By Mary Kimani

“Africa Renewal, United Nations”.

The small, dusty village of Mayange lies 20 kilometres from Rwanda’s capital, Kigali. Its health centre has fewer than 40 beds but serves an estimated 35,000 people. The Mayange centre could well be like thousands of other health facilities across the continent struggling to meet patients’ needs with very few resources and staff.

GSM coverage extended by an area the size of France in just 12 months

Jerusalem, April 29, 2008 – A process to transmit medical images via cellular phones that has been developed by a Hebrew University of Jerusalem researcher has the potential to provide sophisticated radiological diagnoses and treatment to the majority of the world’s population lacking access to such technology.

The objective of the project to simplify end user activation of mobile value added service.

A value-added service (VAS) is a telecommunication industry term for non-core services or, in short, all services beyond standard voice calls. Health, entertainment and financial are just a few of the services that provided by across networks in Africa.

Jerusalem, April 29, 2008 – A process to transmit medical images via cellular phones that has been developed by a Hebrew University of Jerusalem researcher has the potential to provide sophisticated radiological diagnoses and treatment to the majority of the world’s population lacking access to such technology.

I define interstructure as those technologies, standards and platforms that allow us to derived full economic benefit from underlying technology infrastructure.

The majority of computer chips, telephone handsets, laptops, TV screens, DVD players and other electronics and telecommunications products are now manufactured in developing countries, a new UNCTAD report reveals, and developing nations´ share in exports of services related to information and communication technology (ICT) is also growing.

The open character of the way knowledge is spread over the Internet, and the way electronic communications make distance and national borders much less relevant in carrying out business and related financial transactions, holds promise for economic progress in poor countries, a new UNCTAD report says.