In recent years, mobile phones have started to become popular in their use as a platform for ICT based development projects. This paper provides an implementation level analysis on the use of SIM card programming and application layer programming. This is a particularly important consideration when the program is to be run in developing nations due to the older handsets that are frequently used...

Information technology (IT) expenditures across various nations around the world have been impressive but controversial lately. Research is needed to know how IT expenditures are growing in different nations. Do developed nations show a different growth pattern than developing nations? Do stages of IT development or price drops in IT infrastructure influence such growth? We intend to explore th...

Developing a nation geared by the principle of sustainable development has been one of the piers in moulding a greater nation for Malaysia since its independence. This is seen by the act of joining the United Nations in 1957, just a month after gaining their independence. The United Nations is an international organization that aims to unite the nations worldwide based on justice, human dignity...

This study investigates factors that affect the adoption of information and communications technology (ICT) in Africa. The study also compares the ICT adoption factors in African nations with that of developed nations, represented by the Organization of Economic and Cooperative Development (OECD) over a period of over 21years. Using a large set of data from World Bank and pooled regression anal...

The International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, a United Nations program for the 1990s, focused attention on the increasing losses caused by natural hazards and promoted actions to reduce their impacts. During this period in the United States, disaster managers and other officials increased emphasis on mitigation relative to response and recovery, especially in programs of the Federal ...

BACKGROUND Nonrandom sampling of populations in developing nations has limitations and can inaccurately estimate health phenomena, especially among hard-to-reach populations such as rural residents. However, random sampling of rural populations in developing nations can be challenged by incomplete enumeration of the base population. METHODS We describe a stratified random sampling method usin...

This article will question the legality of measures of environmental ‘conditionality’ in the Generalized System of Preferences [GSP] of the European Community [EC]. The GSP is a GATT/WTO authorized scheme which permits developed nations to grant non-reciprocal tariff preferences in favour of developing countries. The objectives of the GSP are primarily development-oriented in that it aims to in...

globalisation has given birth to medical tourism. health and medical tourism are the fastest growing seg­ments in not only developed nations but in developing countries too. india has become a hot des­tina­tion, as the indian medical standards match up to the highly prescribed international standards at a very low cost. however, it is an unmixed blessing; along with advantages, it has many unin...

This perspective is a reflection of the Personal teaching experience of the authors. The aim of this perspective is to identify the weaknesses in the pharmacy curriculum development in Asian developing nations and to propose a methodological approach for curriculum validation. It has been seen that improper selection of the course contents were the common limitations found in the pharmacy curri...

PLoS Biology | http://biology.plosjournals.org Kofi Annan, the SecretaryGeneral of the United Nations, recently called attention to the clear inequalities in science between developing and developed countries and to the challenges of building bridges across these gaps that should bring the United Nations and the world scientifi c community closer to each other (Annan 2003). Mr. Annan stressed t...