News and Notes Roundup: March 23
It’s Monday and we are back with our weekly News and Notes Roundup. It could not come at a better time (for basketball fans), given that today is the first day without any March Madness tournament games since it started. This week we look at articles discussing the UN’s plan once the MDGs expire, Android’s response to the Apple Watch and much more. Be sure to check us out on Twitter, Facebook, and our blog, nditech.org.
In this week in tech history, the Russian space station, Mir, burns up after fifteen years of being in orbit. The station was launched in 1986 and far exceeded its intended lifespan of five years. On a social media note, in 2006 today, Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter, sent the world’s first non-automated tweet, “inviting coworkers”. As of the end of 2014, Twitter has more that 400 million tweets per day.
Here are the links for this week’s news roundup:
Popular Tech News
- Anti-censorship attempts are being put to a halt in China
- New bill introduced in Congress to limit use of student data
- Monica Lewinsky gives a speech at TED conference on cyber bullying
- Tech start-up stocks are increasingly supporting American retirement funds
- Tag Heuer is teaming up with Google and Intel to develop an Android watch
ICT and development
- How ICT will play a role in the UN's new long-term development plan
- The future for ICT in Cuba after years of isolation from the USA and others
- The role of technology to enable citizens for development
- New mapping innovation brings awareness to domestic violence in the Congo
- See what Japan is doing to increase its disaster preparedness
Mobiles
- Human innovation is making mobiles a game changer for developing countries
- Mobile tablets are being developed to be ‘ebola proof‘
- A research article on mobile technology for fishers in India
- Mobile identity and its role in a developing economy
- African mobile tech on the rise, but not completely advanced