Kenya has emerged as a major global testing point for the use of mobile heath, or m-health, technology to advance public health and development goals—providing examples of both the ingenuity of locally-sourced solutions and the challenges that remain to providing wide access. More than half of Kenya’s population owns mobile phones, with 18 million people [...]
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Service providers move to guarantee access
Posted by Senior Director, Juliette Terzieff: Google has joined Twitter as the latest major Internet player to limit content as needed on a country-by-country basis as a means to answer varied restrictions that could prevent the provision of services. Twitter announced earlier this year it would be censoring tweets by country—meaning that if a tweet [...]
Google sets sights on slavery battle
Google has taken a strong stance against modern-day slavery as part of the company’s wide-ranging CSR efforts. The Internet giant recently donated $11.5 million in grants across ten organizations to help fight against “an existence that is almost unfathomable in its degradation and inhumanity” that “millions of human beings are subjected to” daily. From debt [...]
Google policy update sparks debate
Google’s new privacy policy—intended to answer concerns about the Internet giant’s efforts to protect users—has triggered a new round of debate from users and governments about the sharing of data. Google claims that it has revised its privacy policy, combining more than 60 policies into one, in order to clarify and make standards more accessible [...]
Japan a leader in global plastic recycling
Japan has been one of the top leaders in the world over the past 10 years when it comes to recycling plastics. In 2010, 77 percent of plastic waste was recycled, a gain of 4 percent from 2006, putting Japan far ahead the United Kingdom’s 38 percent and a 20 percent recycling rate for the [...]
Egyptian mothers take to the Internet
SuperMama, an Egyptian website designed to help new mothers and mothers-to-be with accurate pregnancy and motherly advice hasn’t even had its first birthday, but the site, brought to life by Yasmine El-Mehairy, has already won business competitions. The site reached 20,000 unique hits in its first month and attracted 2,000 members when it launched in [...]
EU moves to restrict Syria surveillance technology sales
The European Union (EU) has cracked down on the sale of surveillance technology to Syria that would enable the Syrian government to intercept text messages and peruse e-mail content of any of its citizens. Syria has been in the grips of severe crisis since mid-2011 after President Bashar al-Assad launched a bloody crackdown in response [...]
Internet Companies, Stakeholders Back Energy Efficiency
When Internet giants such as Facebook, Yahoo!, Twitter and Google leave a large carbon footprint, activist stakeholders like Greenpeace are going to notice. Greenpeace has been campaigning on increased energy efficiency in the sector and in 2011 released its report—How dirty is your data?—on the pollution cloud the IT sector was generating. Greenpeace has “argued [...]
Wikileaker? The FBI Wants Your Email
The long arm of the law reaches deep into cyberspace, secretly. The U.S. government has obtained a controversial type of secret court order to force Google Inc. and small Internet provider Sonic.net Inc. to turn over information from the email accounts of WikiLeaks volunteer Jacob Appelbaum, according to documents reviewed by The Wall Street [...]
China is an online tinderbox
With access to information on the web and an economic slowdown on the way, China may be in for some changes. The Party tries to contain the tempest that is brewing. China recently summoned the heads of various internet companies to Beijing to “discuss” how to deal with unwanted speech online. The Chinese Communist [...]
