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A View of the Cloud from Brazil

Tech Soup

It is one of the rapidly emerging " BRIC " economies, along with Russia, India and China. According to a recent UN International Telecommunication Union (ITU) report on Internet availability in 152 countries, Brazil ranked 64th in overall Internet availability to its people. is four times higher than in Brazil.

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Hold my calls

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

Based on market research in China, India and the Philippines, consulting firm McKinsey & Co. percent, or around US$12 billion for an economy the size of China. Going beyond the merely anecdotal, the article tried to put some metric on the role mobile technology plays in growth in these countries.

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2014 NTC Report: The Wins, The Fails, The Ideas for 2015

NTEN

In the last month, NTEN staff have rested and recuperated (Jessica even traveled to China!), Today, I have a full report back about what went well and what we want to improve, and even what we want to flat out discontinue. 14ntc fail NTC report winning' and debriefed a whole lot of the NTC. Talk about generosity.

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