ICTrees In the popular imagination, “desertification” in the Sahara conjures up an image of inexorable walls of sand advancing, as the climate warms, southwards into the Sahel. In reality, the situation is... Read More March 21, 2014 News
Antisocial networking As MOOCs move into their second phase, the knives are coming out: questions have been raised about their effectiveness, their openness – and now, about ownership and copyright. News has also come in this week a... Read More March 20, 2014 News
From hackerspace to outer space The Web turned 25 yesterday, and its inventor, Tim Berners-Lee, took the opportunity to call for a bill of online rights to defend users against surveillance. Meanwhile as Iran considers scaling down its censor... Read More March 13, 2014 News
The archaeology of the World Wide Web March 12th 2014 marks the 25th birthday of the World Wide Web. It was on this day in 1989 that Tim Berners-Lee submitted his original proposal for a “global hypertext system” to CERN, a system he originally tit... Read More March 12, 2014 News
Loggerhead turtles – a varnishing species? War and peace this week in Around the World. The battle-lines are being drawn online, both in Europe’s new flashpoint, Crimea, and on the North/South Korean border. But this shouldn’t overshadow the good news: ... Read More March 6, 2014 News
Smart Health – Interview with keynote speaker Prof Michael Rigby Health systems are facing growing challenges - from demographic change, from new therapeutic opportunities and new means of maintaining those with long-term illness, and from increased public expectations. An i... Read More February 28, 2014 News
Congo Robocop This week in Around the World, discover the small-scale tech innovation projects that could have a huge impact on the world of tomorrow, from Congolese robotics to Estonian startups. Meanwhile, Swiss languages ... Read More February 27, 2014 News
Give me a drone where the buffalo roam… Stories from Ukraine have sobered the widespread adulation previously given by gushing journalists to social and communicative media since the revolutions in the Arab world. We previously reported on the text m... Read More February 20, 2014 News
How Mali writes love letters, and other stories Around the World is off to slightly fewer destinations this week – giving us the chance to explore these areas in more detail. China already provides its metropolitan citizens with perhaps the best education in... Read More February 13, 2014 News
Blogging, bloating, and other stories… It’s a series of upsides and downsides this week in Around the World, with stories of technology’s incredible ability to inspire, empower, annoy – and even oppress. In Kenya, an innovative app is providing eye ... Read More February 6, 2014 News
