Government Technology

Indrajit Basu, International Correspondent

Twitter: @govtechnews

Recent Articles

Security and Censorship: India to Clip the Wings of Internet
January 16, 2007 - India's Department of Telecom is working on a way to censor the Internet without attracting a public outcry. And it may put a stop to Internet telephony services of Yahoo, MSN and Skype.

Spain's Basque Country Achieves Its Broadband Dreams
January 02, 2007 - Spain's Basque country leads in European rural broadband access as a direct result of an innovative government program.

German DIY Community Releases New Mesh Routing Daemon
December 18, 2006 - The self-proclaimed largest do-it-yourself wireless community network, Freifunk in Germany, has developed a new algorithm that the developers claim would revolutionize adhoc networking or mobile mesh routing to make all current mesh routing protocols and algorithms obsolete.

UK's Largest Wi-Fi Community Network Emerging as a Role Model
December 11, 2006 - After just three months of going live, Norfolk's wireless community network has become something of a role model for other cities and local authorities in UK interested in developing their own wireless projects.

India's Monkey-Proof Wi-Fi Goes WiLD
November 01, 2006 - A University of Berkeley research group and Air Jaldi connects a rural Himalayan region of India with WiLD -- reportedly the only low-cost wireless alternative that connects Wi-Fi mesh networks over long distances at high speeds.

W2i London: Challenges Ahead for UK's E-Community Vision
September 28, 2006 - Building digital communities in the UK, or even in Europe, is still mired in issues ranging from technology and choice of appropriate business models to skepticism.

China Forges Ahead With Homegrown WAPI Standard Instead of Wi-Fi
September 27, 2006 - China has decided to swamp its huge domestic market with WAPI-complaint products and this spells trouble for international Wi-Fi product vendors seeking to expand in China.

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Collaboration for the Public Sector



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