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Soaring flows of data and information now generate more economic value than the global goods trade. 
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We live in a time of digital Darwinism, an era when technology and its impact on business and society are constant with varying, but inevitable, degrees of both evolution and revolution. The effect of
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It's a tale of many sides. Most often we only get the positives of digitalization, while those speaking for the negative are hauled off to a padded cell. But a Berlin summit wants us all to come together.
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Many organizations today are findings themselves at the digital crossroads: They have an enormous stake in how the business operates today, yet the world is changing at an all-time fast rate, requiring ever greater commitment to change, often down multiple competing paths. The frustration is knowing which are short-term fads and which actually represent crucial long-term shifts in the technology market that organizations simply must invest in.
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In the midst of e-waste traffickers, Africans are endeavouring to find ways to breathe new life into these discarded materials.
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February 27, 2015 2:34 AM
In dumps all over Africa, Africans are taking in what seems like useless E-junk and are finding ways to recycle it. From the large disposal of old technology as Africa moves forward, areas are filled with large amounts of what is junk to some could be worth a lot more after processing takes place. Many unorganized workers go there everyday at risk of their own health for the livelihood of their families. In some places the E-waste is taken to more organized facilitates where decent technology can be sold at stores for large amounts of money, but in other areas it is collected to survive. This article helped me understand how Africa is moving forward with technology, and that Africans are resourceful. The article stated that the E-Junk was hidden very well by the government, so it was pretty awesome when poor African families found all this stuff and are being resourceful and making money from it. This article made me sad that people have to do this to gain wealth but it also showed me how productive Africans can be.
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Many insurers understand the need to adopt digital technologies as part of their business models, but are uncertain about how to actually do it. Here's where to start.
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Now, more than ever, businesses need to have digital transformation in mind. However, digital transformation cannot be fueled only from IT – all lines of business and operational processes need to be aligned. For example, marketing can benefit greatly from social and data analytics with a deeper understanding of the consumer's wants. Armed with technology, businesses can take advantage of predictive marketing and provide enhanced customer service for an integrated experience.
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We’re connected 24/7 to smartphones, tablets, computers and smart devices from televisions to cars. All those devices store our personal information — when we ask them to. I’m just as guilty as anyone, linking my smartphone to Google and Facebook, instantly connecting me and my 200 “closest” friends to what I do and importing all emails and phone numbers my contacts have shared with me the minute I logged on with my smartphone.
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Most transhumanists are already familiar with digitalism, even if they haven’t heard the name. Digitalism uses ideas from computer science to develop new ways of thinking about old topics. Writers like Ed Fredkin, Hans Moravec, Frank Tipler, Nick Bostrom, and Ray Kurzweil are digitalists. Typically, digitalists are scientists, rationalists, naturalists, and atheists. Nevertheless, they have worked out novel and deeply meaningful ways of thinking about things like ghosts, souls, gods, resurrection, and reincarnation.
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By 2050 there will be 9 billion people to feed, clothe, transport, employ and educate. We’re committed to a growth-driven world economy that must inflate for centuries, supplying limitless consumption to everyone. With new tech, could we add a digital world that helps everyone succeed and prosper while working together? Could we become a successful world where greatness is normal?
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Any book featuring the phrase “today’s youth” in the subtitle immediately has me on edge. It conjures up a generation gap, “tune in, turn on, drop out” and brown acid. Updating this story, we enter a world of Miley Cyrus’ piercings, twerking and tongue aerobics.
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February 10, 2015 3:33 PM
This author gives an overview with her insight about the new book by Howard Gardner and Katie Davis. The main focus of the book is to discover how Apps are impacting Indentity, Intimacy and imagination. Apps are easily accessible, simple and require little expertise to manage. How are they affecting the ethical compass of today's youth? This book apparently answers these questions.
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The digital revolution, we are told everywhere today, produces democracy. It gives “power to the people” and dethrones authoritarians; it levels the playing field for distribution of information critical to political engagement; it destabilizes hierarchies, decentralizes what had been centralized, democratizes what was the domain of elites.
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Where will digitalisation lead? Different trends are already detectable, and each would lead towards quite a different vision of a future.
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Tighter alignment is one of the most well-known benefits of corporate social collaboration, but these other advantages may where you reap serious gains.
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The message to younger generations by Jeremy Rifkin, President of Foundation on Economic Trends.
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The new buzzword for CeBit 2015, referring to the rapid digital transformation or digitisation of business created by the IT industry. The theme will provide a backbone for CeBit participants to focus on how they are individually and co-operatively shaping business and everyday life.
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IT managers and business owners need more alignment to provide services that help increase responsiveness
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In the digital economy new business models, platforms and brands rise over night while seemingly big industry names can suddenly be forgotten or evolve into something new. Scott Galloway of digital innovation think tank L2 calls it a winner-take-all ecosystem.
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We’re under attack! Social, mobile, real-time, cloud, big data…it’s coming at us all at once! Rather than miss out, many brands are jumping from trend to trend as a way of staying relevant in an increasingly digital market.
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Institutional repositories are increasing in number, improving access to online archiving and preserving and disseminating digital copies of the intellectual output of research institutions. Doors are opening for students in low-income countries to access instructional and tutorial materials from leading universities in the developed world at the touch of a button.
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Abstract: This is an article about social-technological development, the rise of certain concepts of controlling peoples digital identities and the data linked to them, and about freedom and self-determination.
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Tomorrow marks the 25th anniversary of Tim Berners-Lee’s initial proposal for what would become the World Wide Web. Think about how different media and technology were in 1989 from today. Now imagine how different things might look at a year that sounded like science fiction not that long ago: 2025.
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In 2018, no company will have a chief digital officer. In fact, many will wonder why they ever had one. The CDO was a response by the management of many manufacturing, services and agency businesses to the emergence of a set of networks, devices and protocols that created new consumer behaviours, new businesses, new media and communication experiences.
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