Trade Policy Review: Saudi Arabia The first review of the trade policies and practices of Saudi Arabia takes place on 25 and 27 January 2012. The basis for the review is a report by the WTO Secretariat and a report by the Government of Saudi Arabia.
Industrial goods negotiations to resume The chairman of the industrial goods negotiations, Ambassador Luzius Wasescha of Switzerland, has announced a three-phase programme to explore new avenues for future talks leading to a successful conclusion of talks in this important area of the Doha Development Agenda.
Industrial goods negotiations to resume The chairman of the industrial goods negotiations, Ambassador Luzius Wasescha of Switzerland, has announced a three-phase programme to explore new avenues for future talks leading to a successful conclusion of talks in this important area of the Doha Development Agenda.
Visa has been hard at work on a mobile digital wallet that it hopes to roll out early next year. But that's not the only mobile market the credit card company has its eye on.
The situation of Internet connectivity in India is like our roads. It is not about how much Internet is available in India, but the quality of its bandwidth
There is a concept in telecommunications called "the last mile," that part of any phone system that is the most difficult to connect -- the part that goes from the main lines into people's homes. Prem Kalra, the director of the new Indian Institute of Technology in Rajasthan, one of the elite M.I.T.'s of India, has dedicated his school to overcoming a different challenge: connecting "the last person."
Last week, I received an email about a problem my company was having with our online shop. I happened to be out of the office, so I pulled out my laptop, plugged in a 3G mobile broadband dongle, and went online to try and fix it - something countless workers and commuters do every day. The difference was that I was standing in a field near Atbara in North Sudan, while villagers were making mud bricks a few meters away.
Like the travelling fairs that still roam India, a snazzy white bus trundles along the subcontinent's B-roads, stopping in small towns for a few days at a time and inviting locals into another world. But in place of tightrope-walking girls and performing monkeys, its main attraction is access to the internet. For some visitors, it is their first time online.
Northern European countries are reaping more than twice the benefits than their crisis-riven southern counterparts from the internet as a contributor to their net GDP, according to a new survey.
With online business increasingly driving economic growth, developing nations' top priority should be the infrastructure their citizens need to get connected, delegates at an Internet conference in Nairobi said this week.
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