Information Policy

Azerbaijan's ICT sector grows more than six times – minister

Annual growth rates of the sphere of information and information technology was 20%-25% over the last 10 years.

The statement came from Communications and Information Technology Minister of Azerbaijan Ali Abbasov in his interview with official website of the ruling New Azerbaijan Party.

Nepal Funds ICT Education for Schools

“By improving our education policies, we can become an education hub for the entire South Asian region.”

In this recent statement given in Kathmandu, Minister of Education (MoE) Madhav Prasad Paudel cast his vision of Nepal’s future. He also added, “The gulf between the rich and the poor is widening due to the current education system. The government should focus on ICT (Information and Communications Technology Education) to narrow down the gap between the rich and the poor.”

The MoE mandated the ICT in Education five-year Master Plan in March 2013. This ICT in Education Plan hopes to provide the necessary ICT skills to students, increase access to learning material, and encourage the effectiveness and efficiency of education governance.

The government of Nepal has allocated one billion Nepalese Rupees (USD 10.3 million) to provide its 8,711 government-run secondary schools with computers and internet access. The Department of Education (DOE) informed District Education Offices that they would be receiving the required funds to purchase five computers, one printer, and internet access. The Education Manpower Development Centre would arrange for skilled teachers to be assigned to conduct interactive ICT classes with the goal of integrating ICT infrastructure into the course program.

Feedly Drives More Traffic To News Sites Than RSS

News sites are the third biggest traffic driver to other news sites, a new reporthas found. The first monthly 'authority report' was published by analytics platform Parse.ly. The report "takes a look at the state of the industry as assessed from our analytics data spanning 5 billion page views per month", John Levitt from Parse.ly told Journalism.co.uk by email. The research analysed data from "hundreds of online news publishers", all of which are Parse.ly clients, and found, perhaps unsurprisingly, that Google was the top driver of traffic in July, followed by Facebook

Source: http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/report-other-publishers-are-third-biggest-traffic-driver-to-news-sites/s2/a553926/

Nigeria: Odili-Idiagbor: Better governance through e-government

THE fact that the United Nations Global e-Government Survey scored Nigeria low comes as a surprise to no one.  What is surprising, however, is how governments continually start off with noble ideas and concepts but always fail woefully at implementation. From engineering to software projects, as we progress through initialization to implementation, as soon as money is earmarked, the projects are doomed.  This continues to happen time and time again but it seems no lessons have been learnt, as we embark on these white elephant projects that don’t materialize.  

Dutch Pirate Bay blocking ineffective

By Robert Briel

The blockade of The Pirate Bay has had little effect on the extent to which consumers download illegally, according to research at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and CenterData (Tilburg University).