Corruption and Unending Problems in Africa Africa is incontrovertibly blessed with an abundance of natural resources, especially land that is rich in all sorts of imaginable minerals. Hundreds and thousands of fertile tracts that are conducive for agriculture can be found nowhere else on the globe except in most African countries. Had these resources been […]
Publish a postmortems report of a failure – A request on behalf of ICT community
Publish a postmortems report of a failure – A request on behalf of ICT community CTG should answer to the Youth, specifically to the every jobless youth! We want a white paper on the specific corruption and incompetence on information superhighway There has been a lot of politics by our politicians about the conspiracy with […]
Role of ICT and Bangladesh Armed Forces
Role of ICT and Bangladesh Armed Forces Army need to focus on how to win Information Wars. Projects like National ID, etc are better left with civilians. Rather induct more civilians into the Armed Forces for short periods. There is a lot of show of goodwill and confidence that the people are showing in the […]
Militants turn wedding bells into mourning in Kashmir
Abhishek Behl, Merinews.com A valiant officer of Jammu and Kashmir police, Shaily Singh was engaged to be married on June 27. He could have taken things easy and could have easily skipped his meeting with the militants, but he chose not to. Waiting for wedding bells to sound a sweet-sacred ring, the family of […]
Web2.0 is grassroots
This article just serves as an introduction to web2.0 for the grassroots people. So this article is by no means academic. I will try to avoid tech terms. Web2.0 is grassroots in the sense that if you look at web2.0 websites (meetup, craigslist, youtube, flickr, del.icio.us …), they are all built by the user. It […]
On the Long-awaited Cusp of a New Generation in Computing
In February of 2007, D-Wave Systems, of Burnaby, Canada, successfully demonstrated the world’s first quantum computer, to much fanfare. Known as Orion, this 16-qubit adiabatic quantum computer is designed to be scaled up to a 1024-qubit model by mid-2008 that can very quickly compute a very specific sort of problem using somewhat different properties of quantum […]