The Good Things Foundation supports people in the UK with overcoming three critical barriers to digital participation: access, skills, and support. The foundation provides wrap-around support and online courses that cover a range of skills such as how to switch on a device, connect to a network, make an appointment with a doctor, make an online video call and avoid online scams.
The research shows that supporting individuals in becoming digitally included not only helps bridge the existing digital divide but also has broader impacts such as:

Vous trouverez ci-dessus la conférence « Sovereignty, Empire and the Birth of Global Economic Governance » du Pr Jamie Martin (Harvard University) dans le cadre du cycle de conférences 2023-2024 « Origins and Structures of Global Economic Governance »

Biographie du conférencier

Controversial, daunting, and disconcerting for journalists: this is the essence of the proposed media law in Lebanon under consideration in parliamentary committees. Thirteen years after the initial draft formulated by the Maharat Foundation—a non-governmental organization dedicated to matters of freedom of opinion and expression—alongside MP Ghassan Moukheiber, the law looks bad for journalism in Lebanon.

So kompliziert ihr Name ist, so wichtig sind sie für den menschlichen Organismus im Kampf gegen Krankheitserreger und Krebs: Vγ9Vδ2-T-Zellen sind Teil des Immunsystems und bekämpfen als Untergruppe der weißen Blutkörperchen Tumorzellen und mit Krankheitserregern infizierte Zellen. Ihre potenziellen Opfer erkennen sie an deren veränderten Zellstoffwechsel.

קרן ויקימדיה מביעה את דאגתה העמוקה ממקרי ניתוק האינטרנט הנמשכים ברצועת עזה, הפוגעים באופן ישיר ביכולתם של אנשים לקבל ולשתף מידע מוויקיפדיה וממיזמי ויקימדיה אחרים. בתור המלכ”ר המארח את מיזמי ויקימדיה, הקרן מאמינה שמקרי הניתוק האלה מאיימים על משימתנו לשתף ידע ברחבי העולם ולהגן על הגישה לידע כאחת מזכויות האדם.

Amid the evolving digital landscape, where trust has become both a concern and a necessity, Amazon Web Services (AWS) stands out as a pivotal force bolstering economic progress and societal trust in emerging technologies across various regions. A look at Israel’s digital economy illustrates this transformation, with AWS cloud solutions not only encouraging economic growth but also bridging divides between digital natives and traditional enterprises1.

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Auf seiner Sitzung am 4. Dezember 2023 hat der Universitätsrat der Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU) seine bisherige Vorsitzende, Prof. Dr. Margret Wintermantel, in ihrem Amt bestätigt. Wintermantel hatte das Amt im Juni 2021 übernommen, nachdem ihr Vorgänger, Prof. Dr. Helmut Schwarz, zum 1. April 2021 aus dem Universitätsrat ausgeschieden war. Wintermantels zweite Amtszeit beginnt am 1. April 2024 an.

Global Counsel’s surveys found public awareness of generative AI to be strikingly high for a novel technology, with around 9 in 10 in the UK, US and Germany claiming to have heard of it. This awareness is largely due to media coverage of dramatic forecasts of its risks, as familiarity was still nascent, with older adults were much less likely to have used the technology (14% of German adults aged 55+ having used ChatGPT compared to 57% of 18-24s). Also there were significant levels of misunderstanding about its functionality and a conflation with other technologies.

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A “function” is a sequence of programming instructions that makes a calculation based on data provided. Internet users most commonly encounter functions when entering queries on search engines, such as the time difference between two cities, the distance between two locations, or the volume of an object. Functions operate behind-the-scenes to produce answers to these queries. For the first time, Wikifunctions will provide a library of functions that everyone, everywhere can access and contribute to. 

People around the world have a lot of questions. And when they’re looking for answers, they turn to Wikipedia. English Wikipedia received about 92 billion views this year alone, according to data from the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia.

The most-viewed Wikipedia articles of 2023 tell the story of you and society at large seeking out knowledge about our ever-changing world from the world’s largest encyclopedia.