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Finnish decision to allow same-sex marriage “shows the power of citizen initiatives”
It is the first piece of “crowdsourced” legislation on its way to becoming law in…
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The Future of Europe is Science and ethical foresight should be a priority
– in EthicsHow will we keep healthy? How will we live, learn, work and interact in the…
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Broadband may be East Africa’s 21st century railway to the world
The excitement over the potentially transformative effects of the internet in low-income countries is nowhere…
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Two years after the NYT’s ‘Year of the MOOC’: how much do we actually know about them?
Despite the hype around MOOCs to date, there are many similarities between MOOC research and…
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What does the recent LA School District “iPads-for-all” debacle tell us about the structural changes gripping the US K-12 educational system?
– in EducationWhy are there such vast amounts of resources invested in education technology without substantial evidence…
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Investigating virtual production networks in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia
This mass connectivity has been one crucial ingredient for some significant changes in how work…
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What are the limitations of learning at scale? Investigating information diffusion and network vulnerability in MOOCs
while a lot is known about the mechanics of group learning in smaller and traditionally…
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Outside the cities and towns, rural Britain’s internet is firmly stuck in the 20th century
The quality of rural internet access in the UK, or lack of it, has long…
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Designing Internet technologies for the public good
People are very often unaware of how much data is gathered about them—let alone the…
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The life and death of political news: using online data to measure the impact of the audience agenda
Editors must now decide not only what to publish and where, but how long it…
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Why global contributions to Wikipedia are so unequal
– in DevelopmentThe geography of knowledge has always been uneven. Some people and places have always been…
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What explains the worldwide patterns in user-generated geographical content?
As geographic content and geospatial information becomes increasingly integral to our everyday lives, places that…