Similar to the Information and Communication Task Force (ICT) - launched last year - the Forum Task Force is charged with developing and promoting public and private sector initiatives to close the digital divide.
That is one of the primary functions of the United Nations Information and Communication Technologies Task Force, which brings together chief executive officers, government officials, nongovernmental organisations, technical experts and other...
In particular, the government is looking for the public sector to aggregate its demand for broadband in certain areas, with the help of the Broadband Task Force. This makes it economical for service providers - generally BT, in most areas - to...
The Anti-Spam Research Group (ASRG) of the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) formed a subcommittee earlier this month to hammer out differences between a number of competing protocols that all aim to do the same thing: verify that email senders...
The broad swath of initiatives is needed to help companies improve the quality of their software, said Scott Charney, chief security strategist for Microsoft and co-chairman of the Security Across the Software Development Life Cycle Task Force.
Open sourcing products doesn't mean you have less revenue; it means you have less barriers to revenue," he said. One force is the demand for Sun to open up Java, and the other is concern for compatibility.
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