News and Notes Roundup: March 16

It’s Monday, so of course that means it’s time for another NDItech News and Notes Roundup. As we creep towards March Madness and you all begin to fill out your brackets, take a few moments to gain some inspiration from this week's tech and tech4dem links. As always, be sure to check us out on Twitter, Facebook, and our blog site, nditech.org.

This week in tech history, in 1995, the world’s first Wiki, WikiWikiWeb, was created as Ward Cunningham invited people to add and edit content. Cunningham has said the inspiration for the name Wiki came from the Wiki Wiki Shuttle bus he learned of during a trip to Hawaii. Six years later, Wikipedia was launched, although Cunningham had no official involvement. Also this week in tech history, the first internet domain was registered by Symbolics (symbolics.com), a Massachusetts computer company. Since its creation in 1985, symbolics.com has changed owners and is now run by a small inverstor group based in Dallas, Texas. It is the first and oldest registered domain name out of approximately 275,000,000 domain names in existence.

Now, time for the links:

Popular Tech News:

• Social media is changing the way millennials keep up with the news

• How the US and other governments are fighting against ISIS on Social Media

• Blackberry releases a high-security tablet for businesses and governments

• Facebook re-establishes the fine line between violent or offensive content versus free sharing of information

• Dyson invests in technology that may double smartphone and electric car battery life

ICT and Development:

• Uber and UN Women team up for gender equality and development

• Botswana, in collaboration with many ICT companies, launches a new TV white spaces pilot project

• Cuba finally approves its first public wifi hub

• W4 launches a new project, Why-Not Women, to bridge Tanzania’s gender gap in ICT’s

• How the ICT sector of Angola recorded 55% annual growth over the past 10 years

Mobiles:

• Are mobile phone surveys effective in developing countries?

• Mobiles are improving incentive schemes for health workers

• Great strides have been made to increase access to mobile phones, but the job is not yet complete

• An informative slide show on the mobile landscape of Mozambique in 2015

• How women are being left behind in the mobile service boom