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Many of the challenges faced by social media companies come down to failures of design. shutterstock.com

Ethical design is the answer to some of social media’s problems

Tech companies are beginning to recognise that there is an ethical dimension to their work, and that they have some responsibility for the well-being of their users.
Readers should cast a more critical eye over information they use from the web, to make sure the knowledge built from it is trustworthy and accurate. Shutterstock

Three strategies to help students navigate dodgy online content

A report has discovered that while students born after 1980 have good digital skills, they need to think more critically about what they read online.
Ella Russell, a second grade student at Jamestown Elementary School in Arlington, Virginia, works on an e-book during class. AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin

Textbooks in the digital world

Textbooks were once a major piece of educational infrastructure. But as digital content expands, a new kind of ‘textbook’ is improving the quality of K-12 instruction.
Modern working conditions are forcing unions to alter the way they are structured. Search Results Australian Nursing & Midwifery Federation

Three strategies unions are considering for their survival

There are some different strategies unions are now considering to help these organisations survive in a changing economy.
The Productivity Commission report is not a comprehensive plan of what government should do about digital disruption. www.shutterstock.com

Digital disruption: STEM graduates and more regulation not the answer

A Productivity Commission report on digital disruption argues that government’s should stop creating barriers to innovation but it fails to provide solutions on privacy and ownership of data.
The author (right) and Toby Grime, Artistic Director Animal Logic (left), inside UTS’s new Data Arena. UTS

The future of data science looks spectacular

Today’s world is drenched in data, and we need the best tools to help us understand and use it.
Can the inner city of Johannesburg become the flat white that is proving the perfect brew in London’s East End? Wits Archives

The plan to make Johannesburg home to a digital revolution

Drawing on models that have proved hugely successful in major cities around the world, Wits University is creating a large and ambitious Digital Innovation Zone.

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