News and Notes Roundup: April 27
It's Monday and that means NDItech is back with our weekly news and notes roundup. Be sure to take a break from all the hard work Monday mornings bring and enjoy the best articles this week in technology and ICT4D. This week we look at Nigeria’s preliminary plan to bring Wi-Fi to its most populous city as well as Google’s new plan to use balloon technology to connect remote regions of the world to the mobile networks.
This day in tech history Xerox introduced the 8010 Star Information System which was the first commercial system that used a computer mouse. Despite its early 1981 release, the 8010 was focused on selling to businesses and did not sell much commercially. Therefore, the Apple Lisa and the later Apple Macintosh were the two technologies that really brought the mouse into the mainstream. Also this day in 1999, the Chernobyl PC Virus erased the hard drives of millions of PCs across the world. the most affected areas were in Europe and Asia.
And now its time for the tech links...
Popular Tech News
-Facebook’s ‘Safety Check’ helped reunite families in the Nepal earthquake
-The White House pitches its new cybersecurity plans to Silicon Valley
-Can robots solve Japan’s workforce problems?
-A Swiss physicist created laser technology to control the weather
-Can Apple continue to grow at its current rate?
ICT and Development
The Nigerian government unveils its bold plan to provide all of Lagos with Wi-Fi
-A look at India’s broad plan called “Digital India”
-The Baltics are an example of regional cooperation and infrastructure sharing to improve regional capabilities
-A look at who will and who will not benefit from a data revolution
-Is ICT4D slowly dying or slowly changing?
Mobiles
-Google is using balloons to connect remote regions of the world to mobile networks
-See how mobiles are helping farmers in Kenya
-Mobiles bring about huge learning potentials for women
-Why mobile technology needs teachers
-How will Google’s data providing launch affect competitors?