ITU presented a new report yesterday at the World Telecommunication Development Conference in Hyderabad and called for broadband Internet access for half the world’s population by 2015. The Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO) stressed the need to utilize ICT’s in a way that enhances development.
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Earlier this month the Australian government released the National Broadband Network Implementation Study, prepared by McKinsey and KPMG.
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Europe’s digital economy is growing in strength, spreading throughout all sectors of the economy and reaching into all areas of the lives of its citizens, according to a report published by the European Commission.
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ITU and UNESCO announced the establishment of a Broadband Commission for Digital Development. It will work on strategies to harness the transformational power of broadband and accelerate progress towards the MDGs.
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The American Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has decided to take a “third approach” to regulating broadband carriers, partially classifying them as “common carriers” under Title 2 of the Communications Act. This would allow the FCC to control the transmission component of broadband Internet, but not rates or content.
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Today, INTUG released a paper on cloud computing, which talks about IT companies embracing the cloud computing opportunity as a way of providing additional services to their existing and potential customers.
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On 19 April the EU ministers responsible for the Information Society policy of the European Union member states and the European Economic Area agreed on the new digital agenda for the next ten years.
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