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Entwicklungsländer / Developing countries

  • UN: Broadband access still scarce in developing countries

    Business use of broadband Internet remains scarce in developing countries, putting firms at a competitive disadvantage with businesses in industrialized countries, says a UN report released on Thursday.

    Broadband is becoming so vital for businesses and offers such competitive advantages that it is being compared to utilities such as water and electricity, says the Information Economy Report, issued by the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).

  • Why developing nations are defining the smart cities of the future

    • With most future urbanization projected in Africa and Asia, this is where to look to see the trends shaping the cities of the future.
    • High-tech, climate-positive infrastructure in smart cities will be key for sustainable outcomes.
    • Forward-looking civic authorities will aim to further integrate urban systems.

    In PCMC smart city just outside Pune, India, it used to take an hour to call an ambulance. Now, using integrated data systems for traffic management, health services and transport, emergency services take advantage of “green corridors” to cut through traffic, reaching those in need in half the time. They do this because the city’s authorities gather integrated data in their command-and-control centre, enabling teams to synchronize activities and work more efficiently. As a result, livability standards are increasing, and the energy efficiency of services improved by 50%.

  • World Bank punts e-development

    The payoffs of successful e-development projects are huge and can produce dramatic returns across a range of sectors in rich and poor countries if the risks involved are managed properly, says a World Bank report.

    Titled “E-Development: From Excitement to Effectiveness”, the report urges countries to learn from past lessons to implement effective projects.

    It has been issued in the lead up to the UN World Summit on Information Society to be held in Tunis from 16 to 18 November, and examines the Internet's record as a tool for development to date, and suggests lessons and policy recommendations to increase the impact and sustainability of e-development projects.

  • World Bank: Competition key to IT growth

    Poorer countries still fall short when it comes to making full use of various available information technologies, according to a World Bank study.

    In its latest report, entitled 'Information and Communications for Development 2006: Global Trends and Policies,' the bank found that governments in less-developed countries in particular could do much more to deregulate and open up the information-technology and telecommunications markets, which would ultimately lead to greater economic prosperity. Specifically, more competition would allow prices for access to telecommunications networks to come down and allow more people to use the system.

  • World's Poorest Nations Slowly Get Online

    An African diplomat from one of the world's 50 poorest nations, described as least developed countries (LDCs), once complained that it took about five to 10 years to get a landline telephone connection in his home country -- and an additional five years to get a dial tone on the new phone.

    But since the widespread availability of hand-held cellular phones over the last five years, most of the world's LDCs have made a quantum leap forward from one extreme to another: from no landline phones to an abundance of wireless phones.

  • World’s poorest countries increasingly wired, UN agency reports

    According to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), “teledensity” has more than doubled in the majority of least developed countries (LDCs) since 2000 with some of them boosting connectivity by as much as 20 times, thanks to rapid growth in the deployment of mobile technologies.

    According to ITU statistics, LDCs with the highest annual growth rate in terms of cellular subscribers over the period 2000-2005 were Djibouti, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Niger, Liberia, Mali, Sudan, Yemen and Laos. Prepaid services, accounting for almost 90 per cent of the entire market, have contributed to the explosive expansion of the mobile sector in LDCs. In Afghanistan, Chad, Djibouti, Eritrea, Haiti, Somalia and Niger all mobile subscriptions were prepaid.

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