The Ultimate Guide to Mobile Device Management: Enhancing Business Efficiency and Security

In today’s digitally driven world, where mobile technology plays a crucial role in daily operations, businesses increasingly recognize the importance of implementing robust mobile device management (MDM) strategies. MDM is essential for enhancing operational efficiency and fortifying security protocols that protect sensitive data across all mobile platforms.

Understanding mobile device management

At its core, mobile device management encompasses the administrative area of deploying, securing, monitoring, integrating, and managing mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets, and laptops within the workplace. The primary goal of MDM is to optimize the functionality and security of these devices while ensuring the streamlined op…

RIGHTS: U.N. Disability Treaty Around the Corner?

Alberto Cremonesi

UNITED NATIONS, Jul 17 2006 (IPS) – Negotiations on the first-ever International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities could conclude as early as this August when countries will resume their discussions about the need for a broad treaty to protect disabled people.
We are doing the best, it is a challenge. We are aiming high. I could even go as far as to say we are aiming too high because there are very complicated issues, very technical issues, Jorge Ballestero of the Mission of Costa Rica, one of the leading diplomats negotiating the convention, told IPS.

Of course, we are kind of tired because it has been a very long year, but the good thing is that everyone is in such a very positive mood that everyone wants to have this as soon …

In One Haitian Camp, Life Offers Hardship and Little Hope

A family inside its home in Cannon Camp in Haiti. Credit: Susan Robens-Brannon/IPS

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Jun 21 2012 (IPS) – In the remote, dusty and barren area of northern Port-au-Prince, Cannon Camp houses nearly 6,000 displaced Haitians in tiny and cramped spaces. Nestled among the smattering of tents is the home of a 50-something-year-old mother of 12.

The mother, who asked that her name not be used, was moved to the camp after she lost her small home after the earthquake in Haiti in January 2010. Her new home is a battered one-room tent extended by a partial tarp to make a second room.

Inside are two broken chairs, some blankets, a yellow laundry basket and a …

Tackling Malawi’s Doctor Deficit

The David Gordon Memorial Hospital in Livingstonia, northern Malawi. There are only 177 specialists in the country and the doctor-to-patient ratio remains alarmingly high. Credit: Katie Lin/IPS

BLANTYRE, Malawi , Apr 23 2013 (IPS) – In Malawi, where the healthcare system frequently makes headlines for its shortages of drugs and medical workers, a fact that is often overlooked is that two out of four central hospitals do not have a specialist physician in attendance.

“A lot of conditions are not appropriately diagnosed because they are seen by clinicians who are not aware of the greater spectrum of diagnoses that are possible,” explains Dr. Theresa Allain, assoc…