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#6 from 2016: Media (R)evolutions: Time spent online continues to rise

Our Top Ten blog posts by readership in 2016. This post was originally published on February 10, 2016.   New developments and curiosities from a changing global media landscape: People, Spaces,...

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Weekly wire: The global forum

These are some of the views and reports relevant to our readers that caught our attention this week. Global Internet Report 2016Internet Society Today we are at a defining moment in the evolution and...

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Media (R)evolutions: Is the Internet increasing labor market polarization in...

New developments and curiosities from a changing global media landscape: People, Spaces, Deliberation brings trends and events to your attention that illustrate that tomorrow's media environment will...

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Blockchain for Development: A Handy Bluffers’ Guide

Top tip: if you’re in a meeting discussing anything to do with finance, at some point look wise and say ‘you do realize, blockchain is likely to change everything.’ Of course, there is always a...

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Electricity and the internet: two markets, one big opportunity

The markets for rural energy access and internet connectivity are ripe for disruption – and increasingly, we’re seeing benefit from combining the offerings.  Traditionally, power and broadband...

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Weekly wire: The global forum

These are some of the views and reports relevant to our readers that caught our attention this week.Mary Meeker’s 2017 internet trends report: All the slides, plus analysisRecode Kleiner Perkins...

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Media (R)evolutions: What’s the potential of mobile payments?

New developments and curiosities from a changing global media landscape: People, Spaces, Deliberation brings trends and events to your attention that illustrate that tomorrow's media environment will...

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In Africa, technology and human capital go hand in hand

Photo: eLearning Africa Rwanda’s progress from the devastating civil war two decades ago to one of the most rapidly developing African countries is a remarkable narrative on development. Twenty-four...

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Moonshot Africa and jobs

Is new technology “transformative” or “disruptive”?  I’ve heard this topic hotly debated at meetings both within the World Bank and more broadly.  The issue is not just linguistic hair-splitting....

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How can digital technology transform lives and improve opportunities in Bhutan?

The recently opened Thimphu tech park – Bhutan’s first IT park -The Kingdom of Bhutan is a landlocked country located high in the eastern Himalayan mountain range with its population 760,000. Up until...

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