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An enriching time spent in the company of specially-abled children and those people making a difference in their lives at the National Association for the Blind (NAB), state branch of Delhi. This was how I spent my New Year’s Eve this time. With the mission to empower the visually challenged […]

Privacy and data protection have never been discussed as much as they are now. Civil society, governments, and companies – they all talk about the same thing: how do we protect our privacy and keep our personal data safe and secure? Yet, if we take one step back and think […]

This article originally appeared on PBS.org and was excerpted by the South Africa Node of the Millennium Project as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Searchlight Process. For more Searchlight content on futurechallenges.org, please click here. The African Media Initiative announced the 20 winners of its African News Innovation Challenge, which aims to drive media innovation […]

The venue of the fc_org barcamp on “How the internet changes our reality?” was a more than 100 year old church now transformed into an event location. This impressive building symbolizes the theme of the barcamp and the spirit of our time quite well: The internet – a medium for […]

“One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There’s always more than you can cope with”, Marshall McLuhan said on The Best of Ideas on CBC Radio in 1967. As with many of McLuhan’s other quotes, this one […]