Posts Tagged with ‘asia’

The Western world likes to consider itself the most current of hemispheres. It sees itself as the half of the globe with the most technological prowess, though today that assertion can definitely be debated. (At least in terms of the stuff taking place in clean rooms and such, the West can likely still claim an upper hand, however.)
But when tossing about market growth numbers and so forth, there’s a lot that shows that those in the East are flying [...]

The most underutilized aspect of Web 2.0 is education, but students in Singapore are about to get a technical boost as blogs, video conferencing, tablet PC's, podcasts and interactive whiteboards are about to be employed in the classrooms there. A program called FutureSchools@Singapore is rolling out a new initiative to harness emerging technologies with innovative teaching methods to improve Singapore's education system. 5 schools have been targeted to test the new initiative according to news from Yahoo! Singapore, like most of [...]

South Korea is poised to establish a code of Internet ethics to curb the distribution of pornographic and other inappropriate materials there. A bill is being sent to their parliament for approval this year according to Vice Information Minister Yoo Younghwan. The growth of South Korea's Web presence has grown exponentially and essentially without regulation this year and officials are concerned about social responsibility from Internet constituencies.
Web 2.0 and the World 
Web 2.0 has ushered in a worldwide connectivity we could [...]