ITR: A Scalable Enabling IT Infrastructure for Developing Countries

标题：ITR：发展中国家可扩展的IT基础设施我们提议启动一个项目，ICT4B（数十亿人的信息和通信技术），旨在使信息通信技术的好处在世界所有地区可用和有用。我们的跨学科团队将专注于开发明确为发展中地区的物理、政治和经济现实设计的硬件/软件基础设施。信息和通信技术的变革潜力创造了新的机会，可以撬动一直难以妥协的发展问题。潜力在于信息通信技术为所有经济和政治部门提供的工具。这些工具可以影响组织的每一项活动，可以在广泛的行业和公共企业中实现。最重要的是，它们在最广泛的意义上推动经济发展。利用信息通信技术挑战次优制度，特别是腐败和低效的“市场”，为形成有利于社会的新平衡提供了难得的机会，有助于实现国家和目标的更广泛的发展目标。

EIA- 0326582Brewer, EricUniversity of California-BerkeleyTitle: ITR: A Scalable Enabling IT Infrastructure for Developing Countries We propose to initiate a program, ICT4B (Information and Communication Technology for Billions), aimed at making the benefits of ICT available and useful for all areas of the world. Our interdisciplinary team will focus on developing a hardware/software infrastructure explicitly designed for the physical, political and economic realities of developing areas. The transformative potential of ICT creates new kinds of opportunities to gain leverage on development problems that have been intransigent. The potential lies within the tools that ICT provides to all economic and political sectors. These tools can affect every activity in which organization, can be achieved across a wide range of industries and public enterprises. Most important, they drive economies in the broadest sense of that term. Using ICT to challenge suboptimal institutions and particularly corrupt and inefficient "markets" provides a rare chance to fashion new, socially beneficial equilibria that contribute to the broader development goals of countries and goals.