In a democracy, the “people” are the supreme arbiters, and their wisdom speaks through the electoral process. Such is the assumption on which the modern world has been built since God and monarchs began to fade from the scene. Lately, however, the wisdom of the people has felt a bit off-key. In one country after another, from the Philippines ...

  Of an estimated 2.6 billion mobile-phone owners in low- and middle-income countries last year, 1.4 billion were men and 1.2 were women, according to a study conducted for the mobile industry trade group GSMA. Most of that mobile-phone gender gap was concentrated in just one country, India, where 114 million fewer women than men had phones. This leads to ...

  In the 1930s, when U.S. started to build public housing, it was focused in the inner cities, because that’s where lots of poor people lived and worked. In recent decades, public housing is more about giving poor people vouchers, which allows them to move into the suburbs. As a result, poverty in the U.S. is no longer mainly an ...

  Dubai / WAM The Jebel Ali Free Zone (Jafza) is showcasing an integrated package of services and smart new solutions for customers and companies during GITEX Technology Week 2016. In line with the vision of Vice President and Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, to transform Dubai into a Smart City, Jafza ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business The Centre for Regulation of Transport By Hire Cars in Abu Dhabi – TransAD, has officially announced its partnership with Telematics Networking & Communications LLC, in its rollout of Smart Wi-Fi across its entire fleet of taxi’s in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. Passengers riding TransAD’s fleet of taxis in Abu Dhabi will enjoy a ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The Ministry of Finance (MoF) launched a new technology, MoF Private Cloud IaaS, infrastructure as a service, during its participation in GITEX Technology Week 2016. MoF Private Cloud provides a secure IT infrastructure, with minimal intervention from operators and system administrators. The MoF Private Cloud was launched in the presence of Younis Haji Al Khoori, Under-Secretary ...

  Dubai / WAM The Ministry of Finance (MoF) signed a cooperation agreement with the Federal Competitiveness and Statistics Authority (FCSA) at GITEX Technology Week, to strengthen technical cooperation between the two parties and encourage the exchange of financial and economic information. The agreement was signed by Younis Haji Al Khoori, Under-Secretary of MoF, and Abdulla Nasser Lootah, Director General of ...

  Dubai / WAM Abu Dhabi Media Company (ADM) has successfully commenced a live broadcast of media business continuity on telecom operator du’s media cloud services. ADM’s Live HD channel broadcast the solution end to end, and replicated the HD Live channel through the cloud to deliver business continuity, essentially running the entire broadcast operations in the cloud from ingest through ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The National Central Cooling Company (Tabreed) announced that it has now surpassed 1 million Refrigeration Tons (RT) of cooling capacity. Jasim Husain Thabet, Tabreed’s CEO, said, “This is a significant milestone to celebrate for our company and our customers, and we are proud to deliver our services to such an iconic theme park in the region. ...

  Bloomberg Ryanair Holdings Plc cut its profit guidance as the slump in the pound following Britain’s vote to quit the European Union weighs on fares, after previously holding out against a revision. Net income in the year ending March 31 will increase by about 7 percent rather than the 12 percent previously estimated as sterling’s slide has a bigger ...