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The mine housing some of the United States Office of Personnel Management<\/p><\/div>\n

There\u2019s a bit of a sci-fi feel to Around the World this week. Automatic barmen and party-bots have both made the cut \u2013 as has the suspicious underground lair where the US Government processes some of the most mundane products of a bureaucratic dystopia. All this, and more, below\u2026<\/b><\/p>\n

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USA<\/b>: the problems faced by citizens attempting to sign up for universal healthcare online are nothing new \u2013 only 5% of large federal ICT initiatives in the last decade failed. Just north of Pittsburgh is a little-known, remarkable monument to US Government inefficiency: a vast hole in the ground, an abandoned mine, where hundreds of workers toil away filing and sorting federal pensions claims \u2013 on paper. (WASHINGTON POST<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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NOT IN SPAIN<\/b>: and that\u2019s the problem. Guardian journalist Alan Haburchak is trying to learn Spanish through tech alone \u2013 but without the company of native speakers, he\u2019s beginning to doubt his chances of success (GUARDIAN<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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MYANMAR<\/b>: the world\u2019s top-flight university libraries are the results of centuries of collection. But as Burma\u2019s universities profit from the country\u2019s increasing openness, they are gaining access to world-class e-library collections as quickly as download speeds will allow (BBC<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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JAMAICA\/PANAMA\/HAITI<\/b>: talking to three of the International Development Bank\u2019s Young Innovators, who are using tech for education and social change (GUARDIAN<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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and in other news\u2026<\/b><\/p>\n

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THE RETRO-FUTURE<\/b>: out with the cheese-and-pineapple cubes that made parties look like some relic of the seventies. In with the robots that make parties look like some relic of seventies science-fiction! (BBC<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s a bit of a sci-fi feel to Around the World this week. Automatic barmen and party-bots have both made the cut \u2013 as has the suspicious underground lair where the US Government processes some of the most mundane products of a bureaucratic dystopia. All this, and more, below\u2026   03.04.2014   USA: the problems […]<\/p>\n

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