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- Balancing the benefits: ICTs in developing countries
- Developing countries must take urgent steps to create an advanced telecommunications infrastructure if they are to benefit from the revolution in information and communication technologies (ICT). They must be aware, though, that the impact of ICT in developing countries may not be positive, and can heighten existing inequalities.
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- Practice makes perfect
- Modern industry depends heavily on information technology. The 1997 software best practice report summarises the findings of a questionnaire enclosed with project proposals submitted to the European Commission during 1997.
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- Will you catch the millennium bug?
- The millennium bug stems from a deceptively simple computer quirk that could cause turmoil in the business world on 1st January 2000. This survey looks at how well business organisations in fifteen countries expect to cope.
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- Data, data, everywhere but not a byte to eat
- We are overwhelmed with data - with raw unprocessed bits of information - but the ability to turn this into useful, meaningful information eludes us. How can we make models of our ideas, so that more comes out of our databases than goes in?
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October 1998