By Peter Frerichs in Chile
www.poletopoleconsulting.com
At this stage in the game everyone has an email address, right? I can’t remember the last person I encountered without one. So, taking this a step further, if you have email you are more than likely to have perused websites other than Gmail, yahoo, or hotmail. Yet, I come across [...]
By Peter Frerichs in Chile
www.poletopoleconsulting.com
At least for roughly 19,700 classrooms in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, long gone are the days of the homeroom teacher belting out the attendance list and manually marking “present or not present.” Instead, every student in this target area has been provided with an electronic ID card with each and [...]
By Rama Siva in India
The rural bank where I work in western India is frequently a scene of intense frustration. The cause is most often malfunctioning computers. Technology stirs more negative emotion among the bank’s staff than auditors do.
Most technology problems in the bank are simple enough to be fixed by people with basic training [...]
By Will Radecki in the Dominican Republic
I read with amazement this week that in Uganda, text messaging accounted for $39 million in revenues over the last two years. Ugandans sent 354 million SMS messages in 2008. It’s no surprise that SMS is popular in Africa. What’s surprising is that I’ve been living in the Dominican [...]
