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Box 300, 1400 Vienna, Austria Tel: (+43-1) 26026-0 · www.unido.org · [email protected] EMERGING TECHNOLOGY SERIES 3 and 4/1998 Information Technology UNITED NATIONS INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION Vienna, 2000 EMERGING TO OUR READERS TECHNOLOGY SERIES Of special interest in this issue of Emerging Technology Series: Information T~chn~~ogy is the focus on a meeting that took INFORMATION place from 2n to 4 November 1998, in Bangalore, India. The TECHNOLOGY occasion was a meeting on "Information Technology in the 3 & 4/1998 Global Village". It concentrated on assessing the potential of information technology (IT) in the global village to improve the quality of life of human beings everywhere in the world and, in CONTENTS particular, those in developing countries. During the seminar, SPECIAL ARTICLES several dimensions of the impact of IT on developing countries EXPAND YOUR COMMUNICATIONS and its potential in uplifting the quality of life for the weakest CAPACITY sections of society were explored by speakers from diverse by Bruce Conradie and Mike Jensen disciplines: ranging from the analysis of the effect of English TRENDS IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND IMPLICATIONS FOR being the dominant language in the IT world to the potential DEVELOPING ECONOMIES advances in IT in the next century. by Vinay L. Deshpande THE GLOBAL VILLAGE: ASPIRATIONS The final outcome of the meeting was the "Bangalore AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR DEVELOPING ECONOMIES Declaration on Information Technology for Developing by V. Chandrdu and s. Manohar Countries in the Global Village",. which recognizes the potential for IT as an historic window of opportunity for developing NEWS AND EVENTS countries to create national wealth and break the cycle of poverty and dependence they have been caught in. It carefully NEW DEVELOPMENTS warns, however, of the dangers of unbridled use of IT that could MARKET TRENDS AND rapidly lead to further widening of the disparities between the COMPANY NEWS haves and have-nots everywhere. APPLICATIONS Two important papers presented at the conference are SOFTWARE reproduced here. The first one by Vinay L. Deshpande, COUNTRY NEWS Chairman and CEO, Ncore Technology Pvt. Ltd., and STANDARDIZATION & Chairman, Processor Systems (India) Pvt. Ltd., discusses LEGISLATION trends in information technology and their implications for developing countries. The second paper looks at the Global RECENT PUBLICATIONS Village and led to the first draft of the Declaration. Its authors UNIDO's Emerging Technology Series is are Vijay Chandru, who is Professor of Computer Science and established as a mechanism of current awareness to monitor developments in Automation, and Swami Manohar, who is associate Professor the microelectronics sector and inform governments, industry and academia, of Computer Science and Automation, both at the Indian primarily in developing countries. Institute of Science, Bangalore. The Series on Information Technology is issues four times a year and distributed free of charge to readers in developing The full text of the Bangalore Declaration is also included. The countries. It is not a formal document and has been reproduced without formal participants at the meeting urge that the Declaration be editing. Opinions expressed here do not publicized as widely as possible. Please note that all the necessarily reflect the views of UNIDO. Mention of the names of firms and presentations made during the seminar have been made commercial products does not imply an endorsement by UNIDO. Copyrighted available on the websitehttp://www.csa.iiscernet.in/bangit/. material reproduced in the Series may be quoted only with permission of the journals concerned. Other material may be quoted or reproduced without further permission. Due acknowledgement is requested. Paul H. Makin Scientific Editor: Paul H. Makin Scientific Editor Compiled and edited: Diana Rhind Editorial Board: V. Podshibyakin; P. H. Makin; A. Spina; C. GOrkOk. Published in 1999 by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) Industrial Information Section (ITPD) Vienna International Centre P.O. Box 300 A-1400 Vienna Austria Tel.: (43-1) 26026-3736 Fax: (43-1) 26026-6843 e-mail: [email protected] Information Technology, 3 and 411998 Contents Page Page A. SPECIAL ARTICLES • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1 Agreement reached to achieve global roaming for 3rd generation mobile systems . 27 Expand your communications capacity­ ITU and Brazil sign cooperation agreement . 28 an overview of the major mobile Patent award for recycling of PFCs . 28 telecommunications options . .. 1 Information management and challenges for Trends in information technology and impli- development in Africa . 28 cations for developing economies . 5 Second network for speed demons . 29 Design for global competitiveness . 6 Membrane unit recovers PFCs from exhaust 29 The global village-aspirations and oppor- New engineering body to represent 40,000 29 tunities for developing economies . 11 Chips for cheap PCs . 29 The Bangalore Declaration on Information Ultracomputer will model global environment 29 Technology for Developing Countries in Consortium will study interfaces . 29 the Global Village . 16 Strategic alliance proposed to speed up the advent of digital radio . 29 B. NEWS AND EVENTS • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 19 ITU announces partnership agreement with Canada to increase developing countries' Knowledge management . 19 access to information and knowledge 30 Information ethics: a contemporary challenge Latest internet hacker threat . .. 30 for professionals and the community . 19 SEMATECH forms international SEMATECH 30 Forged e-mails . 19 Mobile phone makers see recycling threat . 31 The European Environment Agency Web site 20 EU evaluates role ofHPC . 31 Chip makers warned over "Bug shutdown" . 20 EECA presents fresh PCB focus . 31 Warning, a killer mistake in business: don't Satellite will eclipse DTT . 31 let technology drive your requirements . 20 Bookselling on the Internet: a future that Myth-ing links: power and community on works . 31 the information highway . 20 IT-related training opportunities . 31 Taming the information flood . 21 The soaring cost of e-commerce . 21 C. NEW DEVELOPMENTS • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 33 Global delivery of education via the Internet 21 Cordless Internet service hits the airwaves . 21 Liquid logic . 33 A security framework for on-line distance A new angle for flash cards . 3 3 learning and training . 22 Hydrogen-powered laptops and TVs . 33 Next Generation Internet . 22 Flower power . 33 Round the clock, round the world . 22 Bus instruction set computer . 33 Investext brings valuable business and industry Long electrolytically polished coiled tube 34 intelligence to the Web . 22 IC chip integrating lithium ion battery charging On-line information and Eastern Europe 23 and abnormality correction functions . 34 Forces that will shape the Internet . 23 Largest, most powerful laser . 34 Internet2: new computing infrastructure . 23 Clever pipework takes the heat out of E-commerce: hit or hype? . 23 chips . 35 Virtual private networks . 24 High-temperature superconductors . 35 Factors and issues in creating an Internet A small revolution in motor mechanics 35 strategy . 24 150 nm copper process for SRAMs . 35 Electronic commerce and privacy . 24 NEC develops embedded FeRAM for smart Internet fraud . 24 card chips . 36 ADSL this year for Web access . · 25 Efficient oxidation process for ultrathin gate Year 2000 survival guide . 25 oxides . 36 Decaff makes a strong solution for The revolution that is system-on-a-chip . 36 Silicon Valley . 25 System maps wafers using space technology 36 Almost unparalleled . 25 Fingerprint recognition . 37 Electronic purse to get global appeal . 25 Nanotechnology . 37 Internet telephony set to dominate Intel's Pentium II Xeon . 37 by 2000 . 25 Chaos for secure communication . 37 Counting down . 26 "DNA chips" and tiny tubes make genetic Ericsson crosses Atlantic with multi-standard studies