Most of the television programs are foreign, coming primarily from South Africa, the United States, and Britain. A sizeable number of television viewers have access to video libraries, which have been established in the main urban centers. Very few people have access to direct satellite TV since...
After the breakdown, the authorities acquired a backup satellite system. But it turned out to be insufficient for the country’s needs, providing only about half the bandwidth required. Second, IT professionals accuse the government of not taking Pakistan’s growing commercial dependence on the ...
map of Port-au-Prince, based on digitization of satellite imagery facilitated by social networks such as Crisis Mappers Net (Li and Goodchild, 2012), which was used by crisis responders on the ground in Haiti. Before the earthquake, the OpenStreetMap map of Port-au-Prince had very limited...