Cover -- Titel -- Impressum -- Inhaltsverzeichnis -- Geleitwort von Ruedi Noser, Präsident ICTswitzerland (zur ersten Auflage 978-3-658-00180-3) -- Geleitwort von Jürgen Dierlamm, Geschäftsführer itSMF Deutschland e.V. (zur zweiten Auflage) -- Vorwort (zur ersten Auflage) -- Vorwort (zur...

Digital technologies are spreading rapidly, but digital dividends-the broader benefits of faster growth, more jobs, and better services-are not. If more than 40 percent of adults in East Africa pay their utility bills using a mobile phone, why can't others around the world do the same? If 8...

The purpose of this document is to report on the pilot portal developed for the IT Convergence between Data Centres Pilot Study. It details the data and services that have been included, illustrates how the services were developed, describes any problems that occurred during its development and...

In his 2002 book, High Noon, economist and former World Bank vice president Jean Francois Rischard stressed that in order to address urgent, global issues, the world nedded "imagination and a different type of thinking"-and needed it within two decades, not five or ten.

Innovation, particularly technological innovation, is widely touted as a panacea for development.