MKE discussed the details of the project on Tuesday during the 4th IT Policy Advisory Committee Meeting, held under the leadership of Minister Choi Kyung-hwan at COEX Mall in Samseong-dong, Seoul.
In line with critiques that Korea’s IT industry is overly clustered around the three fields of semiconductor, display, and mobile phones, the government decided to set the grounds for IT convergence by branching out to SW and system semiconductor. The three fields listed take up 71% of Korea’s total IT exports.
The government set aside 100 billion won, quadruple this year’s budget to foster the SW industry. SW and system semiconductor technologies will be linked and co-developed in the auto sector and other key export sectors of Korea.
A box diagram is a powerful tool to display related pieces of information. While writting our articles/papers/reports we often find the need to draw such diagrams, and we tackle the task usign either Visio, Word, PowerPoint or other tool. But as anyone who has already done this knows, the task of connecting boxes with arrows is very tedious and error prone. Or sometimes the tool is not flexible, and moving a single box makes it necessary to re-route the whole thing over.
Well, there is an entire category of tools under the name of "graph editors", which are a tailored, among other things, to design box diagrams. In a nutshel, you only have to describe the nodes (boxes) and the edges (the arrows) and the software does the routing for you. The tool I am showing here is yEd, which is free, and can be downloaded here: http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html. It outputs vector format files, which is good news for the "vector graphics aware" ones.
So, next time you need a block diagram, don't spend your whole sleepless night routing arrows anymore.
Fellows,
I just deleted about 400 fake users. Only one real user (Christian, 2009 Master from Equador)... There were many users with names like casino-online, cheappils, etc.
Note, that I cannot know each ITTP/ITPP student or Alumnus, so there are simple rules for registration: email from KAIST (or SNU as well) domain or some kind of "recommendation" from current ITTP/ITPP student or alumni. This portal is open to any ITTP/ITPP related person (inc. professors, family members, friends)...
I appologize for each "bad erasing of account". Please, contact me on my private email (use your "ITTP/ITPP Passport"), your account will be validated shortly.
Viktor
Sorry for some discomfort, but the security updates are important.
Now, our site is up-to-date...
I found this study while researching around. It is not particularly useful for my current researches, but it sounds very interesting. The reports are inEnglish, Japanese and Spanish, and are FREE! I hope it can be useful for you!
http://www.wri.org/publication/the-next-4-billion
"Four billion low-income consumers, a majority of the world’s population, constitute the base of the economic pyramid (BOP). New empirical measures of their aggregate purchasing power and behavior as consumers suggest significant opportunities for market-based approaches to better meet their needs, increase their productivity and incomes, and empower their entry into the formal economy.
This volume, based on unique access to the household income and consumption surveys of developing and transition countries, offers a new and compelling perspective on low-income communities worldwide. Drawing on income data from 110 countries and standardized expenditure data from 36 countries across the globe, The Next 4 Billion is an important first look at the market opportunity represented by four billion individuals who make up the BOP. The analysis for the first time provides a quantitative assessment and characterization of BOP markets, at several levels of analysis:
http://www.newsweek.com/2010/08/15/interactive-infographic-of-the-worlds...
I am not sure about the methods they used to acquire the data, but I think the infographic layout is really interesting, being specially useful to compare indicators between different countries. I wonder if we could replicate this infographic with "ITTP-useful" data, like IT penetration indexes.
Is there anyone else interested in replicating it? We could post it here after it is finished.
As you know, Chris will study one semester in Paris (France). Fortunately, his trip here in Europe has several levels, so we met yesterday in Prague:
http://www.gastroinfo.cz/pivoklub/index.php?content=nabidkapiv&lang=eng
It is not the typical Czech pub, but you can taste about 40% of Czech beers in one place (and special beers from other countries as well)
Today, he left Prague to Berlin to visit another friend.
So, anybody will come to Prague? ;-)
Taking advantage of the World Cup fever, the South Korean government will map out a plan for economic cooperation with Latin America.
