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Issues For Developing Countries
From Havel to Habermas
29 11 2008 Twenty years on, amid huge technological, social and economic changes, it looks threadbare in both east and west: money matters too much, ideas too little. What, for example, does e-democracy (for example, wiki-style public input to lawmaking) mean for Mr Habermas’s deliberative model?
E-governance opportunity
28 11 2008 The need and scope for action along these lines has been outlined in the third Nasscom-McKinsey report (2005), which has noted that government spending on IT is only 0.13 per cent of GDP in India, compared to nearly double that (0.24 per cent) in China and nearly thrice as much (0.34 per cent) in the US. The report recommended that the government raise its IT budget by between $ 700 million and $1billion.
Could this be Uganda’s Google?
28 11 2008 Two young unemployed Ugandan computer programmers have built Libre-Échange an Internet-based money-making business that could be Uganda’s Google. Libre-Échange is French word for Free Trade now coming into the Ugandan circles as an online trading platform that could either make you filthy rich or damn broke should, it take off.
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