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Text messaging to ensure that TB patients in developing countries take their medication every day is showing promise in trials.

Researchers have devised a version of the web that requires cellphones instead of computers, targeted at people who cannot read or write

A mobile phone application called EpiSurveyor proved instrumental in monitoring and containing a polio outbreak in Kenya.

The Maldives has launched a pioneering system for its citizens to bank primarily using mobile phones.

Despite the acceleration of mobile technology in the developing world, the humble text message reigns supreme.

The digital audio medium of podcasting is being adapted by developing nations to give local people a voice. Katherine Nightingale reports.

An eminent Indian scientist believes India can close the urban-rural divide with information technology, writes Daemon Fairless.

Learning Braille can be a formidable challenge in developing countries. Supriya Kumar profiles a new device that's addressing the task.

T. V. Padma takes a look at methods that are helping the developing world's blind people see again, and helping them live more easily.

The rapid growth of technology parks in the Arab world has so far created more expectations than outcomes, reports Waleed Al-Shobakky.

Arguments over management of the planned East African Submarine System could mean economic disaster for businesses, writes Lloyd Gedye.

Mobile phones will soon make tracking epidemics and receiving healthcare much easier, reports Manasee Wagh.

A new entrant is heating up the competition to provide low-cost computers to students in the developing world, writes Bobbie Johnson.

Solar and wind energy are being used by Namibian rural network providers to power communications base stations, reports BBC Online.

Modifying technology in unique ways is helping South Africans communicate, reports BBC Online.

Today's maps are sophisticated tools, helping developing countries track everything from drought to disease, reports TV Padma.

Tatum Anderson reports on how mobile phone technology is changing people's lives in Africa and Asia.

New mobile phone software could allow health workers to track diseases in developing countries.

A massive high-speed cable, new software and educational outreach look set to transform Internet access for Africa.

Technologists are at odds over how to bridge the digital divide. What one group calls the ultimate solution, another dismisses as "the scam of the century", reports Waleed al-Shobakky.