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- LEARN Brings IT Skills Training and Opportunities to Bangladeshis
- Since 1997, LEARN has made computer-based local wireless networks available to rural areas of Bangladesh. The charity also provides start-up capital and technology training to young, local entrepreneurs. In 1997, LEARN created and deployed a local, computer-based wireless network in rural districts of northeastern Bangladesh. In partnership with Microsoft Unlimited...
- Tags: Information Technology, Entrepreneur, Bangladesh, Microsoft Corp., Training, Wireless Network, Entrepreneurship, Wi-Fi, Workforce Management, Productivity, Training And Certification, Wireless And Mobility, Management, Human Resources
- Case studies 2009-06-01
- Bangladesh to be poster child of rising ocean levels
- Map courtesy of CIA and U.S. taxpayers. Welcome to ground zero of climate change. Or zero elevation which is the same thing. Bangladesh is a flat, low-lying country with dense population, little money and big problems. Here's a report from a reporter's recent visit...
- Tags: Bangladesh, Iowa, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-02-06
- Developing hurricane-proof homes
- Engineers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham UAB have developed fiber-based composite materials for low-cost residential coastal housing. Homes built with this material would be able to resist to a hurricane by bending instead of breaking. Other houses could 'simply float on the rising tide of a storm's coastal...
- Tags: Bangladesh, Material, Home, Fiber, Nasim Uddin, Network Technology, Networking, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-12-26
- Challenging Silicon Valley to put poverty into a museum . . .
- I'm not washing my right hand for a while because I used it to shake the hand of Muhammad Yunus, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize recipient and a person that I've held in the highest regard for many years. Mr Yunus gave the keynote speech at the Tech Museum's Tech...
- Tags: Bangladesh, Entrepreneurship, Grameen Bank, Grameen Loan, Leadership, Management, Muhammad Yunus, Poverty, Silicon Valley, Strategy, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-11-13
- SICT Implements Imaging Database to Reduce Disputes Over Land Ownership in Central Bangladesh
- The Support to ICT Task Force SICT Programme is a project initiated by the Government of Bangladesh to implement e-governance throughout the nation. The company wanted to manage digital images of maps to determine land ownership and deliver seamless integration between the image-capture software and the database. The challenge was...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Imaging, Bangladesh, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
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- What do Bill Gates and other billionaires see as the world's #1 problem?
- It's not peak oil and it's not war. But it is a greentech issue. It's population growth. But without unbridled population growth it's very hard to maintain economic growth. This issue strikes at the very heart of 21st Century business and politics. That's why we...
- Tags: Bill Gates, Population Growth, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-09-29
- U.N.'s Ban Ki-moon warns of 'abyss" and 'widespread disaster'
- Those are some of the words from the U.N. Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, speaking in Geneva this morning. He was at a World Climate Conference, having just paid a personal visit to to the Arctic where melt is happenin'. Ban says the Arctuic is warming faster than anywhere else...
- Tags: Global Warming, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-09-03
- We don't know what we don't know
- We don't know what we don't knowShock! I thought the debate was over...You mean we really don't know everything? You mean we have no idea why more and more reliable scientific studies show that we are currently in a global cooling trend? You mean we don't know why there has...
- Tags: carbon dioxide, global warming
- Discussion threads 2009-07-14
- Class war and open source
- One of India's main political parties, the BJP, has decided to make open source a focus of its new election manifesto. (BJP logo from Brandsoftheworld.com.) Why? Class. While India has a large, educated middle class, it has a much larger number of poor, and...
- Tags: India, Party, BJP, IT Vision Document, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-03-16
- Climate change: less could mean more. That's not good
- An update to the most recent IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] report warns that even smaller temperature increases could mean even larger real life changes than earlier IPCC projections. This study was authored by a panel of scientists whoare members of the IPCC. Apparently the IPCC formal...
- Tags: Scientist, Sea Level, IPCC, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-02-24
- Oops, this is happening faster than predicted
- Greenhouse gases, especially carbon dioxide are accumulating faster than predicted. Now scientists are saying that global warming is going to happen much faster than the current U.N. commission's warnings. One leader of the the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said the nations of the world face two choices...
- Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Scientist, Choice, Global Warming, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-02-16
- News to know: Windows 7; Tax software guide; Extending your system's life
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily . For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage Robin Harris: Give your system a mid-life kicker Ed Bott: How well does Windows 7 handle 512MB? Andrew Nusca: ZDNet's Ultimate Tax...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Phone, Microsoft Windows 7, Tax, Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., Smart Phones, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Microsoft Windows, Telecom & Utilities, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-02-09
- Good news: Washington D.C. may be doomed to inundation
- New projections of the effects of melting Anarctic ice caps: sea waves above Washington D.C. The researchers project sea level variation will not be uniform around the globe. It will be much higher in North America and the Indian Ocean. And, they say, if the entire West...
- Tags: Washington D.C., Sea Level, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-02-07
- Bangladesh to be poster child of rising ocean levels
- Bangladesh to be poster child of rising ocean levelsI love the apocalyptic predictions ofhorrible weather resulting from global warming when not a single climate model takes precipitation into account because we don't know how to model it.Maybe global warming will cause long, gentle rains and huge increases in snowfall in...
- Tags: global warming
- Discussion threads 2009-02-06
- Inside India's CAPTCHA solving economy
- No CAPTCHA can survive a human that's receiving financial incentives for solving it, and with an army of low-waged human CAPTCHA solvers officially in the business of "data processing" while earning a mere $2 for solving a thousand CAPTCHA's, I'm already starting to see evidence of consolidation between India's major...
- Tags: CAPTCHA, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- LinuxWorld keynotes: Now is the time to invest.
- LinuxWorld keynotes: Now is the time to invest.It hasn't been that long ago...my company got rid of its last Green screen based network in favor of a fancy Windows based network at several of our branch offices. Guess what. We didn't pick up one iota of productivity gain. We...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Loverock Davidson, NOW IS, LinuxWorld, Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-08-05
- News When It Happens 1 (Windows)
- Get the News from 70 different sites around the world in English, with the Google search bar. Including CNN, ABC, Afganistan, Africa, Aljazeera, Asia, Australia, Bangladesh, BBC, BNN, CBC, CBS, China, Chechnya, Cuba, France, Fox, Global, Greece, India and Google, Yahoo. Get all news when it happens. This version is...
- Tags: Google Inc., Sidebar Gadgets, Microsoft Windows, Cloud Computing, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2008-06-27
- Currency (UIQ3) (Mobile)
- FEATURES - 137 currencies; - conversion between any given currency; - retrieving currency rates using an Internet connection.STARTUP AND SETTING RATES1. Start the application 2. In Options/Settings, select your Base currency, and your Internet access point you should do it only once 3. Add or remove currencies to the list...
- Tags: Mobile, Currency, Internet, Sales Force Management, Sales
- Software downloads 2008-06-23
- Global warming makes you sick
- Global warming makes you sickActually, reading blogs like this, makes me sick.Global warming is a farce, with last years average temperature down by a full degree, the same temperature average as 100 years ago.Climate changes happen...From ice ages to tropic ages. A couple of good volcano eruptions put out...
- Tags: global warming
- Discussion threads 2008-04-08
- Global warming makes you sick
- Global warming is also a health crisis, says the World Health Organization. Speaking as part of yesterday's World Health Day festivities, Director General Dr. Margaret Chan said the increased storms, floods, droughts and heat waves accompanying warming are already stressing health systems worldwide. Examples?...
- Tags: Health Care, Global Warming, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-04-08
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