to Policy and Action for Food and Livelihoods, heard last month (15-18 November).

The Telecom Equipment and Services Export Promotion Council (TEPC), on Saturday called for the establishment of a greater Information and Communication Technology in Africa and the developing world.

The Director-General, TEPC, Shri Rajesk Kumar Bhatnagar said in a statement that the Indo-Africa ICT Expo and Summit 2017 was an avenue where African ICT experts would fashion the future of the industry.

With a growing economy based on small to midsize enterprises specializing in IT, biotech and nanotechnology, Suwon companies with 50 or fewer employees make up 94 percent of all employers in the city -- and collectively, small businesses in general make a large contribution to the economic diversity of small communities, as noted in the research paper called "The Role of Small Business in Economic Growth and Poverty Alleviation in West Virginia: An Empirical Analysis".

Dr Peter Tomsu of Cisco Systems explains that the phrase Next Generation Network (NGN) describes an integrated, open network architecture that provides voice, data and multimedia services over the same network. He argues that integrated networking itself is not something specifically new citing Broadband ISDN, then ATM, and Multi Service Networks which all tried to deliver integrated service offerings.

Advances in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) have dramatically changed the learning and teaching process, and have expanded new learning opportunities and access to educational resources beyond the domain of tradition.