Mine of mismanaged information The mine housing some of the United States Office of Personnel Management There’s a bit of a sci-fi feel to Around the World this week. Automatic barmen and party-bots have both made the cut – as has the su... Read More April 3, 2014 News
>:-(O! Africa tops the bill in this edition of Around the World – take a look at the top tech entrepreneurs on the Continent, and the highly innovative school that has made waves on the international design scene. Plu... Read More March 27, 2014 News
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
