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What the term globalization basically means is ever close economic intermeshing of all the world’s countries through increasing transfer of goods and services, explains Thieß Petersen. Education is a key factor in dealing with the impact of global megatrends. This is not the least of the reasons that have motivated […]

We can see how technologies impact almost every aspect of our lives – from the way we find our spouse to the way we work. What about activism going digital? Being mostly enthusiastic about new technologies and the broken boundaries they brought us, I never questioned their importance and influence […]

Alice Xu investigates the implications of the politically motivated standardisation of language and attempts at censorship of the internet in China: The day that President Barack Obama was inaugurated marked a turning point in the movement towards change. Even my grandfather, who closely followed Obama’s progress in the elections from […]

Traveling around Ghana has made Charles Amega-Selorm realize that Internet access is no longer an issue – but access costs and local content certainly are! If you had asked me a few months back what my position on the Internet in Ghana was, I would have said that we needed […]

Mobile technology gives Cambodians a voice, which signals the rise of more citizen media and social activism, reports Chak Sopheap. Mobile phones have gained popularity since 2000 due to affordability and indispensability. For those at  the bottom of the economic pyramid, this has been a boon. Here in Cambodia, the […]

Over five billion people do not have internet access, ahumanright.org plans to change that. Kosta Grammatis explains why the internet is important in the first place. As of 2009, 83% of the world is literate, and another 80% has access to electricity, these two factors are all that is required […]