BY KATHRYN JACOBSON, JILL NELSON & KAREN OWEN Limited access to health information and services is one of the many challenges common to rural residents around the world, especially those who live in low income countries. One way to reach out to isolated populations is through radio communications that can provide timely and locally-appropriate information [...]
BY DAVID M. HART THE RISE OF THE GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY AND THE CHALLENGES OF GOVERNANCE Over the past two or three decades, knowledge-intensive industries, such as semiconductor chip design and biotechnology-based drug discovery, have undergone a global restructuring. Globalization now extends beyond markets for goods, unskilled labor, and conventional finance into markets for technology, [...]
BY TONY YANG The completion of the Human Genome Project marked the dawn of a bold new era — the era of the genome in biology and medicine. There has been growing biomedical research on relating population-based genomic analyses to diseases. This is a transformation from investigating a small group of individuals to analyzing the [...]
BY DORTHE POSSING A report, “Being a Muslim woman in Denmark,” published in March 2009 and commissioned by the former Danish Minister for Gender Equality, Karen Jespersen, concluded that the circulation of “Islamist” discourses on the Internet and Arabic satellite-TV put young Danish Muslim women’s notions of equality and citizenship at risk. The logic was [...]
BY TOJO THATCHENKERY AND ROGER STOUGH1 India has emerged as one of the fastest growing economies in the world. A report authored by Goldman Sachs in 2003 stated that by the year 2050 India will become the third largest economy in the world, behind China and the United States. The report predicts that India’s GDP [...]
BY PETER W. BLACK The insular Pacific, the region of the world perhaps most dramatically transformed by recent globalization processes, offers many opportunities to learn what happens when a recently dispersed community turns to new information technologies. For several generations, the peoples of Oceania have been leaving their remote island homes for port towns and [...]
BY LINDSEY POULIN Technology is regarded as the potential key to industrialization on the African continent. The introduction and proliferation of cellular telephony is having a significant impact on the continent’s drive to join the globalized world. According to the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), over the last half decade, Africa has been the fastest growing [...]