Wifi for UK Care Homes
Four Seasons Health Care, which runs 370 care homes in the UK and houses 20,000 people, recently installed WiFi in all homes to improve residents’ quality of life. Residents note various positive impacts this has had on their lives. For…
WEF Ranks Countries Striving for Full Digital Inclusion
The “World Economic Forum’s Global Information Technology Report 2015: ICTs for Inclusive Growth,” evaluates countries that are exploiting the opportunities ICT has to offer and bridging the digital divide through the Network Readiness Index (NRI). The NRI takes into account…
Improving Digital Accessibility in Australia
Australia strongly promotes the use of ICTs for a variety of government services. However, given the digital divide in the country, they must provide digital literacy training to ensure that all citizens, particularly those with statistically lower levels of access…
New Digital Literacy Training Centers in South Africa
Parks Tau, the executive mayor of Johannesburg, recognizes the infrastructural barriers to mass digital literacy in the city. Currently, 50% of the city’s residents do not have internet access. To bridge this digital gap, he has developed the Digital Ambassadors…
ICT on the Agenda for AfDB Presidential Candidate
Akinwumi Adesina, Nigeria’s Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development has made great strides for the country’s agricultural sector. His successes include solving corruption in the fertilizer industry and encouraging banks to lend to farmers. In 2012, he pioneered an e-wallet…
Avanti Communications Provides ICT Infrastructure and eLearning in Tanzania
Avanti Communications will provide ICT infrastructure and eLearning programmes for Tanzanian teachers through the iKnowledge programme, as part of a contract with the UK Space Agency’s International Partnership Space Programme. The communications company is a prime candidate for the contract,…
Pakistan Promotes Digital Inclusion
The Pakistani Minister of State for Information technology recently attended the GSMA Mobile World Congress Summit on “Digital Inclusion” in Barcelona. Here she emphasized the challenge of including all members of society in ICT and mentions the government’s particular focus…
Knowledge-Sharing Partnership ENhANCEs ICT Education in East Africa
Aalto University’s ENhANCE project is an attempt to bridge the infrastructural ‘digital divide’ in African countries and support the growing ICT sector. In this project, which began in May 2013, the Finnish University has partnered with the Addis Ababa Institute…
Increased Well-Being through the Internet of Everything
Municipalities throughout the United States are employing the Internet of Everything (IoE) to improve their residents’ quality of life. San Jose, Kansas City, and Montgomery County are all implementing a wide variety of such initiatives to increase well-being among citizens….
