Stories about: World Bank

Count the World Bank Group among the high-profile organizations suffering major data breaches - maybe.

A number of servers at the World Bank Group were repeatedly breached for more than a year by different intruders but it is not clear how much data might have been compromised in the attacks, Fox News reported Friday.

World Bank officials are speaking out about the international gateway license-fee wrangle between mobile phone service providers and African governments.

A project based on the open source software model aims to create free online textbooks for developing nations. Under careful academic oversight, the Global Text Project will produce 1000 textbooks for undergraduate studies in a range of subjects including business, science and arts.

A road map aimed at guiding governments and companies in the development of open information and communication technologies was presented Friday at a World Bank meeting in New York by a group comprised of academics, government officials and industry representatives. The Open ePolicy Group contends that the adoption of open standards is vital to global economic growth and innovation.

Negotiators at a meeting in Geneva last week appear to have defused one of the contentious issues looming over the second phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) later this year. They agreed to make contributions to a "digital solidarity fund" voluntary and not mandatory as demanded by a number of developing countries at the first phase of the summit in 2003.

Open Source software has grown in popularity in the West, but much remains to be known, analyzed, and measured about the importance of Open Source for developing countries.

Hewlett-Packard Co. plans to use grid computing to make available large amounts of computing resources in countries around the world that are looking to build out their technology infrastructures.

People in developing nations could soon be using modified Linux game consoles equipped with satellite links to help them learn about vital health issues. The project, sponsored by Western and Asian business leaders working through the World Economic Forum (WEF), aims to narrow the so-called digital divide.