Digital Equity

Breakthrough or bust? Tech’s two-edged sword cuts both ways

By Gavin Allen，Executive Editor-in-Chief

Digital bridge or digital wedge?

Tech can either bring people together or widen the gap between them, says world-renowned economist Jeffrey Sachs.

Don’t be averse to the Metaverse

When it comes to the world’s biggest digital twin, the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Dr. Christina Yan Zhang, CEO of the Metaverse Institute, explains.

“Twenty years of almost nothing going wrong”: What the poor need, in order to get rich

Professor Julian May has been researching the dynamics of poverty for 40 years.

Thriving with tech

Doreen Bogdan-Martin, Secretary-General, ITU

Tech meets tourism: how digital helps rural economies flourish

After building out the digital infrastructure in its lush countryside, Yunnan Province has become a magnet for visitors

Access, energy, literacy: overcoming the three stumbling blocks to connectivity

Telecoms entrepreneur and author Vijaya Kumar Ivaturi (IVK for short) is co-founder and CTO of Crayon Data, a big data and AI start-up based in Singapore.

Four starts-ups and a VC

Using ICT for development pays big dividends in India, Africa

“Three billion people feels like a market to me”

Paul Finnis is Founder of the Digital Poverty Alliance, CEO of the Learning Foundation, and a Strategic Advisor at Unconnected.org.

Towards a new social contract for the digital economy

Bjorn-Soren Gigler, an Adjunct Professor for Political Economy at Georgetown University

“Underconnected:” an expert explains why mobile is not enough

Bianca Reisdorf is Associate Professor, Dept. of Communication at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Digital poverty is a dead weight on society

Unfortunately, few policymakers understand this, says Jim Knight, Chairman of CENTURY Tech, an EdTech organization.

Show me the money

African economies can grow by trading more with each other. One company is making it easier for them.

To solve extreme poverty, give people money

Otaviano Canuto, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution

Why is the internet so stubbornly expensive?

Recent research provides some answers, explains Andrew Williamson, Economic Adviser at Huawei Technologies

They not old, they’re “digital immigrants”

Frank Leyhausen is CEO of Reifegrad4, an organization that helps to test the demographic resilience of concepts and new business ideas.

Digital inclusion drives sustainable development

Tariq Al Barwani – Founder, Knowledge Oman

Power to the Podcast

African podcasts have gone mainstream. But they would benefit from lower data costs, more content, and language localization

ICT and public services: critical issues for addressing the digital divides

Marcos Fernández-Gutiérrez, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Cantabria, Spain

Studies show more tech means better life quality

Eleni Laitsou and Apostolos Xenakis take a scholarly look at digital development and its impact on human well-being.

From Pakistan to Brazil, everyone needs access

Whether in the rain forest or the desert, life’s just better when you’re connected