Growing Rice in Africa
October 16, 2007
Famine and hunger are twin plagues for much of the African continent. They are also two of the reasons that those areas remain in grinding poverty. The requirement to mount new food
Enterra Insights
Month: October 2007
In this blog, we discuss cognitive computing and other cutting-edge technologies with a focus on supply chain management, autonomous decision-making, and innovation. Other topics of discussion include digital enterprise transformation, autonomous intelligent enterprises, emerging technologies, and global trade. Our goal is to advance the public discussion about how cognitive computing and other advanced technologies affect the world in which we live.
Bradd C. Hayes is the active editor of this blog.
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China Still Wrestling with Maintaining Control and Loosening Grip
October 15, 2007
A couple of articles in the Washington Post underscore the continued tension Chinese leaders are creating as they try to retain one party control while learning to embrace liberal democratic principles. Given
World Bank Sets Priorities
October 12, 2007
I found it very interesting that Robert B. Zoellick, president of the World Bank, has targeted for that organization the same regions and situations that Enterra Solutions® has targeted for its Development-in-a-Box™
Mosquito Nets and Development
October 11, 2007
Even when people are of a single mind about an objective, they can have differences of opinion about how to get achieve that goal. That is what is happening with efforts to
Growing Demographic Tensions
October 10, 2007
You would have to be a hermit without access to any news source not to have heard about the immigration debate going on in the United States. Some presidential candidates are vying
Mobile Phones in Africa
October 9, 2007
Occasionally in my posts I have mentioned the fact that the African continent has embraced mobile phone technology at an amazing rate. A recent BusinessWeek Special Report discusses how mobile phones are
Kurdistan’s Dream of Independence
October 8, 2007
Last month the Economist ran a lengthy article about the Kurdish dream of independence [“Does Independence Beckon?” 8 September 2007]. The article begins by noting that for all intents and purposes the
Provincial Development in Iraq and Afghanistan
October 5, 2007
In an earlier post [Tensions Mount with Uneven Iraqi Development], I noted that uneven development in Iraq frustrates people in the Kurdish region because they feel the rest of the country is
Cutting Connectivity in Myanmar
October 4, 2007
Few administrations around the world are more brutal than the military regime that controls Myanmar. Unless you’ve been isolated on an island without any connectivity with the rest of the world, you
Tainted Toothpaste and Super-Empowered Individuals
October 3, 2007
The information age has empowered individuals to a degree never before possible. Perhaps the first person who recognized this was Jody Williams, whose efforts to ban landmines eventually won her and her
