The World in 2010: ICT Facts and Figures. ITU

Posted by Celia Walter | 21 Oct, 2010

These statistics from the International Telecommunication Union reveal that the number of Internet users worldwide doubled in the past five years and will surpass the two-billion mark in 2010, with...
http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/material/FactsFigures2010.pdf


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Seacom 17 000km submarine fibre-optic cable system

Posted by Celia Walter | 23 Jul, 2009
Seacom on Thursday announced that its 1,28 terabytes per second, 17 000km submarine fibre-optic cable system linking Southern and East Africa to global networks via India and Europe has been completed and commissioned...[More]From Mail and Guardian

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Social informatics: 2 sites from Intute.ac.uk

Posted by Celia Walter | 8 Jan, 2009
Social informatics
Social informatics is a comprehensive guide to research in the field of the interaction between society and information-communication technologies (ICT). It is provided by the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. There is an annotated bibliography of resources, which include journals, and lists of relevant professional associations, research centres and study programs. The webpage aims to be both an introductory guide to ICT research as well as serve advanced users. There is news and event information and an online forum.
http://www.social-informatics.org/

Social Informatics Resources
Social Informatics Resources is a wiki managed by Per Arne Godejord, Nesna University College, Norway. It aims to provide a guide to research resources and teaching materials for lecturers and students in social informatics and includes "video lectures, sound lectures, slideshare lectures, text based lectures, relevant search pages from Google, suggestions for curriculum and a guide to lecture SI". A student page has been established for "thoughts, comments and resources" contributed by students and others who wish to participate. The references are mainly in Norwegian. There are links to other social informatics wikis.
http://samfinfo.pbwiki.com/

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