Nokia has announced a new project that aims to develop 500 digitally integrated and sustainable villages across India in line with government’s vision of Digital India. According to the ITU, 20% of households in developed Read more…
Mature Asia-Pacific economies continue to top the Asia Cloud Computing Association’s Cloud Readiness Index (CRI) 2018 rankings, with Singapore and Hong Kong ahead of much larger emerging APAC markets such as China, India, and Indonesia. Read more…
Next week at Mobile World Congress you are going to be getting an earful (and eyeful) about smart cities – tech, solutions, use cases, case studies and demos demos demos. But will these technologies really Read more…
Every January, big technology trends become more central to key discussions as the world’s top business and political leaders gather at the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland.It reflects the growing importance of ICTs Read more…
By harnessing data science, mobile operators can start to engage prepaid users and better understand what kinds of services they need. Over the past decade, more than half of the names on the Fortune 500 Read more…
Connecting the unconnected to digital services starts with the realization that digital services aren’t designed for them, says Bharti Airtel Global CIO Harmeen Mehta. We hear a lot about connecting the next billion to the Read more…
A “Gender Equality Hackathon” organized by Foraus and the Impact Hub Geneva recently hosted a two-and-a-half day SDG Accelerator #policyhack with Think Tank Hub and the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (DFAE) aimed at Read more…
DAKAR (Reuters) – Rapidly expanding access to the internet across Africa is helping grassroots opposition movements take on once-invulnerable regimes. Many entrenched rulers have a simple response: pulling the plug. While countries in the Middle Read more…
5G Asia is underway in Singapore, and a lot of the talk is about operator trials, business cases, timelines, spectrum and the challenges of millimeter-wave signal degradation in crowded areas. Unless you ask Google, then Read more…
Decentralized banking services powered by blockchain and AI could widen financial inclusion, but trust is critical, say ITU Telecom World panelists “AI is going to eliminate jobs.” “Jobs will not be eliminated, they will simply Read more…
Future economic growth for many countries will increasingly depend on domestic tech innovation. That’s why the annual ITU Telecom World event is increasingly focused on including the tech start-ups and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) that are Read more…
Developers, startups and tech titans are all racing to create a new set of voice-powered and video-centric applications aimed at meeting the needs of the world’s “next billion” mobile Internet users, many of whom hail Read more…
Top-level government, business and United Nations leaders have called for global action to ensure broadband Internet access for all or risk that some vulnerable populations could fall deeper into the digital divide. The leaders came together in New Read more…
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook said on Thursday it had completed a second test of an unmanned aircraft designed to some day beam internet access to remote parts of the planet, and unlike in the Read more…
Huawei Technologies and Banglalink have jointly deployed Huawei’s Butterfly Site solution to profitably connect the unconnected in rural areas. Huawei says the solution helped Banglalink optimize the TCO structure of rural sites and resolve the Read more…
ITEM: Thailand’s long-awaited new frequency law, the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission Establishment Act, came into force on Thursday. The new act finally consolidates the two broadcasting and telecommunications boards into one and allows for Read more…
The digital divide isn’t just an issue of rich vs poor – 1.75 billion people in the world’s eight richest countries by GDP remain unconnected, with 34% residing in major urban centers. That’s according to Read more…
Asian millennials see artificial intelligence, IoT and virtual reality as key technologies for achieving world peace, according to a survey released by Telenor Group. The regional online survey – which covers Telenor’s markets in Bangladesh, Read more…
As digitally-developed economies around the globe continue to make larger investments in ICT, digitally-developing economies are also accelerating growth by investing strategically in ICT capabilities and their digital transformation journeys – yet the gap between Read more…
With just a few days to go before Mobile World Congress 2017, the GSMA has sharpened its lobbying knives with the release of two new reports urging governments and regulators to lower spectrum prices and Read more…
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