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By Guest PostJune 26, 2012Education, Generalafrican countries, burt abrams, business strategy, cita, economic development, economic growth, fdi, foreign direct investment, france, gdp growth, hiv, hiv situation, internet, jim butkiewicz, laurence seidman, light, modern defense, newark campus, parameter, pearson hall, robert schweitzer, samuel mathey, sheldon demby, skype, speed of connection, stacy weile, time lag, university of delaware, video conference, voice, west africa

First UD student successfully defends doctoral dissertation via Skype

Samuel Mathey, a graduate student in the Department of Economics at the University of Delaware, has become the first doctoral student in the Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics to successfully defend a dissertation via Skype.

On Tuesday, June 12, Mathey’s dissertation committee sat in a Pearson Hall video conference room on UD’s Newark campus while he attended his defense virtually from France.

Committee members for Mathey’s defense included Burt Abrams (chair), professor of economics; Jim Butkiewicz, professor of economics; Laurence Seidman, professor of economics; and Robert Schweitzer, professor of finance. (more…)

Build it and They Will Come? Think Again

By Guest PostJanuary 25, 2011Economyair travel passengers, american cities, conventional wisdom, dallas, east coast, economic development, Houston, job creation strategies, job growth, jobs, miami, midwestern cities, permanent nonfarm jobs, Phoenix, riverside, sunbelt cities, zachary neal

EAST LANSING, Mich. — When it comes to economic development in American cities, the trusted old theory “If you build it, they will come” may not work, a Michigan State University sociologist argues in a new study.

Conventional wisdom holds that job growth attracts people to urban areas. (more…)

Bharti Airtel and IBM Join Forces to Transform Emerging African Mobile Communications Market and Fuel Economic Development Across the Continent

By Guest PostSeptember 17, 20101 commentEconomy, Technologyafrican continent, african mobile communications, bharti airtel, bharti airtel limited, crowne plaza hotel, economic development, ibm, ibm research, Kenya, nairobi, samuel j. palmisano, spoken web, sunil bharti

NAIROBI, Kenya & ARMONK, N.Y. – 17 Sep 2010: In a move that will accelerate the transformation of African mobile communications and positively impact the speed of economic development across the African continent, Bharti Airtel Limited and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the selection of IBM to manage the computing technology and services that power Bharti Airtel’s mobile communications network spanning 16 African countries.

An agreement is expected to be finalized in the fourth quarter.

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Modern Defense

Build it and They Will Come? Think Again

Bharti Airtel and IBM Join Forces to Transform Emerging African Mobile Communications Market and Fuel Economic Development Across the Continent