Families living on Mornington Island have to make compromises due to a lack of digital services – including missing out on cultural activities on Country .
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New survey shows poor earnings from music streaming made worse by the digital divide and a lack of policy.
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Front-line employees might have effective solutions in digitalising businesses.
Online shopping and services have grown during COVID-19.
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The huge shift towards more digital working and trading are a fundamental challenge to the way countries agreed to interact with each other.
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If this is just one experiment among of tens of thousands, as Google has admitted, in what other ways might users have been manipulated in the past?
Black labourers extracting sludge.
on a mine near Johannesburg at the height of apartheid in the 1980s.
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The life story of Mandlenkosi Makhoba represents the losers in the new South Africa, showing how inequality is produced and reproduced generationally.
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Beyond the obvious risk of financial loss, cyberattacks can weaken our trust in digital infrastructure – and by extension, our trust in public institutions, too.
Internet cafe owner Kaleb Alemayehu checks a computer in Adama City, Ethiopia. Internet shutdowns are common.
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An absence of laws governing the digital space has allowed the government to tinker with internet accessibility as it sees fit.
Research by Relationships Australia released in 2018 revealed one in six Australians experience emotional loneliness, which means they lack meaningful relationships in their lives.
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There is heavy social media use among both the most lonely and least lonely people. So what exactly is the relationship between social media use and loneliness?
Our smartphones are made by rare earth metals, and consume large amounts of electricity.
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Last year, it was estimated data centres around the world generated the same amount of carbon emissions as created by the global airline industry’s fuel usage.
Online activities enable Sudan’s women to work at home without jeopardising social expectations.
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Women in Sudan have been resisting the controls placed on them for some time - by using their smart phones and social media to trade.
Truly learning to code involves more than episodic experiences. Students should ideally develop a ‘coding mindset.’
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Learning to code is often presented as a solution to job market problems of the 21st century, but are students really learning the competencies they will need?
VAR is already proving controversial at this year’s World Cup.
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VAR is part of a wider trend of digitalisation that threatens to make football less natural and spontaneous.
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Britain has always been good at projecting its values to the world. It’s going to need that soft power once it leaves the EU.
High-tech startup success stories shouldn’t hide that the Indonesian economy and population are relying primarily on a myriad of micro and small businesses that are low-tech and low-growth.
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Micro-entrepreneurs make up the bulk of the Indonesian economy and population. But red tape and corruption are keeping them from entering the ‘formal’ sector.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has often spoken of the value of education and learning.
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You may not “like” it, but Facebook has an important role to play in education.
Cities will be driving globalisation and innovation in the emerging world order.
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Welcome to the era of TechPlomacy where a new world order is emerging around cities and their economies, rather than nations and their borders.
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We need media literacy not only to help us detect hoax and fake news but also to read the interest of media owners behind the news.