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Technology and Community Development

TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

KUMAH ERIC JUNIOR

MARCH 2009

ABSTRACT:

In today’s world, technology has invaded many aspects of human life. From its gigantic influence on our education and professional development, to the more subtle presence of little gadgets littering our homes, technology is almost everywhere.

The reasons for such pervasiveness would boil down to some characteristics that technology by itself possesses. One such characteristic, which is of major interest to many scholars, is the seeming lack of barriers to the spread of technology. It easily penetrates societies and even to remote communities, and once it reaches its destination and catches on, it becomes seemingly difficult to stop its spread. As a result of this, consumer technology like cellular phones, computers, PDAs, radios and televisions have become commonplace in places like Africa, even with all the barriers one would have envisaged.

Sadly, it does not need much analysis to realize that even though technology usage is growing rapidly in Africa, we still have numerous developmental problems in our continent. This is a situation where advanced technology is coexisting with underdevelopment in Africa. With all the power that technology wields, it will be a useful exercise to study the ways in which it can be used to solve some of those very problems it has come to meet. In essence, using our little gadgets to solve our big problems.

This is the background against which this study is undertaken. Asking whether our problems can be solved at all, then enumerating instances where development projects that utilize technology have been put to work, and concluding by examining the cases and drawing lessons from them.

CHAPTER. 1.

INTRODUCTION

The limits to what the human mind can conceive and achieve are increasing. More discoveries have been made, more things have been created, more theories have been proved and disproved, more machines have been made and more problems have been created. Scientific technology has been the driving force behind all these. Science has indeed proved to be a powerful tool which has touched many people and has shaped many communities.

According to the Concise Oxford dictionary 10th edition, technology is the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes. Clearly from this definition we can see that scientific knowledge may exist theoretically but it only becomes technology when it is used in practical settings. For example we may say the knowledge of the rules of up-thrust and buoyancy is theoretical, however practical utilization of these rules to manufacture airplanes could be termed aircraft technology.

Again according to the Concise Oxford dictionary 10th edition, a community is the people of an area considered collectively, while development is explained to mean to grow or cause to grow and become larger or more advanced. By deduction, community development could be explained to be the growth or advancement of a group of people.

Today, the world has become highly technological, and things which in the seventies would have passed for science fiction are now so commonplace that they have almost become necessities. From every corner of the world, technology has global acceptance, it is ubiquitous and has the ability to dramatically change situations.

Any attempt to ascribe reasons for this pervasiveness of technology will have many suggestions, some of which are that machines have been proven more efficient than humans at some tasks, machines are less error prone, impartial and never get tired like humans. Another could be the increased sophistication of humans and the attendant need for equally complicated messengers to help us perform many tasks, which is linked to the interesting nature of technology that once a more advanced way of doing something is found, it becomes almost unthinkable to try to do it by “old fashioned” means.

With such large scale interplay of these and many more factors, there is little reason to be surprised by the sudden emergence of automatic machines to handle the little tasks of old; cleaning floors, washing clothes, cutting bread, mixing cake etc. the list goes on and on.

And that is far from all and the list of innovative possibilities is endless. In truth, some of these innovations have shaped the world and there are many examples to cite. The discovery of electricity and the radio wave both changed the world. Today, computers are changing the world even faster. Now with cellular phones, new opportunities have come and our imagination has become the only limiting factor. We can only wait for the next big thing to be created and who knows what it will be?

The picture of technological advancement is not a completely rosy one. Indeed, there are some minuses to science as well, such as the introduction of new forms of danger which come as a consequence of innovative forms of technology, for example the nuclear bomb came from nuclear technology, unforeseen genetic mutations are as the result of genetic engineering, and the numerous and little talked about chemicals which can destroy the ozone or warm the planet.

The seriousness of the disadvantages of technology have prompted some people to argue that technological advancement, which is an example of scientific development, is making us more of advanced entities but less of humans. In other words, we have become better scientists, bankers and professionals and worse human beings. Martin Luther King puts this argument succinctly when he said “Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power, we have guided missiles and misguided men.”

The disadvantages that technology brings are issues which require serious examination to ascertain what can be done to eliminate them or at least minimize their effects since technology has definitely come to stay, and it would be to our advantage to learn how to work with it in ways that will be the most beneficial to us.

But despite the disadvantages listed here and the many more unnamed, we have seen that we can still derive many benefits from science and given that we live in, or at least come from, a part of the world where development is still a big headache, we should be the first to start a serious study of this phenomenon and see how best we can use it to our advantage. We may be surprised to see that there is a great viability in using our little gadgets to solve our big problems.

Let us make it clear that the aim of this paper is not to present technology as the magic cure that will clear our multitude of problems in a whiff, technology alone will not solve Africa’s problems because our problems are too complex, too deep and too overwhelming for any simplistic scheme to be successful. We can only achieve success when if have a more comprehensive approach to the problem, to include solid commitment to serious research, establishment of the appropriate structures, and the taking of required initiatives. It will be incorrect to assume that technology in itself is inherently good, and just implementing it alone will be enough to achieve any good result3. Though technology may be able to do anything, people must have the vision to drive it in the right direction.

Only with this knowledge can we make any meaningful gains in the development agenda.

In our particular context, Africa has proved that advanced technology could coexist with underdevelopment. People have satellite televisions whilst there are no teachers in the classrooms, we have mobile devices and pocket PCs and devices but our streets are still not named properly, there is still a large number of illiterates among the people who own and use cell phones, spreading of healthcare information is still a challenge even though a lot of people have access to radio and TV. This sorry list is endless.

CHAPTER 2:

CAN TECHNOLOGY REALLY ADDRESS OUR PROBLEMS?

From healthcare, access to water and life expectancy, to governance, industrialization and even the quality of human life, there are numerous problems confronting African communities.

Today we are said to be living in the information age, an era where access to information is the new driving force of the world. The proliferation of the Internet and World Wide Web has reduced the whole world to a massive audience with unprecedented access to vast quantities of information. This communication is unencumbered and the formation of alliances is unhindered by physical distance, national or political borders4. With all the dynamics that this modernity brings, technology stands tall as a favourite to achieve any meaningful sustainable development for many reasons.

Principal among such reasons is the fact that there is improved awareness of underdevelopment among Africans themselves, which could be due to the information age, and an improved belief that our situations can be turned around. This is markedly different from decades ago when there was a lot of resignation and despair among black professionals. Evidence to support this would be the observation that much more thought is being directed at the Africa integration agenda and greater attention being paid to the Economic partnership agreements (EU- ECOWAS).

Another positive indicator is the growing number of trained and competent technological professionals on the face of the continent. Granted, the improved numbers by themselves will not be a good indicator, but with the holistic approach talked about earlier, one can see a sign of hope which shows that there is very high potential for success in a well though out scheme to utilize technology to solve our developmental problems.

Another good point is the individual work that is being carried out by different groups using different approaches (studies of the indigenous chieftaincy system for e.g.) at trying to solve the same problems. This is clear evidence to state that beyond the level of commitment, there have been actual attempts at problem solving. Even if some of such attempts have not been successful due to the numerous challenges in the way, the experiences have been gained and lessons have been drawn from them which would be utilized for future use.

Finally there are areas where major strides have already been made in Africa. Statistics show for example that there have been remarkable improvements in girl student enrollments in places like Nigeria, Kenya and Zambia5. This is definitely a feather in our cap and such areas may serve as boosters to face the remaining dark spots.

All these imply that we might be closer than ever to solving our problems, and all that may be left will be a few giant pushes forward.

This is where technology comes into the picture. It is the one thing that seems to know no barriers, catches on easily and has the power to transform even the most remotely inaccessible locations on earth to budding business towns. It is ubiquitous. Its innovations accelerate by the month. As a result, it is the most probable tool to achieve anything meaningful.

In the early 90′s, scholars described Africa as being left in a technological apartheid 6. Today however, with increased globalization perhaps a slightly better picture can be painted. Even though Africa is not in the league of the innovators of the most novel initiatives and we may not be making as good use of technologies as we ought to, or as some others are, we would still have something positive to report. For example, in some cases, Africa actually has comparable human and hardware resources. Therefore, “apartheid” would no longer be a precise definition of the situation as it stands.

As stated earlier in this paper, technology alone will not solve our problems. But with very serious considerations using active participation, a comprehensive and well though out scheme that incorporates technology will be a very viable solution.

However taking a look at all the attempts made so far and their attendant challenges and effects if any, one may say confidently that will all the proper accompanying compliments, technology will made very significant gains in spurring the development agenda on.

CHAPTER 3:

HOW IS TECHNOLOGY BEING USED TO SOLVE PROBLEMS?

Across many countries around the world, people have made serious strides at utilizing technological knowledge to solve all manner of problems. Many issues have arisen out of such attempts, and below are very brief summaries of some of those places where practical scientific knowledge has been utilized for the growth of the community.

3.1 ELECTIONS

In Africa’s recent governance history, elections have always been a challenge. It is hard to find a totally free and fair voting exercise, whilst contested elections, unfair processes, non transparent irregularities and simple ineffectiveness are commonplace. With a background of poverty, it is not too difficult to understand why the stakes are so high in African politics and why power is very lucrative in this part of the world.  This not withstanding however, there is a good number of unrests that could have been avoided if any election is proven to be fair, free and transparent to an appreciable degree.

Attaining this ideal degree has proved difficult for reasons of the complex interplay of some factors including, a government founded electoral commission, a winner takes all setting, and no motivation to commit to the right virtues. Knowing that power is so lucrative when you come from this winner takes all setting, it is really hard to let go of control of the electoral process. This is one motivation for the dishonourable acts that unfortunately we see quite often.

Because elections are highly involving and they require elaborate programs that span a series of locations (from a voter’s home to the polling station, the collation center, the electoral commission headquarters, the public domain and back to the voter’s home), It follows that unless you are trying to make public exhibition of your nefarious activity, you would need to be tactical to be successful at such dishonorable acts. The tactics employed may vary but they invariably entail series of acts that are designed to prevent information from getting into the public domain. So that for example, figures could be changed anytime so long as the original and authentic ones do not get into the hands of the public.

If democratic leadership were genuinely understood, there will be no attempt at election rigging. But since we are currently not in that ideal stage, election monitoring is one tool we can exploit to at least cut the ability for cheating.

Mobile phone technology is being used in election monitoring in some African countries under a new system of election monitoring called “parallel reporting”. Parallel reporting is simply an approach to election monitoring whereby independent observers spread news of the votes counted at the basic level, which is the polling station. The figures are then relayed to an independent center where they are collated and cross checked with official figures announced by the electoral commission.

One advantage of this scheme is seen that it will make it increasingly difficult for an electoral commission to attempt to fraudulently sway the results in the favour of any of the contesting parties. The spreading or relaying of the results figures are done largely with mobile phones. Senegal is an example of a country where this project has been successful.

3.2       HEALTHCARE

The statistics obtained from healthcare research are interesting. Figures show that a large number of the world’s HIVAIDS afflicted people live in Africa. At the same time, one of the growing markets for consumer electronics such as mobile devices, handheld PC etc may be found here in Africa. This represents a population overlap, and it is only prudent that some amount of research has been directed towards attempting to find ways to incorporating technology in the treatment of the numerous diseases on the face of the continent7.

Tuberculosis (TB) has long been known to be one of the deadliest diseases known to man. Apart from the threat that this highly infectious bacterial disease presents to human life, it also enjoys some additional notoriety for lowering the sufferer’s immune system to make it easy for other diseases, which may have various degrees of harmfulness, to attack the sufferer.

As if that were not enough, TB has a deadly habit of mutating at the least case of drug non adherence. Therefore any TB caregiver knows that a patient who demonstrates non compliance with drug rules is clearly not interested in getting healed. As a result of this, over the years, ways to enforce religious adherence of medication have been tried but success has largely eluded caregivers.

In South Africa, there is a very laudable project, the SimPill’s award-winning Adherence System project, which uses a real-time management system to increase adherence to medications prescribed to treat chronic illnesses – particularly tuberculosis, which is a significant cause of death of people living with HIV.

3.3       SOCIAL ISSUES

Serious projects that utilize technology to address social issues have been implemented in South Africa. One such idea named Fahamu’s Umn Yango (meaning ‘doorway’ in isiZulu) has been implemented to curb domestic violence by equipping people with cell phones as tools to monitor and report abuse. Under this scheme, victims use cell phones to call a predefined and popular number and give details of the abuse.

The fear of being victimized has always made it difficult for victims, witnesses or relatives to step up and lodge complaints to the relevant authorities. There are examples of places where people had reported abuses and had been picked upon by the abuser. We have had friends of a victim reporting an abuse of their friend only to go home to be abused themselves by their spouses as punishment for “poking their noses in other people’s business”. These good citizens were made to pay the price for exposing a wrong thing.  

This fear has been totally eliminated under this project because of the provision of anonymity, the telephone call could be made in secret, and even the details of the reporter are not always required. This is a sharp contrast to the situation in the past where victims, neighbours, or witnesses were required to walk into a police station to make a formal report.

Apart from successes chalked in the number of reports that are received, there has also been a reduction in the numbers of abuse cases. This may be partly due to the deterring feeling among would-be abusers that, any passerby holding a mobile phone might just make sure they get a visit from a police detective for spouse battering.

3.4       ANIMAL FARMING

Technology has also been put to good use in farming.

Farmers who rear cattle in small herds, over time, develop a personal relationship with the animals, the farmer knows all of them and can notice a missing animal or a sick one with just a glance. However, because it takes months of careful observation of the behaviour of every cow to know every animal well enough to take note when there is an infection or when an animal does not ruminate properly, this task would be ineffective if it were performed by a human shepherd with a large herd.

To remedy this situation, the technology of vocal tags has been developed in Europe. This project employs a tag, which is a belt fitted with sensors and worn around each animal’s neck. These sensors monitor several indicators such as the animal’s rate of rumination, voice clarity, digestion and breathing and send the data collected to a central computer.

Over time the computer knows what is normal for every cow and will notify the shepherd when something goes wrong with a cow.

The advantage of this project is that a farmer can take quick and specific action like giving treatment to the particular animal involved. This removes the need to give general treatments to the whole herd, which is both time and money wasting.

These are some of the ways that technology is being used towards increased development.

CHAPTER  4

WHAT LESSONS HAVE BEEN LEARNT?

No matter how promising an idea or project sounds, there are bound to be problems encountered in the deployment of the project. In achieving the above projects, following are some of the problems one is likely to be faced with:

In the election monitoring program, misinformation has been identified to be one of the problems starring the program in the face. It is true that when all the information is not localized in the hands of government, then a lot more transparency will be achieved, but it is also true that mass misinformation remains an unpleasant possibility.

Another problem could arise when there is a situation where people do not necessarily trust the degree of independence of the so called independent observers. It may lead to a problem where parties could cast a slur on the reputation of the observers so as to use the resulting mistrust to set the stage for a possible rejection of the results.

Overall this is a laudable idea and if a means of verification were added, the figures would mean much more to a lot of people.

Whilst celebrating the successes chalked, it is important to note that a number of other factors needed to progress before a state could move towards a more democratic model of governance. According to African political expert, Sheldon Gellar, these changes include: strengthening independent media, growing and ensuring freedom of civil society, decentralizing power, ceding more control to local governments, empowering women and improving judicial systems to ensure independence and power to punish.

Governance is one area that is set to reap some benefits of this phenomenon when used judiciously, unilateral rule and arbitrary action may be reduced towards a more participatory approach to leadership in Ghana

Technology could help achieve those goals to some extent, as communication was the key to overcoming oppression.

In some of the cases, such as the election monitoring or domestic violence reporting, the internet could be used to provide communities with means to communicate, to organize and obtain good information which is not controlled by the government. However, this is not practical in Africa since only a tiny percentage of Africans have affordable access to internet.

In the healthcare project, basic mismanagement has been identified as one of the reasons why many projects seem to skid to halt after being piloted. Needed funds are not always available to those who need them.

Another problem observed was that the people who will be using the project are not always consulted in the designing and planning of the ideas, so there is a lack of communication between beneficiaries, health professionals, technologists, and managers.

Another problem was the theft of cell phones. Although cell phones are a relatively low-cost technology, they still hold considerable value in poverty-stricken areas, and are commonly stolen. And, such theft is likely to rise as these devices become more and more complex. However this is quite debatable since some analysts argue that losing a cell phone to a thief is less of a financial loss than losing a more costly machine.

In the domestic violence project one stumbling block was the communication gap between the various parties involved in the system. Feedback was largely missing and people could not tell whether their input was useful – or received, and in some cases, police officers who receive messages reporting violence against women may not be prepared to respond.

Another problem was the unfortunate situation where some unscrupulous people made the work more difficult for the authorities by raising false alarms. This could be addressed by education and the incorporation of punitive measures.

However to use effective punitive measures, even more advanced technology will be required, for example to pinpoint a particular cell phone subscriber, and take action against them like blocking their Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) Cards etc.

And the usual problem of financing in many projects is ever present as well, and it is the more predominant one in the animal rearing project.

CHAPTER  5

CONCLUSION

Granted, there are challenges that exist in using technology to achieve development goals, but such efforts still hold great potential and the costs of any obstacle will not stand in comparison to the threat of underdevelopment and poverty. So we can only strive to work harder at such solutions.

Our development attempts and efforts should think more seriously about sustainability and scalability. One important consideration in this direction is the affordability of the programmes we plan and develop. The more affordable options have a higher chance of success, so the fact that most of the development projects do not require any extraordinarily complex or new gadgets is indeed pleasant to note.

Also throughout the creation and deploying of any project, enough consultation should be carried out to ensure that there is a general buy-in into the idea from the creators to the beneficiaries. This will make an idea command a common sense of ownership.

The quality of the management should also be improved and measures should be put in place to ensure the right things are done.

Identifying the problem is half the solution. We already now have greater awareness and we have made some attempts at solving them. Putting our acts together to draw the lessons and re-strategizing with a new approach -technology, is definitely the way to go. I am confident of the viability of this new approach.

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Information Technology Forum For Easy Learning

When it comes to any computer-related knowhow, smart professionals of today refer to a good online information technology forum.  Such computer forums have been successful in updating their visitors with uses of latest computer products and services.

You as a bright professional should benefit from such online help that is available right on your PC.  Even skilled tech help experts while repairing their clients’ PC for computer problems refer to a good information technology forum.  This helps them to fill any knowledge gap that even such experts might have while working on their computer technology project.

Today, tech help from such information technology forums is easy-to-use for all PC users.  You are guided on how to fix your computer problem in your own easy way.  This is because such computer forums are meant for all PC users to seek solutions for their computer problems by doing things themselves.  You need not necessarily be comfortable with complicated information technology jargons or keywords.  If you can post your problem in your own easy language, you will get solution for your computer problem in an easy-to-use way.  Tech help experts while assisting you one-to-one in an interactive live forum make sure that they deliver their expert computer advisory services in a way that can be used by you in an easy way.  They work hard so that you get a smart solution for all your computer-related problems in your easy-to-operate way.

If you have any PC-related problem, why not visit a good information technology forum right now for its solution.  You will get your computer solution that will clear all your doubts and PC-related hurdles.  The biggest part is that you get it all free.  You do not spend a single dollar for availing such high-quality computer-related contents and expert one-to-one tech help guidance.

Computer technology is changing fast today.  You need to update yourself with the latest computer products and services.  You need to understand how to use such newer computer products and services.  By taking assistance of a good online information technology forum, you stay updated with all the latest uses in the world of computers.  Wherever you face any computer hurdle, you clear them by taking smart assistance from other PC users and tech help experts.

Computer learning is easy with such good computer forums.  Today, a good computer forum uses various interactive features by which you make your computer learning an easy experience.  From posting your queries to discussions with other PC users, you have all the resources for your computer-related knowhow in one place.

By operating user control panel, you have high-quality computer interaction with tech help experts as well as other PC users in today’s good information technology forum.  You can also exercise various choices in terms of your use and preference.   While interacting with other users, such  computer forums give you a lot of flexibility.  For instance, you can give other visitors a permission to contact you by e-mail or chat.  If you are in shared PC learning with another visitor, tools such as Friends enable you quick access to that member.  Such facilities are very handy for you to communicate fast when you need frequent tech help discussions with other members.  If the template has relevant support, any posts made by Your PC friend will be highlighted.  You may choose not to give such permissions for the time being if you think that it may affect your core activity.  Any way, it is up to you to make such choices.

A good Information technology forum makes your computer learning so easy.  Even a non-technical PC user can understand it so easily.  Such forums are powerful choice for you in your search for high-quality computer-related content in easy-to-use way.

Information Technology Forum For Precise Tech Help

Today, an information technology forum is your true partner in all your computer technology knowhow.  A good information technology forum gives you a strong technical knowhow source of information which you can use as and when needed.  You can count on newer ideas each time you visit a good information technology forum.  They say that great ideas come in small packages.  Visiting an information technology forum regularly will build for you a strong technical support foundation.  Your strong technical support foundation will draw from experiences of experienced PC visitors as well as tech help experts in live tech support forum.  Your forum will help you in all the right way with its fast, interactive Web 2.0 computer technologies.

Within a short period of time, you will be learning all the computer-related trouble-shooting steps that you require to perform when faced with a computer problem.  You will learn to fix your computer problem in a scientific manner.  When faced with a computer problem, you will be performing step-by-step your trouble-shooting steps that will solve your computer problem.  In this way, your computer forum will always assist you in resolving your computer problem.

You will start achieving optimum use of your PC by reducing your wastage time on account of PC hurdles and bottlenecks.  You will also achieve optimum PC performance by reducing your cost on spending for pricy PC professionals.  Today, you do not need to call computer engineers at your home or office and pay them high fees to get your computer problems solved.  Today, instead you visit your tech support forum right when you face a computer problem.  You refer to   tech help tips and immediately start working on the solution.  Today, a good computer technology forum organizes for you all their computer-related contents in a systematic planned manner.  They do it for your easier, faster reference.

They classify their computer-related contents classified under different categories and subcategories for your easy-to-use reference.  For instance, if you are facing a computer problem related with online spyware invasion, you are precisely looking for computer-related contents related with an anti-spam or anti-virus.  You immediately refer to the virus and spyware subforum.  If your computer problem is regarding application servers or web development, you refer to developer subforums.  Whatever you need as a PC user for your computer technology knowhow, a good computer forum is comprehensive in its scope that gives you everything in an organized and easy-to-relate manner.

Unlike your costly computer text books or PC magazines and journals, you can relate directly your computer application needs with your PC because of online support.  Moreover, your computer text books and PC magazines or journals may not be well organized in one place by you in a very realistic way.  Your computer text books and PC magazines and journals may be scattered over a number of different places, and it will be very difficult to get help as and when needed.

Your online information technology forum, on the other hand, gives you everything well organized in one place.  You get precise assistance by immediately referring to tech help that you actually require for your computer problem.

Your information technology forum today meets your tech help needs in an easy-to-use way.  Their help is clear and precise.  You hit the right solution without squandering your precious time on unnecessary information.  This makes it your reliable partner in your computer technology knowhow.

Information Technology Forum For Technical Support

Many small businesses previously run on a local scale are now global because of smarter use of computer technologies. Their enterprises were based on sound business ideas, but their businesses were running on a small scale. By integrating their business plans with smarter use of computer technologies, they have made big.  While their business plan remained the same, only better application of computer technologies made them global.

You are already a successful businessman running your business in your local territory. Now, if you can deliver your business products or services by using smart interactive latest computer technologies, you can easily deliver your products or services globally. It is not that difficult.

Today, you may be a budding entrepreneur with a promising business idea. You too have to look for newer and smarter ways for integrating your promising business idea with latest computer technologies of today. Today, in a good information technology forum, you find all the resources and information that you need to develop your own tailor-made computer applications. Today, globalization and computer technology together can make your business grow very big. At this point, it may appear somewhat crazy to some of your friends. Online information technology forum can be your place of frequent visit where you will constantly find fresh chunk of new computer technology related ideas.

If you are part of a SMEs, you should explore newer computer technology solutions that will help you deliver your products or services in improved ways. It can be by using more of online cheap services. For instance, if you are a quality text-book publisher for students, you can consider of e-delivery of your text books to your customers. In this way, you will meet the learning needs of your customer students much better as well as save your own cost.

Today, e-delivery of books allows students to access learning inputs in various flexible ways. They can opt to take a hard copy from their computer printer. They can also use contents in their classroom PC monitor as and when required. Moreover, it will save them from taking text books physically to different locations if they have their laptop or PC available. You can try such a business model in consultation with your financial analyst and technical support consultant at your information technology forum. This will give you the bigger picture.

If you are more interested in serving community than just making money, today you can make a powerful contribution to the society by delivering your products and services in a more cost-efficient way through internet. There are many social entrepreneurs today who are using a good  information technology forum  and computer technology exactly for this.

Referring a good online information technology forum will help you to know how you can market your business products or services making most of Web 2.0 technologies.  You should explore your own ways of using fast, interactive Web 2.0 computer technologies such as Really Simple Syndication (RSS). RSS is an easy way to distribute a list of headlines, update notices, and web-based contents to a wide audience. It can make your communication system very fast. Webcasting using tools such as Elluminate and Instant Presenter is yet another innovation. These are only some of the latest in computer technology tools that you should explore for your own customized plan.

You too can now make your small business grow global. A good  technical support plan drawing upon sound information technology forum strategies can give you many times more business revenue. Your net profit will be phenomenal.

Grabbing the Latest Interesting Tidbits From Technology Blogs

Technology is one of the most interesting subjects to follow. As technology is constantly evolving, you get new and exciting stuff happening on a daily basis. It is fun and exciting to check on the latest headlines to see what is new, what is in, and what is out. You can get your daily dosage of technology news from various sources.

Established technology sites.

These are huge technology sites that are well recognized in the industry. Sites like CNET, Tomshardware, etc. offer fresh and interesting news on a daily basis. In fact, some sites are so popular that hardware manufacturers actually send them free hardware so that the editors can test them out and post reviews on their sites. That means, you, as the reader, get first hand information on the performance of the latest hardware.

News search engines.

News search engines are not dedicated to technology news, but you can use them to search for your favorite news. Simply type in the keywords (e.g. “latest CPU”), and the latest and most relevant news will be presented to you. You can even subscribe to the news based on those keywords.

Technology blog search.

Technology blog search engines like Technorati are very interesting. They do not work the same way as search engines. You have to wait for the search engines to crawl a site before you get updated content. For blog search engines, the blog actually sends a ping to the search engine, letting the crawler know that there is new content. It’s interesting to observe that blog search engines always tend to get the word out faster than traditional search engines. Perhaps that’s why they are gaining in popularity.

Technology blogs.

From the search engines, you can easily locate technology blogs. There are thousands and thousands of technology blogs on the Internet. So what is it that separates the quality blogs from the not-go-great technology blogs?

Usually, you can tell if a blog is a quality blog or not just be reading the first few posts. On the Internet, everything is about content. So killer content is what you are looking for. For technology blogs, killer content means more than just being grammatically correct. It also means more than just copy and paste specifications. Specifications of technological gadgets are important, but once the specifications have been publicly released, almost every blog can post such information. In other words, the information is not unique.

What you want is unique information – information that cannot easily be found elsewhere. For example, a technology blog can hand pick interesting technology gadgets and write exclusive reviews on these gadgets. You can read about the latest voice activated alarm clock, or the latest gaming laptop, 3G iPhone, etc. Since these gadgets appeal to the masses, you are assured of interesting content. Those are the blogs that are worth reading and following.

You may then choose to follow those news sources by subscribing to their RSS feeds. You can do this using an RSS reader. If you do not want to use a feed reader, you can simply bookmark the sites and visit them at a later date.

Car Insurance Computer Technology

Back in the formative days of auto insurance, the service was far more personalized. The insurance broker would ask you a range of questions relating to your own individual needs, and, if you were lucky, you would get a good deal depending on your needs and your relationship with your broker. Males under the age of 25 usually got a higher policy, and females, being perceived as less of a risk, would get a much lower premium.

Now that computers have become a fixture in the modern world, everything is based and dependant on computer records. Unfortunately now, it doesn’t matter what you say to your insurance broker, your premium will be determined by the statistics they pick up on you. All your personal information is put into the insurance company’s computer system. Nowadays all driving histories are documented on computer records, so the insurance company will be able to track what sort of driver you are and will be able to alter your premium accordingly. Furthermore, other details about you will be captured in the digital world, such as your credit history, traffic offenses and criminal record. All those factors, including your age and address will affect your premium.

The most important thing that you can do is to ensure that your record on the computer systems is kept as clean as possible. You would be shocked to find out the kind of information companies are able to pull up on you when they do a check online. Naturally, you will have to give permission for certain checks and such.

Firstly, if you are given a ticket for a traffic offense, ensure that you pay it immediately to prevent it leaving a black mark on your record. You are usually able to check your traffic fine records online, depending on your area you would have to find out the website to visit. Otherwise you can go to your local traffic department and check up any outstanding fines on your name. This is a good way of ensuring that your record is clear with regards to that. The next thing you can do is to make sure you have a good credit score. Remember that there are statistics that the insurance companies take into account, which are that most car accidents are caused by people with bad credit scores. This may seem strange, but it is a true fact! The insurance companies will take this into consideration, so the clearer your record, the better.

Your accident driving history is not something you can necessarily change, but there are other ways of improving your computed record. You can add an advanced driving course on your record, as well as keeping up to date with payments and traffic fine resolves.