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Russia and Vietnam pledge to strengthen ties as Vladimir Putin visits Hanoi.
Africa holds the world’s largest untapped digital growth potential.
Eddie Webster inspired generations of scholars with his vision and practice of critically engaged scholarship, in South Africa and worldwide.
We’re being tracked, targeted and profiled by businesses and data brokers. A new report on consumer data handling shows we need an urgent update of privacy laws.
Washington’s protectionist industrial policy is fracturing trade and investment flows based on geopolitical considerations.
An investigation has revealed that French tech firms, seeking to create an AI “à la française”, have turned to one of the country’s former colonies, Madagascar, for low-cost labour.
Ghanaians aren’t using the new ‘smart’ street address system which was intended to improve service delivery.
The tax on electronic transactions has not generated as much revenue as the government of Ghana expected.
It’s still fashionable today to promote tech startups and tech hubs based on models from the global north. But new, alternative and more sustainable models might be emerging.
Whereas digital work can bring freedom and flexibility into the lives of workers in Africa, it can also contribute towards their precarity and vulnerability.
The introduction of these technologies in Ghana has created an enabling platform for consumers to use their mobile phones to pay for goods and services
Digital technologies like artificial intelligence and wireless networks will be crucially important for Australia’s economy. A new report urges the government to invest strongly in our digital future.
We need a tenfold increase in the digital economy budget spending for Australia to become a leading digital economy.
There’s more substance to the surging price of Bitcoin than last time. But there’s still good reason to be cautious about investing in it.
A deepfake nude bot hosted by the social messaging app Telegram is being used to abuse women – why this isn’t illegal.
There is a growing mismatch between what education and training provide and the skills needed in workplaces being reshaped by the digital economy. Advanced apprenticeships can help close the gap.
Our current digital era and reliance on technology favours information as a form of capital.
Teaching children digital literacy skills is essential to help them learn how to navigate and respond to misinformation. It also helps them grow into adults who can participate in digital democracy.
Most of Facebook’s revenue comes from the millions of small businesses that advertise on the platform.
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Senior Lecturer in Networking, The Open University
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Co-director, Centre for Digital Business, University of Salford
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Professor of Cybersecurity, School of Computer Science and Informatics, De Montfort University
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Professor of Reading and Children’s Development, The Open University
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Professor of Formal Philosophy / Director of Center for Information and Bubble Studies, University of Copenhagen
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Professor of Strategy, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management
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Associate Professor, Informatics and Operations, Kingston University
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Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Surrey
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Professor, Computer Networking and Telecommunications, University of Salford
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Senior Lecturer and Researcher in Innovation and Digital Leadership, University of Brighton
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Head, The Cyber Academy, Edinburgh Napier University
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Professor of Practice, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
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Director of the International Gaming Research Unit and Professor of Behavioural Addiction, Nottingham Trent University
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, UCL
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Professor of Sociology (retired), Lancaster University
