technology:mobile technology

Huawei tells New Zealand : banning us is like banning the All Blacks
▻https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/feb/13/huawei-tells-new-zealand-banning-us-is-like-banning-the-all-blacks

Chinese tech company uses full-page ads to push for inclusion in 5G rollout despite concerns it is a security risk China’s Huawei has taken out full-page ads in major New Zealand newspapers in which they equate the idea of ban on the company to a rugby tournament without the All Blacks. The advertisement reads : “5G without Huawei is like rugby without New Zealand”, referring to the upcoming nationwide rollout of the mobile technology. National telco Spark has been temporarily banned from (...)

#Huawei #domination #lobbying

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How can Information Communication Technology (ICT) assist Arctic hunters to adapt/respond to climate change?
▻http://www.ucl.ac.uk/excites/projects/excites-projects/arctic-hunters/climate-change

This research aims to develop a mobile technology grounded in the needs of Yupik and Iñupiaq coastal subsistence hunters who are adapting to the rapidly changing climate in Arctic Alaska. By combining traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) with scientific expertise this new technology will ultimately embed different ontologies and interpretations of sea-ice. The technology as well as the data management options will be designed together with the local people, reflecting their ways of hunting, learning and knowing.

#arctique #changement_climatique #autochtones #intéressant #technoptimisme

Mobile technology ’can play role in healthcare’ - Business LIVE
►http://www.businesslive.co.za/incoming/2011/06/06/mobile-technology-can-play-role-in-healthcare

SA’s most urgent health problems could be more efficiently tackled by up-scaling the usage of mobile technologies by those working in the health system, according to Yogan Pillay, deputy director-general for the Department of Health’s strategic health programmes, but, he said, the country did not need more pilot projects.
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“We know by now what works and what doesn’t. It is time we build on that,”
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“The Themba Lethu clinic in Johannesburg, for instance, sends out text messages to remind HIV patients, including moms and pregnant women, about appointments and medication,” he explained.
“The number of missed appointments between 2007 and 2011 has dropped from 15% to 7%. The same counts for TB patients.”

#sida #tb #santé #téléphonie