'To learn from each others’ experiences and to provide input for the development of a national policy, telemedicine practitioners and other stakeholders from around Tanzania gathered for their second telemedicine platform meeting.'

'The growth of U.S. trade with China since China entered the World Trade Organization in 2001 has had a devastating effect on U.S. workers and the domestic economy. Between 2001 and 2007 2.3 million jobs were lost or displaced, including 366,000 in 2007 alone. New demographic research shows that, even when re-employed in non-traded industries, the 2.3 million workers displaced by the increase in China trade deficits in this period have lost an average $8,146 per worker/year. In 2007, these l more...

'The movement of business activity from developed economies to developing economies—commonly called offshoring—has become the focus of heated debates. Behind these debates lies a pivotal question of scale: How much business activity and how many jobs are at stake? Official statistics are nearly silent, and private-sector researchers vary widely in their estimates of the number of U.S. jobs that have moved offshore, will move offshore, or could move offshore. In an effort to address this gap more...

'Rolf Janke of SAGE Reference reports back on some of the e-book and e-reference discussions at the London Book Fair.' Research Information: June / July 2008.

Depuis la sortie, au mois de mai 2007, de l’avis du Conatel (Conseil National de Télécommunication), les Fournisseurs d’accès à Internet locaux s’inquiètent de leur devenir sur le marché local. Pourquoi cette inquiétude? Est-elle justifiée? Seraient ils victimes d’une fausse interprétation programmée par le Conatel lui même concernant la publication de son avis et les modalités/conditions d’autorisation d’utilisation des fréquences WiMAX?

Fishermen, traders, and consumers have all benefited from the fishing industry’s adoption of mobile phones in Kerala, India, according to research published by Robert Jensen, a visiting professor at Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies, in this month’s Quarterly Journal of Economics. In one of the first rigorous, empirical studies of the benefits of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in poor countries, Jensen goes beyond the largely anecdotal body of e more...

This is a brief outline of the issue on 'A Perfect Market—A Survey of E-Commerce’, which came in The Economist, May, 2004. A survey study by Department of Commerce, United States of America, reveals that online retail sales in the USA rose by 26%, to US $55 billion in 2003, which is 1.6% of total retail sales. It is expected that e-commerce will grow bigger in the coming days. The Internet is becoming influential in preferring for e-commerce (online trading) instead of simply buying from the more...

According to the UN News service, UNWTO and WISeKey announced an agreement today to expand the use of traveller identification and authentication technologies in the multibillion dollar tourism sector.

This collaboration builds on the Public Private Partnership agreement signed by UNWTO and Microsoft in 2006. The partners will seek to deliver YouTourist as a unique e-Tourism Social Network. Based on WISeKey Digital Identification and Microsoft Cardspace technologies, this platform allows tour more...

www.senegal-entreprises.net est un site d'appui au développement des petites et moyennes entreprises (PME) au Sénégal qui propose de l'information sur des stratégies et institutions d'appui ainsi que des informations concernant l'environnement de l'entreprise telles que foires et expositions, marketing, import-export, création d'entreprise, comptabilité, accès au finance-ment, taxes et impôts et des formulaires de plan d'affaires et de comptabilité. Le site est proposé par l'Agence de more...

The KAM uses more then 80 structural and qualitative variables for a group of 128 countries to generate a range of comparative data tables, charts and diagrams for a simple visual representation of different aspects of countries’ Knowledge Economy readiness. Various modes can display and compare countries’ overall Knowledge (KI) and Knowledge Economy (KEI) indexes and demonstrate performance scores on the four main Knowledge Economy pillars: Economic Incentive and Institutional Regime, Educa more...