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World Citizenship and Peace
May 24th, 2017 
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Tags: Culture, Economy, education, environment, equality, ethnicity, Florence Joseph, Human Rights, Opinion, peace, Politics, religion, Society, technology, world citizenship 
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May 19th, 2017 Administrator AFP photo By Ricardo Swire The evolution of maritime trafficking expertise proves drug traffickers have both motive and means to develop new strategies that ensure delivery of their illicit cargo. Law enforcement agencies’ counter-narcotics sections challenge by placing state-of-the-art equipment and utilizing innovative interdiction methods, underworld characters manipulating legally available technology.
Posted in OPINION Tags: crime, drug trafficking, DTO, GPS, Ricardo Swire, smuggling, technology No Comments »Invisible Vulnerability Exposé
May 18th, 2017 Administrator AFP photo By Ricardo Swire On Friday May 12, 2017 cyber-criminals issued a worldwide attention grabbing reminder of internal security’s invisible vulnerability. Hackers known as “The Shadow Brokers” used stolen US National Security Agency (NSA) “cyber-weapons” to launch the “Perfect Storm” in computer environments. Kaspersky Lab, the Russian security company that tracked damages, noted […]
Posted in OPINION Tags: crime, cyberattack, Eternal Blue, hackers, Internet, NHS, NSA, Ransomware, Ricardo Swire, security, technology, The Shadow Brokers No Comments »Act or be Hacked: A Leading Expert’s Proactive Strategies to Prevent Cyberattacks
May 15th, 2017 Administrator By Cynthia M. Lardner Cyber Security is always too much – too much money and too much time – until it just isn’t enough. Consider Friday’s news where a ransomware infection infiltrated organizations in 99 countries, including China and Russia. This should be enough to garner everyone’s attention about implementing simple rules for managing personal […]
Local sustainability of IP-centered industries
May 11th, 2017 Administrator By Alève Mine Let us investigate the implementability and implications of the pledge: “I’ll structure my ventures so as to keep local IP’s and local resources’ returns local.”
Risks in AI
January 19th, 2017 Administrator Olga Nikonova By Alève Mine Here are some of the possible risks of AI, and, in some cases, what can be done to prevent, or what trade-off prevention requires:
Mapping Underworld Finances
December 30th, 2016 Administrator By Ricardo Swire Cash moves across the world in a matter of seconds, with just one touch of a computer’s keyboard. Technology allows “dirty money” to disappear and with it any chance of confiscation.
Feint of Technology
December 19th, 2016 Administrator Jayanta Dey/Reuters By Ananya S Guha I am not an economist so I will not be able to critique the effects of demonetisation in India. Learned pundits including economists have given and are continuing to give their views.
Posted in OPINION Tags: Ananya S Guha, cash, cashless society, demonetisation, Economy, Finance, India, Modi, Rupee, Society, technology No Comments »Power of the Media in this Modern World
December 13th, 2016 Administrator By Muhammad Shoaib Khan The power of the media cannot be negated in the modern world. This power can be utilized for development in every aspect of life. Developed countries do not need to do so because they have already achieved their objectives with the help of media. However, developing countries such as Pakistan still […]
Posted in OPINION Tags: Communication, Control, freedom of expression, Media, Muhammad Shoaib Khan, social media, Society, soft power, technology No Comments »Marketing in the post-globalisation era!
December 8th, 2016 Administrator By Vickie Zisman Personal confession – I earn my bread (and cat food) from marketing. That’s what I do for a living, hence will try not to saw off the branch am sitting on. Still need the money, you know…We, the hoi polloi, keep on running on our hamster wheels..Trump or not…(sobbing gently on the go?).
Posted in OPINION Tags: Business, Economy, globalisation, Marketing, Silicon Valley, technology, Trump, Vickie Zisman No Comments »Control money and you control the individual
November 23rd, 2016 Administrator By Hazel Speed Having listened to BBC Radio 4 regarding Sweden’s Central Bank and its plans to consider digital banking, thereby eventually abolishing cash completely, I think this will be the most worrying political sea-change, just when we thought we had seen it all in the last couple of years with the UK Referendum (Brexit) […]
Posted in OPINION Tags: BBC Radio 4, cash, cashless society, Central Bank Sweden, Control, digitial currency, Economy, Finance, Hazel Speed, Money, Riksbank, technology 1 Comment »Fake news – a menace to society
November 18th, 2016 Administrator Reuters photo By Joe Khamisi Over the past two decades social media has become one of the most powerful sources of information. It facilitates free and seamless inter and cross-border communication and enables information to travel fast and wide. It also builds and destroys individuals and institutions, and promotes or demotes merchandise in a […]
Why does society exclude the elderly?
November 10th, 2016 Administrator Keith Brofsky By Hazel Speed The study claiming that the internet will isolate 700,000 elderly people by 2030 reveals some stunning information, an indictment against those who perpetuate the neglect of the elderly by excluding them from society, the one culprit being the internet!
Posted in OPINION Tags: ageism, elderly, elderly excluded, Friends of the Elderly, Hazel Speed, Internet, Media, Society, technology No Comments »Artificial Intelligence: Real, Surreal and Here to Stay
September 6th, 2016 Administrator By Cynthia M. Lardner You awake one morning to find your brain has another lobe functioning. Invisible, this auxiliary lobe answers your questions with information beyond the realm of your own memory, suggests plausible courses of action, and asks questions that help bring out relevant facts. You quickly come to rely on the new […]
Posted in OPINION Tags: AI, Artificial Intelligence, Cynthia Lardner, DARPA, Department of Defense (DoD), science, Stephen Hawking, technology No Comments »Economic diversification, job skills can help accelerate growth in Bangladesh – ADB
September 2nd, 2016 Administrator Munir Uz Zaman/AFP By Sheuli Akter Improved infrastructure and a more diversified economy can help Bangladesh increase economic growth, create meaningful jobs, and enhance the country’s structural transformation as a thriving middle-income economy, say two new Asian Development Bank (ADB) reports.
Posted in OPINION Tags: Asian Development Bank (ADB), Bangladesh, Economy, employment, Finance, fuel, gas, growth, industry, job skills, Oil, Poverty, Power, ready made garment industry, RMG, Sheuli Akter, technology No Comments »GPs and appointment times
September 1st, 2016 Administrator McGovern By Hazel Speed Consider this scenario… Our bodies, as yet, are not aware they must only become unwell Monday to Friday 9-5 or even more restricted hours and give us written on line notice 5 weeks ahead of the symptom(s) if there is a hope of getting an appointment before one of us […]
Posted in OPINION Tags: appointment, doctor, GP, Hazel Speed, Health, NHS, technology, waiting times No Comments »A gap in the market for landlines and telephone service providers
August 31st, 2016 Administrator PA photo By Hazel Speed It always amazes me sometimes that certain opportunities are glaringly obvious but the major manufacturers within one industry or another are that busy chasing the younger consumer market in order to urge them to buy cutting edge technology that they do not realise the part or whole funding for […]
Photography, who sees what…cascading short thoughts
August 24th, 2016 Administrator Bayo Omoboriowo By Fatimah Bakare-Dickson Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever… it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything – Aaron Siskind In marking the world photography day, which was marked a few days ago, I decided not […]
Posted in ART/PHOTOGRAPHY Tags: Aaron Siskind, art, camera, Cinema, Fatimah Bakare-Dickson, Film, journalism, Nigeria, Photography, selfie, sport, technology, wildlife, world photography day No Comments »Virtual Reality
August 24th, 2016 Administrator Howard Rose By Hazel Speed In recent weeks, news is emerging which tells us that the realm of Virtual Reality is now a tool which can be used to ease suffering.
Posted in OPINION Tags: Betty Eadie, burn victims, David Kossoff, Hazel Speed, healing, technology, Virtual Reality No Comments »Sustainable energy for all: Overcoming challenges in energy for under-developed economies
August 12th, 2016 Administrator By Anant Mishra Introduction Almost 30 years ago, the concept of sustainable energy was still in its infancy, unexplored, undiscussed and relatively without a use. In other words, the concept of renewable energy received no attention from the political leaders or the policy makers then.
Posted in OPINION Tags: Anant Mishra, Ban Ki-moon, Climate Change, Economy, Energy, environment, Goal 7, green energy, industry, International Energy Agency, Kyoto Protocol, Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), OECD, Politics, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Sustainable Energy, technology, UN, under developed economies, UNFCCC No Comments »Ethics in AI
August 2nd, 2016 Administrator Alicia Vikander / UPI By Alève Mine It is about time I’d write this. The need was sparked by an article I read about ethics in artificial intelligence last December. It forwarded a professor’s suggestion that we should have AI learn our ethics. My throat jumped into my brain, screaming soundless and holding itself […]
Posted in OPINION Tags: AI, Alève Mine, Artificial Intelligence, Asimov, behaviour, belief, conscious, emotion, Ethics, human, philosophy, Sci-Fi, self, sentient, subconcious, technology, The Premise, Thought No Comments »Will India Mar China? – The Indian Economy in Modi’s Time – Part Four
July 28th, 2016 Administrator By Ratnesh Dwivedi Christine Lagarde of the International Monetary Fund is one of many who believes that under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India has improved rapidly and is on the right track. International recognition is one aspect but what are the challenges in India becoming a powerhouse while China sees a recession. […]
Will India Mar China? – The Indian Economy in Modi’s Time – Part One
July 25th, 2016 Administrator Punit Paranjpe/AFP By Ratnesh Dwivedi Christine Lagarde of the International Monetary Fund is one of many who believes that under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India has improved rapidly and is on the right track. International recognition is one aspect but what are the challenges in India becoming a powerhouse while China […]
Posted in INTERVIEWS, OPINION Tags: 2G scam, Ambassador, BRICS, Business, China, Christine Lagarde, Digital India, Economy, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), freedom of expression, GDP, government, IMF, India, Indian Foreign Service, Internet, interview, Jaimini Bhagwati, Land Acquisition, Make in India, Narendra Modi, Oil, Politics, Ratnesh Dwivedi, SCO, Society, Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, technology, Tuck Magazine, Uday, United Kingdom No Comments »An old medium in the pocket of new media
June 9th, 2016 Administrator By Priyadarshini Kiran I still remember the day when I first met the father of Community Radio of India, Dr.R Sreedher, my Ph.D research guide, and heard about Internet Radio and its advanced new approach in the modern era. That was the year 2014 when in India, only one Internet Radio i-radio live was broadcast, but […]
On Failure and Success in the Internet era – the twisted marriage of modern perceptions
April 19th, 2016 Administrator By Vickie Zisman I have been reading Forbes and Fortune today and they are all with their different “lists”. Forbes – updating the rich (gender, age, trade etc..), Fortune – going for leadership and failures. Especially how the successful ones (who also happen to be rich) relate to failure.
Posted in OPINION Tags: Bezos, Bohr, Business, Economy, Edison, effort, embrace the failure, expectation, Failure, Forbes, Fortune, Humanity, internet era, Jack Ma, Kahneman, Perceptions, pressure, Roosevelt, Society, Stephen King, Success, technology, Tesla, Tuck Magazine, Vickie Zisman, Zuckerberg No Comments »Ayatollah Google
March 4th, 2016 Administrator By Ahmed Tharwat “The control of information is something the elite always do, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people,” explained American writer Tom Clancy.
Posted in OPINION Tags: Ahmed Tharwat, dependence, Egypt, Google, Information, Internet, Jesus phone, Power, religion, Search, technology No Comments »Fiction: Inferno Yekin
January 29th, 2016 Administrator By Benjamin Okochi
Posted in FICTION, POETRY / FICTION Tags: Benjamin Okochi, counter terrorism, Fiction, ICC, Inferno Yekin, Maiduguri, Nigeria, technology, Tuck Magazine No Comments »Bangladesh’s largest mobile company plans 10,000 3G base stations by June
January 6th, 2016 Administrator By Sheuli Akter Bangladesh’s largest mobile phone company Grameenphone Ltd. has announced that 100% of its existing 10,000 base stations across Bangladesh will support 3G services by June 2016.
Posted in OPINION Tags: 3G, Bangladesh, Business, Grameenphone Ltd, Investment, mobile phone, Sheuli Akter, technology No Comments »On The Clock: The Future of (Selfie) Journalism
February 10th, 2015 Administrator By Jedi Ramalapa I have been thinking about my chosen profession recently. For the past fourteen years in fact. Each day I have asked myself if this is something I want or wish to do for the rest of my life.
Posted in OPINION Tags: broadcast journalism, capturing video footage, court reporting, creative journalism, creative writing, desk top publishing, facebook, foreign languages, freelance journalism, hashtags, headlines, Human Rights, infographics, instagram, interviews, investigative journalism, jack of all trades but a master of none, Jedi Ramalapa, journalism, live blogs, live television reports, multimedia journalism, news and current affairs, news bulletin, online journalism, photo snacks, photojournalism, podcasts, Politics, radio hard copy, radio journalism, radio reporter, reportage, Selfie journalism, selfie stick, social media, South Africa, Soweto, storytelling, technology, television, The Bottom Line, the sound of a silent tear drop, tweeting news, twitter, two-gether, voice reports from the field, war correspondent No Comments »
