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There are a number of Google products that sound like they share the same name and as such confusion may arise between what’s what. So here is a brief of explanation of the most commonly confused Google offerings. Google Apps: This is a set of online office productivity tools like email, chat, word processing, spreadsheets [...]

The three commonly touted benefits to free and open source software (FOSS) in government are: (a) that it is inexpensive and so demonstrates that a government agency is being fiscally responsible and using taxpayer monies frugally, (b) that it avoids a government agency getting “locked in” to a commercial supplier, and (c) that it can [...]

I developed the TADA framework after a number of years witnessing technology-oriented projects and programs in the international development arena failing due to their strong bias towards only technological artefacts – i.e. desktops, notebooks, servers, software, web sites, etc. As ICT was viewed by commercial organisations throughout the 1990′s and perhaps up to the ‘dot [...]

Dr. Yumita, the Executive Engineering Director of NHK (Nippon Hoso Kyokai, in English, the Japan Broadcasting Corporation) was a panel member in the last session of the ITU World Telecom 2009 Conference. During the panel discussion he outlined his vision for the next generation of TV currently in development. He explained that Japan is working [...]

Today I experimented with the creation of an application in Python to run on the new Google App Engine (GAE) infrastructure. Things couldn’t have been easier. I whipped up a .yaml file, created a couple of Python classes, a simple CSS stylesheet and HTML form (to give the application a face) then ran a single [...]