ICTD Corporation's Blog

Papua New Guinea is developing an ICT strategy to guide resource allocation and prioritisation in the education sector. Squarely focused on international trends, the strategy aims to use ICT to leverage particular national comparative advantages, emphasize energy efficiency and new technologies such as thin-client architecture, virtualisation and flash-based computing. The strategy also elevates the XO-PC to a [...]

This newspaper clipping was from a Papua New Guinean national newspaper in July, 2009. It shows a woman talking on a cellphone powered by a D-cell battery and some wires. Necessity is truly the mother of invention. It might be that solutions to the developed worlds resource limitations lie in developing countries. Developing countries have, [...]