Mobilizing technology for developing countries.

Global governance of technology: meeting the needs of developing countries

In 2000, world leaders adopted the United Nations Millennium Declaration in which they pledged to halve, by 2015, the proportion of the world’s people earning less than a dollar a day, suffering from hunger and unable to obtain safe drinking water. This paper argues that meeting these targets will entail concerted efforts to raise economic productivity in the developing world and to redirect re...

Online Social Networks and Terrorism 2.0 in Developing Countries

The advancement in technology has brought a new era in terrorism where Online Social Networks (OSNs) have become a major platform of communication with wide range of usage from message channeling to propaganda and recruitment of new followers in terrorist groups. Meanwhile, during the terrorist attacks people use OSNs for information exchange, mobilizing and uniting and raising money for the vi...

The Whodunit Challenge: Mobilizing the Crowd in India

While there has been a surge of interest in mobilizing the crowd to solve large-scale time-critical challenges, to date such work has focused on highincome countries and Internet-based solutions. In developing countries, approaches for crowd mobilization are often broader and more diverse, utilizing not only the Internet but also face-to-face and mobile communications. In this paper, we describ...

Models os soil conservation technology adoption in developing countries : the case of iran

The Effects of Broadband Infrastructure on Economic Growth in Developing Countries

In this paper we investigate the effects of broadband infrastructure providing high speed internet, on economic growth in developing countries. We have used two different broadband measures to classify developing countries into two groups for the period 1999-2008. By using logistic diffusion model and IV approach, a nonlinear diffusion model is specified. Differences in ceiling of diffusion cur...