Untapped: Why the developing world must treat IT as a national resource
Connotea Imports 2012-07-31
Summary:
"One specific example of efforts being made to encourage economic growth through technology is ULAP, the University Learning Acceleration Platform [ULAP], which also means “cloud” in Filipino dialect....The mission of ULAP is to provide researchers with a scalable computing infrastructure that provides open access to the research within and across the seven universities. The long-term goal is to continually increase its capacity to approximately 10 million compute hours annually. The combination of open source building blocks with an open hardware blueprint aims to attract technology philanthropists and bright minds to help sustain technological advancement in a developing nation’s university program...."