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Copenhagen internet infrastructure walk
This walking tour was designed by Aslak Ransby, Ingrid Burrington and Janet Gunter for the Internet Infrastructure Summit at Techfestival.
Henrik Chulu
Copenhagen-based writer and advisor with an artistic, critical and global outlook on life in a digital world. From a background in philosophy and geography and having toured Europe as a musician, he pursued a career supporting collective civic action
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The web was successful because it was simple
The early development of the world wide web was based on providing a basic public good for sharing knowledge. That was key to its success.
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Stop calling kids digital natives
Digital literacy is pointless without a digital upbringing to establish norms. Kids need adult guidance when learning to use technology.
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Art is the key that unlocks digital literacy
Artistic creativity is necessary for technology, not just for innovation in the marketplace but to realize its potential for participation.
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How do social media affect your mental health?
Do social media stress you out? Are you addicted to Facebook? We look into the science of how tech affects your emotional well-being.
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Technology stories should not be about the technologies
Behind all technology, there is a negotiation of power taking place. Writing about tech and ignoring the power is irresponsible journalism, says Ingrid Burrington.
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It takes more than a wind farm to clean up a data center
Switching data centers to renewable energy sources like wind and solar only blunts one part of the environmental impact of cloud computing.
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The future of food needs interfaces
Technology has had a giant impact on the global food system. Designing human interfaces can help advance the future of what and how we eat.
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"Give people the right to talk to a human"
We sat down with Denis 'Jaromil' Roio for a talk about, among other things, what software developers can learn from the world of agriculture.
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Let us end algorithmic discrimination
It is possible to regain human control over the decision-making power of predictive algorithms and end their discriminatory effects on underprivileged people.
Mozilla Internet Health Reports
Django Girls: Communities of code from Argentina to Zimbabwe
“What excites me the most is inspiring another woman to fall in love with programming,” says Anna Makarudze who organizes Django Girls workshops in Zimbabwe. “Just knowing that I am making a difference in somebody else’s life is really a great feeling. Through this, I meet so many women,
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Building a multilingual Internet
Typing and reading online in a non-English language with a non-Latin script is not always easy. Speakers of the Indic language Malayalam used to depend on buggy, badly rendering fonts to write on the Internet. But a dedicated decade-long effort has made typing and writing Malayalam on the Internet a