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Recent article from India 2006

	Article no.:	6
	Topic:	Changing India – using the telecom edge
	Author:	Amit Sharma
	Title:	Vice President, South and South-East Asia
	Organisation:	Motorola
	PDF size:	320 KB

About author:
Amit Sharma is the Vice President for South & South East-Asia at Motorola Inc. Mr Sharma has been a member of Motorola’s Asia-Pacific Management Board since 1997. Prior to Motorola, he served asVice President – Strategic Planning & Business Development at GE Capital and at McKinsey & Company as a core team member of the firm's Electronics and Marketing Practices. Mr Amit Sharma is the Co-Chairman of the Telecom Committee of the Federation of the Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI); he serves on the AmCham Board of Governors and is the Chairman of the its Telecom Committee; he is also a member of the CII – Confederation of Indian Industry’s Telecom Committee. Mr Sharma studied at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur; he has an MSE in Computer and Information Sciences from the Moore School, University of Pennsylvania. He also holds an MBA in International Business from Wharton School of Business, where he was on the Dean’s and the Director’s Honours Lists.

Article abstract:
Telecommunications holds the key to India’s economic emergence. Contrasts in telecom usage, though, are great. India is the world’s fastest growing telecom market, but two-thirds of its population has no coverage and broadband usage is negligible. Nevertheless, countless urban and rural workers use mobiles to do business and thousands of people man the call centres, the hubs of the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry, which has played such a key role in making India the world’s back-office.

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Free article from Africa and the Middle East 2004

	Article no.:	7
	Author:	Reza Mahdavi
	Title:	Vice-President, Europe, the Middle East and Africa
	Organisation:	Cisco Systems
	Topic:	Closing the Technology Skills Gap for Sustainable Development in Africa
	PDF size:	652 KB

About author
Technology is seen as the key to bridging the digital divide. International agencies, in strategic partnerships with businesses, have developed and funded projects to help train students in the Least Developed Countries (LDCs). These programmes use e-learning tools to deliver Web-based educational content, provide online testing, track student performance and support hands-on labs and instructor training. Other such initiatives train government officials, provide an information-sharing network for schools, connect LDCs' agricultural institutes and provide hospitals with life-saving health education.

Article abstract
Technology is seen as the key to bridging the digital divide. International agencies, in strategic partnerships with businesses, have developed and funded projects to help train students in the Least Developed Countries (LDCs). These programmes use e-learning tools to deliver Web-based educational content, provide online testing, track student performance and support hands-on labs and instructor training. Other such initiatives train government officials, provide an information-sharing network for schools, connect LDCs' agricultural institutes and provide hospitals with life-saving health education.