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Do ICTs contribute to or alleviate climate change?
Over the coming months, there will be much talk about ICTs and global climate change and e waste. There will be bad and good research and tricks to raise taxes in the name of the environment. Here is a nice balanced report by the Economist:
So computing does indeed have a role in [...]
Does a websearch kill a tree?
According to this research finding, Google is warming the planet by giving us fast websearches.
Performing two Google searches from a desktop computer can generate about the same amount of carbon dioxide as boiling a kettle for a cup of tea, according to new research.
While millions of people tap into Google without considering the environment, a [...]
On LIRNEasia.net’s policy of no editorial control
The following column on LBO.LK discusses an issue that has involved one of the discussion threads in the website.
LANKA BUSINESS ONLINE – LBO
Recently, the blog has become controversial. Since April 2006, one thread has been used by various persons to discuss Sri Lankan ICT policy issues, with emphasis on the appropriate standards for [...]
Microsoft backs mobiles to access Internet
Microsoft Would Put Poor Online by Cellphone
By JOHN MARKOFF
Published: January 30, 2006
DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan. 29 — It sounds like a project that just about any technology-minded executive could get behind: distributing durable, cheap laptop computers in the developing world to help education. But in the year since Nicholas Negroponte, the founder of the Massachusetts Institute [...]
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