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Mobile technology has the potential to revolutionise health care in developing countries, particularly in the area of heath awareness schemes and training health care professionals. Mobile phones are generally affordable and available to the population at large, making them more accessible than computers and far more cost-effective than hospital beds.

Envisage a condition in which all interactions with government can be done through one counter 24 hours a day, seven days a week, without waiting in lines. In the near future this will be possible if governments are willing to decentralise responsibilities, business processes, and if they start to use electronic means such as the Internet. Each citizen can then contact the government through a website where all forms, legislation, news and other information will be available.

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).

The UK should give increased emphasis to the use of ICT and other new technologies in improving health and health services in developing countries, according to Lord Crisp, the former NHS chief executive.

In a Global Health Partnerships report, Crisp suggests that new technology and approaches are not yet being seen as central to international development and more needs to be done to encourage local entrepreneurs to use ICT to improve health services themselves.

Broadband is becoming so vital for businesses and offers such competitive advantages that it is being compared to utilities such as water and electricity, contents The U.N. Conference on Trade and Development's "Information Economy Report 2006", released Thursday. This is disturbing news for developing countries, where broadband access is scarce and the basics needed to provide it at reasonable cost are often lacking.

The report says there are large differences between developed countries, where broadband is growing rapidly, and developing countries, where dial-up Internet connections are still prevalent when there are any connections at all.

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