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Thursday, March 22, 2007

world information society report 2006 



World information Society Report 2006

New Report Tracks Strong Gains in the Information Society Worldwide

Strong gains have been achieved in digital opportunity around the world, according to a new report from the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). The World Information Society Report is part of ITU’s contribution to the 2006 session of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), which is meeting in Geneva from 3rd to 28th.

The Asian economies of the Republic of Korea and Japan continue to lead in digital opportunity, due to their pioneering take-up of broadband and 3G mobile services. Nearly all Internet subscribers in the Republic of Korea are broadband subscribers, whilst Japan is the only market where Internet subscribers are most likely to access Internet over their mobile. Dramatic progress has been achieved by developing countries, however, which made the greatest progress in digital opportunity - notably India, where digital opportunity nearly doubled between 2001 and 2005, and China, which experienced remarkably strong gains in infrastructure. Different countries are following their own paths in telecommunication development, with some countries leveraging their investments in infrastructure more successfully than others.

In response to the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) goals, the report tracks the changing dynamics driving the Information Society worldwide, with a new tool—the Digital Opportunity Index (DOI)—that evaluates the opportunity, infrastructure and utilization of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for 180 economies worldwide. The Index monitors the mobile communications that promise to bridge the digital divide in many parts of the world, as well as more recent technologies such as broadband and mobile Internet access. The price of broadband continues to fall worldwide, by as much as twenty per cent a year over the last two years according to ITU’s analysis, while broadband speeds continue to increase. These trends are not restricted to developed countries, however, with broadband now commercially available in 166 countries worldwide.




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Friday, March 09, 2007

a million change agents 



Towards a Million Change Agents, a review of the social movements literature: implications for large scale change in the NHS


16 August 2004


This
review explores 'social movements' as a new way of thinking about
large-scale systems change and assesses the potential contribution of
applying this new perspective to NHS improvement.This review explores
'social movements' as a new way of thinking about large-scale systems
change and assesses the potential contribution of applying this new
perspective to NHS improvement.

[now, if only this site will let me downlaod it]





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NHS Modernisation Agency

Friday, March 02, 2007

e-infrastructure 



ForSociety :: Electronic Infrastructures: from ICT to collaborative science and innovation networks

e-infrastructure is here a topic for a future dialogue and maybe in the future collaborative Foresight.





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