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In the late 1980′s, timeshared computing resources allowed enterprises to gain reliable, high-performing computing services without the overhead of in-house computing infrastructure. Cloud computing targets the same enterprises, however, without the lock-in or inherent “stickyness” that timeshared computing service providers created and benefitted from. The commoditisation of cloud services has been able to go further [...]

This is the third article in a series aimed at the non-technical reader to help demystify ICT for development. This month we explore the concept of “green” ICT. What does it mean in practical terms for us as citizens, businesses and government? The term “green” ICT refers to an ever expanding set of practices, technologies [...]

This is the second article in a series aimed at the non-technical reader to help demystify ICT for development. This month we explore the concept of “green” ICT. What does it mean in practical terms for us as citizens, businesses and government? Welcome, to this the first article of a new series of monthly articles [...]

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 [...]