Tag: <span>development</span>

Tag: development

Latest News: Google Campus for StartUps opens in Warsaw

eLearningworld News from Poland The Warsaw Google Campus is a support center for start-ups and inventors that require advanced technologies to develop their business and also gives opportunity to collaborate with other entrepreneurs. The Minister of Science, Peter Dardziński that just has been appointed to focus on innovation and the …

Latest News: MOOC on Economics of a new Global Development Agenda

eLearningworld News from the World In the UN Summit in September 2015 political leaders from all over the world adopted a global 2030 development agenda. This includes new global goals, called the Sustainable Development Goals, where the main ambitious is to use the “billions” in Official Development Assistance to channel …

Latest News: Analysis shows Prospects of Innovation in Public Administration

eLearningworld News from Denmark New research from the Danish Centre of Public Innovation shows the connection between the amount of innovation in different units of the public administration and the employees’ level of education. The result shows that the larger amount of employees with high education the better prospect of …

Latest News: Global connectivity index 2015 shows ICT-investments key to increase GDP

eLearningworld News from the world Huaweis Global connectivity index (GCI) 2015 shows a strong correlation between GCI and GDP. The report estimates that 20% increase in ICT investment generates 1% growth in GDP. A country’s GCI-performance can be categorised in three levels: Mature, Follower and Beginner. While mature countries like …

Latest News: New research project on IT-security in networked production

eLearningworld News from Germany German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is targeting IT-security in networked production processes. 14 companies in the German industry and seven research institutes and universities will collaborate to produce applications to minimize damage of hacker attacks. Federal Research Minister Johanna Wanka commented, “IT security …

Latest News: ICT transforming economies in a revolutionary spirit but is inequally distributed

eLearningworld News from the World The 2015 edition of World Economic Forum’s The Global Information Technology Report  summarize the development as follows: The information and communication technology (ICT) revolution has the potential to transform economies and societies, and become part of the solution of many global challenges, but the revolution …