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With smartphone use and web penetration soaring, Africa is set for a tech revolution – but only if its infrastructure can support it 
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Excerpts from How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet
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By 9.30am today I will have skyped Malawi, emailed Ghana, Facebooked Nepal, paid a bill online and used the satnav on my mobile phone.
Megan Colson's curator insight,
February 4, 2016 9:42 PM
It is great to know that technology is spreading, even to the less developed countries of the world. Although, this new technology is taking away the few jobs available in L.D.C's. M.C 
Lilah Rozar's curator insight,
February 5, 2016 8:33 AM
Developement in technology can be a huge plus to those who are well educated and understand how to use it to their advantag. Although those who are classified as 'poor' or living in LDC's tend to be less educated and deal face problems such as cybercrime and privacy violations. 
Colleen Geiger's curator insight,
February 6, 2016 9:07 PM
I very much agree with not connecting the entire world to the internet, because it wont stop the global problems going around. Usually now the internet is most commonly used by individuals to check social medias and to entertain themselves. Having everyone on the internet will not help the development issues across the world.
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How can we do things together that require money without having to worry about the complexity of creating and maintainin…
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“The internet is shit today. It’s broken. It was probably always broken, but it’s worse than ever.”
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2015 research brief from the Scholars Strategy Network that looks at online political activism and whether the internet encourages certain groups of people to become more engaged in political activities.
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Where the internet came from, how it works, and how it's used by people around the world
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Aral speaking at the European Parliament conference on “Internet as a Commons: Public Space in the Digital Age” as part of “The Big Picture” panel.
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At Thinking Digital 2013, Aral Balkan delivered the most watched and favourited Thinking Digital talk of all time. In 2014, Aral returned to Thinking Digital…
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Predicting that by 2028, 5 billion Internet users around the world will be collectively chewing through at least 1 zettabyte per month - to put that in perspective, 1 zettabyte is 1,000 exabytes, 1 exabyte is 1,000 petabytes, and 1 petabyte is 1,000 terabytes - the report says we’re going to have to think seriously about how we can deliver that. A constellation of tiny Internet-beaming satellites could be a viable option, it says, and Samsung could be the one to build it.
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Do you remember where you were when you first heard of this thing called the Internet?
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This may be a little premature, given that only around 40% of the people in the world have an internet connection — but here goes.
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Adam Gopnik reviews some of the books that celebrate or censure the Internet, and considers what omnipresent information is doing to our minds.
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Not long ago, browsing the Internet, I happened to stumble on a list titled, "The Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time, According to the Internet." Like most lists of its kind, it was subjective and far from definitive, but still, it represented an interesting challenge. As someone who reads for pleasure as much as for job security, I decided to finish as many of the titles as I could handle.
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etYou might also like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h11_rHz7vYc (Bowie interviewed on same day in same place by different person)
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Cover Story in the September issue of Mechanical Engineering magazine
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This presentation begins by summarising changes in employment patterns since the middle of the twentieth century, arguing that the mid 2000s marked the begin...
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Ahead of the Platform Cooperativism conference, Nathan Schneider & Trebor Scholz on an internet economy grounded in solidarity and cooperation.
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MegaUpload creator Kim Dotcom is looking to reinvent the future if the Internet with the help of your smartphone, or 100 million smartphones that is.
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We've created a dark, consequence-free place for libel, threats and harassment -- and no one feels responsible
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This paper contains the proceedings of a seminar on the Internet Identity Marketplace co-organised by D-CENT, ISOC and Teatro Valle. The multidisciplinary seminar included debates and interviews with leading hackers, activists, technologists, economists, philosophers, lawyers and political scientist. They discussed issues such as collective intelligence and the production of subjectivity, surveillance and power, future infrastructures, the commons and the future of identity, citizenship and democracy. - See more at: http://www.nesta.org.uk/publications/internet-common-or-capture-collective-intelligence#sthash.n8IvL9wb.HtYuRqlW.dpuf
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REGISTER FOR THE EVENTThis conference is organised in cooperation with Commons Network and Heinrich Böll Foundation. INTRODUCTIONThe Internet as a whole has become an important part of o
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