Enhancing human development in developing regions: Do ICT and transport infrastructure matter?

A Scalable Enabling It Infrastructure for Developing Regions (ict4b)

There are thousands of stand-alone projects that aim to bring information and communication technology (ICT) to developing regions, but nearly all of them depend on existing hardware and infrastructure developed for affluent regions. As such, these imported technologies fail to address key challenges in cost, deployment, power, and support for populations with low levels of literacy and multipl...

Development Of An ICT Infrastructure For Internet Based Integration

Information Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructures supporting complex operations require collaborative effort to integrate a range of standalone software products into a coordinated system. However, the standalone products are normally developed with specific objectives and do not interoperate with each other. In a virtual enterprise environment, this imposes major challenges to ICT man...

ICTs and Education in Developing Countries: Do Policies Matter?

Dark Chocolate and Metabolic Syndrome; Do Polyphenols All that Matter?

Utilizing ICT for Sustainable Development in Developing Countries

The global economy is increasingly becoming dependent on ICT systems, while developing countries are critically operating under lack of e-readiness, newly evolved constraints, open competition, and unsteady sustainability policies. Infrastructure, content and human capacity are rapidly expanding through increased participation of private sector investment, though not with enough benefits to the...