EFFECTIVE government policy in Thailand could increase mobile and fixed broadband penetration to 133 per cent by 2020, up from 52 per cent in 2013, according to a report by GSMA, an international association of mobile operators and related companies. This growth would lead to a cumulative increase in gross domestic product of US$23 billion…
The company will pay for two people to work toward those goals for a year at two local nonprofits. The fellows will team with the Triangle Literacy Council and the Kramden Institute to provide training and access to computers, possibly through a mobile computing lab. “We care deeply about getting people online, and we have…
In a recent Lok Sabha session, Rahul Gandhi, Vice-President of the Indian National Congress accused the Modi Government of trying to carve out the ‘Net and hand it over to the corporates. According to him, over one million people are fighting for net neutrality on various social media platforms. Obviously, Mr. Gandhi was trying to…
Now every government college of Himachal Pradesh will have internet and Wi-Fi connections through which the students will be able to surf the e-library easily. Under the Rashtriya Ucchattar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA), 25 government degree colleges in the state have been provided with a sum of Rs 6.35 crore. The colleges have received an amount…
Only one-third of the total Indian population with access to the Internet are women, says a survey conducted by Google. The survey revealed that 49 percent of women do not see any reason to access the Internet. “While there is low awareness about the benefits of Internet amongst women in India, there are many who…
Firms such as Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. will face stiffer fines if they violate Europe’s “right to be forgotten” online rules, according to a draft text agreed by European Union ambassadors on Wednesday, diplomatic sources said. E.U. member states are negotiating an overhaul of the bloc’s outdated privacy laws in a bid to make…
China’s military says the internet has become its main ideological battlefield and that it should build a “Great Wall” online to protect the country’s citizens from “hostile Western forces.” A strongly worded editorial (link in Chinese) published in the People’s Liberation Army Daily on May said: “If we don’t occupy the internet, someone else well. If we don’t defend this territory,…
A judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought against a classified ads site used by pimps to facilitate underage prostitution, arguing that the “internet freedom” of website operators trumped the rights of three girls who were trafficked and raped. The girls argued that Backpage, a US classified advertising website jointly owned by Village Voice Media Holdings…
About 60 digital rights groupsfrom several nations across the globe, including India, the U.S., the Netherlands, Germany, Brazil, Austria and others, have criticized Facebook’s Internet.org initiative, saying that it undermines net neutrality. In an open letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg , the groups, some of whom have worked in the area of providing connectivity to the poor,…
[message_box title=”” color=”red”]The hottest topic at Mobile World Congress 2015 will connect billions of people and things to the internet and one another without wires.[/message_box] While much of the world is connecting their personal devices to fast data sharing 4G mobile networks, industry pioneers are shaping next generation networks to feed the world’s increasing appetite…