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    Promoting ICT for Human Development in Asia: Realising the Millennium Development Goals

    2013
    the ICT developments specially aimed to raise the economic and social levels of the population takes place in Sri Lankan at a pace much lower than what it is in the developed world. This can be due to several complex reasons.
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    Use of ICT in Health Care for Rural India: The scenario with Software & Embedded system: the eMedicine way

    2011
    Health Care sector in India has witnessed significant growth during the last few years, both in quality and capacity. In spite of such developments, heath care facilities in the country remain inadequate to meet the needs of the citizens, particularly in rural areas, where approximately 70% of the people live.
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    Developmental Impact Analysis of an ICT-Enabled Scalable Healthcare Model in BRICS Economies

    2012
    This article highlights the need for initiating a healthcare business model in a grassroots, emerging-nation context. This article’s backdrop is a history of chronic anomalies afflicting the healthcare sector in India and similarly placed BRICS nations. In these countries, a significant percentage of populations remain deprived of basic healthcare facilities and emergency services.
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    Information and Communications Technology in Health Care

    2010
    This thesis has been written on assignment for a project called “Value Creation in Smart Living Environments for Senior Citizens” funded by the Academy of Finland.
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    Connected Health: Transforming Healthcare in Emerging Markets

    2007
    This paper develops the Connected Health model so that it can be applied in developing countries that can afford only a simple infrastructure. It argues that when health is regarded as part of a holistic program of development, the aggregation of demand will make the connectivity needed to transform health (and other services) more affordable.
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    The Linkage Between ICT Applications and Meaningful Development

    2010
    This briefing note focuses on ways in which ICT applications, particularly computer and Web-based digital technologies, can be used to promote sustainable social and economic development and achieve the Millennium Development Goals.
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    An Analysis of the role of ICTs to achieving the MDGs

    2010
    Focusing on African countries, the objective of this paper is to carry-out an analysis of the key challenges and the uses of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to promote socio-economic development, and, in particular, the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) with a specific focus on poverty alleviation, health, education, gender equality, and environmental sustain
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    Electronic Governance in Asia: State of Play, Impact and Bridging Internal Divide

    2010
    This paper attempts to provide deeper insight into the e-government landscape in Asian region. First, the paper highlights the state of e-governance in Asia – regional competiveness and intra-regional performance. Second, it determines the structure of the existing e-governance divide in the region from two different perspectives, at sub-regional and country levels.
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    e-Governance at Grassroots Level in South Asia: A Study of Citizen-centric e-Panchayats in India

    2010
    The paper intends to underline the features of e-governance at local selfgovernment level in rural India and examines the viability of the e-panchayats in making the local-self governance citizen-centric for efficient, responsive, costeffective, result-oriented mechanism for faster pace of rural development.
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    E-government in the Asia-Pacific region: Progress and Challenges

    2005
    This paper will focus on two issues: (i) recent egovernment progress and challenges, and (ii) the practices regional organizations follow to cope with the challenges, while maximizing the benefits.

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