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Women

Influential women in the tech industry

Women in the technology sector face a whole host of obstacles to success. Structural sexism is widely reported, with 52% of women saying they are paid less for the same job. Zero women executive boards appear to be the norm, a...
by Sneha Nanavati
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Health

The Future Of Medicine: How Telemedicine Could Combat Epidemics

The phrase “six degrees of separation” has its roots in the 1969 small-world experiment of Stanley Milgram. He distributed packages to citizens in Omaha and gave them only the most skeletal information about the unknown rec...
by Brandon Engel
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Science

When Will Robots Replace Humans Across Global Industries?

You may not know Hon Hai, but it is to produce 70% of all iPhones 6. It also operates the largest factories on Earth. Terry Gou, founder and chairman, based his success on cheap labor costs as well as audacious merging strategi...
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Environment

Information Revolution And Climate Action: A Marriage With A Promise?

On September 23, 2014, as world leaders, corporations and other actors at the UN New York headquarters gave pledges on how they plan to address the challenge of climate change, climate-oriented blogs and social media platforms...
by Kennedy Mbeva
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The ‘Choice’ Of Fashionable Phones

I know that this might sound crazy, but since Apple released the latest installment of the iPhone 5s and iOS 7 software, I’ve noticed my old and worn out iPhone 4S is starting to crap-out on me. I know I am not the only one; ...
by Austin Macfadden
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We Must See Africa Differently

Africa is no longer a collection of failed states beset by regional conflict. A fast growing middle class working white-collar jobs in smart office blocks are changing the continents skyline and the socio-economic reality on t...
by Robert Scott
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What We Know About The Internet And Political Protest (II)

I left you with a point in the previous article: it is unlikely that the Internet will lead to liberation – or oppression – all around the globe, just because of its inherent features. What usage of the Internet can...
by Daniel Cavanillas
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What we know about the Internet and political protest (I)

The quote above is extracted from an article written in 1985 by George P. Schultz, US Secretary of State at the time. Even if I hadn’t just told you that the quote dates back to the 1980s, you would probably have been abl...
by Daniel Cavanillas
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WATCH: Can Technology Solve Our Big Problems?

In 1969, Buzz Aldrin’s historical step onto the moon leapt mankind into an era of technological possibility. The awesome power of technology was to be used to solve all of our big problems. Fast forward to present day, and wh...
by Natasha Lipman
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