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Nepal

Even the Everest Basecamp has a 3G Network! That’s right Nepal these days is ICT crazy, and the popular mood is now being reflected in an aggressive new plan promoted by the Prime Minister. Google paid a visit in January 2012 to set up an infrastructure to promote Nepalese language app development on the Android [...]

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May 20 , 2013

Achieving “Political Will” : The factor that most keeps citizens from receiving the benefits of the internet is not what you’d imagine – not lack of investment capital, not corruption, not weak infrastructure. That stuff is fixable or can be circumvented. A deeper problem is that most governments are led by officials who lack political will to implement their own roadmaps for bringing broadband to the masses. Read More

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