A key problem was China, where the volume of sales fell by 48% as buyers there shift to smartphones – often running versions of the Android software – made by indigenous companies.
Inheritance scams and computer and prediction software also caused significant losses among Indigenous people.
But they ultimately contend that making refereeing better is not like making widgets or software, that human error is as indigenous to basketball as the chest pass.
Likewise, much of the rapid advance in communications in recent years reflects innovations – smartphone and tablet hardware and software, for example – that has been indigenous to the US.
Having examined a number of potentially suitable research methodologies, we have chosen Grounded Theory as a suitable approach to determine what was happening in actual practice in relation to software process and SPI, using the indigenous Irish software product industry as a test-bed.
A number of indigenous computation codes were developed, while use of commercial software can also be found.
An Internet discussion group, Indigenous Languages and Technology, is full of announcements for new software to build sound dictionaries and a project to collect tweets in Tok Pisin, a creole language spoken throughout Papua New Guinea, or Pipil, an indigenous language of El Salvador.
Microsoft is helping build a software industry from scratch, forming joint ventures with indigenous firms, promoting basic research at Chinese universities, and training students and entrepreneurs in its own state-of-the-art development methods.
Recent advances in software tools to analyze qualitative data for use in Indigenous knowledge research, for example, in agent-based, and artificial intelligence (AI) software that provides reasoning capabilities, suggest some possible ways forward (Sillitoe & Marzano, 2009).
