75 Articles match "India","Technology"

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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Yet never before have companies had such powerful technologies for interacting directly with customers, collecting and mining information about them, and tailoring their offerings accordingly. To be sure, most companies use customer relationship management and other technologies to get a handle on customers, but no amount of technology can really improve the situation as long as companies are set up to market products rather than cultivate customers. Harvard Business Review Cart My Account Downloads Explore Today on HBR Blogs Magazine Books Authors Store Harvard Business School
 
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
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Monday, January 25, 2010
While businesses such as Cadbury’s and Rowntrees (influenced by the Quaker beliefs of their founders), and the Co-op (with its policy of ethical investment) practiced genuine corporate social responsibility as far back as the mid 19th Century, corporate codes of ethics only became commonplace in the late 1980s, following a wave of business scandals like the Union Carbide gas leak in Bhopal, India (1984) and the Alaskan Exxon Valdez oil spill (1989). Nonetheless, this model is useful in that, at all levels, we can see how social technologies might help: both in enabling engagement with
 

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Bloomberg BusinessWeek Business Exchange Wednesday February 24, 2010 Home Blogs Columnists Economics Green Business In Your Face Money & Politics Newsletters The Debate Room Videos Whats Your Story? Finance Finance Home Companies
wikirage1 :  The Indian  Agricultural Research  Institute (IARI) is the institute for advanced education in agriculture in India.  [link] How would a community technology steward use Twitter? Tags: social media community Twitter search technology stewardship community indicator The folks over at BrandonHall, the learning folks who blog lots of interesting links, pointed out a value of Twitter that not all of us may have seen yet. Twitter as a search engine.
The study looks at e-conferences in the field of water supply and sanitation in Kenya, Columbia, Russia, Bangladesh, Zimbabwe, India and Ghana. There are gender differences in the use of internet. The potential and use of electronic conferencing: a study of women's involvement in a global context looks at steps that can be taken by e-conference organizers to promote greater participation by women in the south. The article starts from the premises that there is a link between information and empowerment, and women should not miss out on the benefits offered by the information revolution.
installing a sitemeter and seeing people from Japan, India, Russian Federation are visiting my blog. Tomorrow we have a seminar in IICD with Chris Addison on blogs and RSS and I'm asked to present my 'pathway into blogging' . So I thought of preparing it in my blog (to get away from powerpoint). A
She was involved in an ethnographic study in one urban and one rural location in Ghana, part of a larger research in four countries (Ghana, South Africa, Jamaica and India). In July I was in Ghana to work with a network on ICT for development called GINKS ) and met Janet Kwami, an interesting researcher for the London School of Economics and Political Science. I
we are seeing a point in history in which the mobile handset manufacturers and their partners are using OSS and collaborative development to ensure they do not get trapped in the narrow margin price war that caught the personal computer (PC) original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in the previous technology wave. Over time, as the technology space matures, new players can enter the market at the bottom with “good enough” products that satisfy the low end of the market. 2. For non-technical people, the flow of announcements from the mobile telephony world about their adoption of ‘open’ platforms is quite difficult to follow, I think.
possible explaination can be found in the cultural background of India. Prof Asha Kaul and Vaibhavi Kulkarni wrote a paper with the name of Coffee, Tea or...? Gender and politeness in Computer Mediated Communication . They studied computer mediated communication (CMC), specifically work related emails in the Indian context (494 mails written by men and women were analysed).
Steve shares a bit about the work they are doing in  Ghana and some basic heuristics about introducing (or not introducing) new technology. Representative to 1978 UNESCO Symposium on Contributions of Higher Education to Community Development, and a lecturer and consultant to Ministries of Education and colleges and universities in Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, Europe, the Soviet Union, and India. Israel, and India. Finally, I have grabbed a few minutes to add the next couple of podcasts in the series on Social Media in International Development. (Links Links to all the previous podcasts
am attempting to take what I see as an inherently pragmatic approach—one that does not rely on the universal cooperation of humanity, nor on the assumption of yet-to-be-developed technologies. Growth isn’t a problem that can be solved through a new technology–all that does is postpone the inevitable reckoning with the limits of a finite world. Is your job something that can be done online This text by Jeff Vail , from March 2008, is still very much worth reading and pondering. The non-excerpted part of this text deals with the positive construction of a rhizome-based world,
Jessica Lipnack and Jeffrey Stamps are the founders of The Networking Institute (TNI) and have co-authored four other books relating to technology and the workplace. Alistair Bruce: Now he is sees how technology can empower his family. Jeff Stamps: Most previous technologies have been one way, so we are just learning how to use the incredible power of computers to facilitate two-way experiences Daniel Sutton: Out of nowhere, my colleague, Diane Gayeski , who serves as Associate Dean and Professor of Communication at Ithaca College , found this little gem in her files.