Children today are growing up in a digital society. They will never know what it was like living in a world without the internet or mobile devices. They are digital savvy and their distinction between offline and online worlds increasingly blurs by the day. But being media savvy is not the same as being...
Earlier this week Prime Minister Gordon Brown delivered an interesting speech to the Technology, Entertainment and Design (TED) conference in Oxford. He talked of the power of today’s technology in organising and uniting communities around the world on particular issues, such as climate change, the financial...
No other country is experiencing such a boom in internet users as China. And few countries share China’s strict censorship rules. So can China and the internet ever truly function side by side, or is it a partnership that is doomed to controversy and, ultimately, failure? Partly due to the sheer size...