Title: Microsoft’s Win 8 breaks language barrier in Rwanda
Source: IT News Africa
Date (published): 14/01/2013
Date (accessed): 14/01/2013
Type of information: blog post
Language: English
On-line access: yes
Abstract: The New Times reports on Microsoft’s announcement that it has made Windows 8 available in Rwanda’s main language, Kinyarwanda.

Title: One Million Raspberry Pi Boards Have Been Sold Since Launch
Author: John Biggs
Source: Techcrunch
Date (published): 13/01/2013
Date (accessed): 14/01/2013
Type of information: blog post
Language: English
On-line access: yes
Abstract: An estimated one million of these tiny computers have been sold so far, an amazing feat for a tiny $35 circuit board that can boot directly into a streamlined version of Linux.

Title: Country ICT Resources
Source: ICTD@Tulane
Date (published): 02/01/2013
Date (accessed): 12/01/2013
Type of information: online collection
Language: English
On-line access: yes
Abstract: Based on research done by students in the IDEV4100 course, below is a list of resources complied by country, including national ICT policies and strategies, related government agencies/ministries, and external resources regarding each country’s technological capacity and strategies for ICT development, by region based on UNDP’s Human Development Report.

Title: Manufacturing the future: The next era of global growth and innovation
Authors: James Manyika, Jeff Sinclair, Richard Dobbs, Gernot Strube, Louis Rassey, Jan Mischke, Jaana Remes, Charles Roxburgh, Katy George, David O'Halloran, Sreenivas Ramaswamy
Source: McKinsey Global Institute
Date (published): 15/11/2012
Date (accessed): 12/01/2013
Type of information: research report
Pages: 184 pp.
Language: English
On-line access: yes
Abstract: The global manufacturing sector has undergone a tumultuous decade: large developing economies leaped into the first tier of manufacturing nations, a severe recession choked off demand, and manufacturing employment fell at an accelerated rate in advanced economies. Still, manufacturing remains critically important to both the developing and the advanced world. Manufacturing the future: The next era of global growth and innovation, a major report from the McKinsey Global Institute, presents a clear view of how manufacturing contributes to the global economy today and how it will probably evolve over the coming decade.

Title: Google Urges North Korea to Open Internet Access
Authors: Michael Lipin, William Gallo
Source: Voice of America
Date (published): 10/01/2013
Date (accessed): 12/01/2013
Type of information: blog post
Language: English
On-line access: yes
Abstract: This week's visit to North Korea by Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt has drawn attention to Pyongyang's policy of severely limiting Internet access to the nation's ruling elite and their families.

Title: The new politics of the internet. Everything is connected
Source: The Economist
Date (published): 05/01/2013
Date (accessed): 08/01/2013
Type of information: online article
Language: English
On-line access: yes
Abstract: Can internet activism turn into a real political movement? The success at the ITU conference in Dubai capped a big year for online activists. In January they helped defeat Hollywood-sponsored anti-piracy legislation, best known by the acronym SOPA, in America’s Congress. A month later, in Europe, they took on ACTA, an obscure international treaty which, in seeking to enforce intellectual-property rights, paid little heed to free speech and privacy. In Brazil they got closer than many would have believed possible to securing a ground-breaking internet bill of rights, the “Marco Civil da Internet”. In Pakistan they helped to delay, perhaps permanently, plans for a national firewall, and in the Philippines they campaigned against a cybercrime law the Supreme Court later put on hold.

Title: Solar Crowdfunding Is Here — Solar Mosaic Launches New Solar Crowdfunding Site
Author: Zachary Shahan
Source: Clean Technica
Date (published): 07/01/2013
Date (accessed): 08/01/2013
Type of information: blog post
Language: English
On-line access: yes
Abstract: Crowdfunding is all the rage. Clean energy, especially solar, is about as popular as anything. Naturally, clean energy + crowdfunding = a win.

Title: The Choice Between Facebook and Running Water Isn’t Obvious
Author: Aaron Mason
Source: ICTs for development
Date (published): 07/01/2013
Date (accessed): 08/01/2013
Type of information: blog post
Language: English
On-line access: yes
Abstract: The maturity of massive innovation is never measured in years, seldom even in decades, so perhaps we’ll really only be able to see the value of the new app economy looking back from the turn of the next century. And from there, who knows? Perhaps 140 characters really will prove more valuable than flying cars.

Title: The Three Different Meanings of "Internet Activism"
Author: Nick Judd
Source: Techpresident
Date (published): 04/01/2013
Date (accessed): 08/01/20123
Type of information: blog post
Language: English
On-line access: yes
Abstract: The main focus of the article, and a new and interesting thing that's really worth noticing, is the way that people who are very much "of the Internet" have demonstrated a new political consciousness.

Title: 10 Raspberry Pi creations that show how amazing the tiny PC can be
Author: Jon Brodkin
Source: Arstechnica
Date (published): 27/12/2012
Date (accessed): 02/01/2013
Type of information: blog post
Language: English
On-line access: yes
Abstract: Arcade cabinets, robots, wearable computers and more built by Pi hobbyists.