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Sep 16, 2022 · Reflections on the digital age: 7 improvements that brought about a decade of positive change. Sep 16, 2022. The new digital age enabled billions of people to collaborate and mobilize to fight climate change. Image: Photo by kazuend on Unsplash. This article is part of: Sustainable Development Impact Meetings.
Apr 24, 2019 · Leaders in this new age need to inspire, engage and lead with optimism. Technology can play a role in reduce racial, gender and economic inequalities for vast numbers of people. By empowering others to pinpoint and solve critical problems, digital leaders will have the power to shape the future of our world.
Oct 1, 2021 · Barriers to technology adoptions Image: AARP. Ensuring digital inclusion for older adults means overcoming five key barriers: access, installation, knowledge, design, and trust. Providing high-speed, low-cost internet and devices, along with installation and support, is foundational for addressing connectedness.
Jan 19, 2021 · The Chinese government issued plans in November last year to help elderly people overcome barriers to using smart technology. Meanwhile tech companies, such as e-commerce company JD.com, are stepping up their efforts to ease the transition. Here are three major trends in this arena: 1. Taking online in-store.
Jan 24, 2022 · Competition policy should be revamped for the digital age. Antitrust laws and their enforcement must be strengthened. The digital economy poses new regulatory challenges that must be addressed, including issues surrounding the regulation of data (the lifeblood of the digital economy), competition issues relating to digital platforms that have ...
Sep 8, 2021 · The world is more wired than ever. Digital networks connect everything from office computers and bank accounts to baby monitors and pacemakers. Connectivity is blurring the lines between what is public and private. Privacies usually taken for granted – from web searches to heart-beats – are being steadily exploited in exchange for ...
Feb 13, 2017 · Governing in the age of data. The rapid pace of technology evolution over the past decades gave us new business models (at the centre of which is e-commerce), an unprecedented level of global connectivity (accelerated by the smartphone phenomenon). These developments created enormous volumes of data, which led to the rapid rise of the “data ...
Mar 14, 2024 · The foundations for modern digital payments were laid in the late 1950s with the introduction of the first credit and debit cards, but it was the invention of Bitcoin in 2009 that set the stage for a new era of secure digital transactions. The first decentralized cryptocurrency, Bitcoin introduced a new form of digital payment system that operates independently of traditional banking systems ...
Jan 23, 2015 · Technology, as a creative partner, has always shaped the ways in which stories are found and told. In the 21st century, for example, the mass democratization of creative tools – code, data and algorithms – has changed the relationship between creator and audience. The Digital Storytelling Lab, therefore, is a place of speculation, of ...
Jul 14, 2023 · Moreover, the digital transition of SMEs speeds up productivity growth and bridges inequalities among people, firms and locations, as well as reducing human resources, saving time and improving the overall quality of outputs. E-commerce and digital trade are expected to be adopted by 75% of businesses, providing SMEs with new avenues for growth ...
