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- 7 March 2012: Global health in the 21st Century
- Adapting to an urban future
- Educating for tomorrow
- Digital technology in Africa
- Persistent poverty in Britain
- Can the UK ever be sustainable?
- Plastic pollution in the oceans
- Natural disasters: how can we improve?
- Not In My Back Yard
- Digital Divide in the UK?
- Importing goods, exporting drought?
- Britain’s ageing population
- Engineering our climate
- The future shape of Capitalism
- Migration: skills and the job market
- Razing the Rainforest
- London under water
- Concreting the countryside
- Future of low carbon energy.
- Africa in the 21st Century
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Digital Divide in the UK? : Focus
Interview with Lord David Puttnam
Watch an interview with Lord David Puttnam, discussing the importance of the internet and IT skills.
16th February, 2010- more »
Martha Lane Fox
Read excepts of Martha Lane Fox's speech, discussing her role as Digital Champion, the importance of engagement and the ways the government are helping to get the 4 million most disadvantaged people in the UK online.
Tanya Byron
Read excepts of Professor Tanya Byron's speech, discussing the ways younger people use the internet and understanding the risks and benefits involved. Explaining the digital divide between children and parents.
Professor Michael Hulme discusses the internet and the digital divide in the UK
Professor Michael Hulme, Director of the Social Futures Observatory, discusses the internet and the digital divide in the UK
- 16th November, 2009
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Dave Hassell, BECTA
Dave Hassel, Director of Content & Learning, Teaching and Inclusion, BECTA
- 21st October, 2009
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Meet the Panel - Digital divide in the UK
Read the biographies of our expert panel discussing the threat of a growing digital divide in the UK, including Martha Lane Fox, Professor Tanya Byron and Rory Cellan-Jones.
- 8th October, 2009
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