Explore Challenges
- Countryside in Crisis?
- The Energy Water Food Stress Nexus
- Unsustainable Fishing
- Keeping pace with a digital revolution
- 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 to 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
Digital Technology
Lord Paul Boateng Former High Commissioner to South Africa
"Through necessity, Africans are adapting and developing new technology in inventive and intuitive ways"
Digital technology in Africa / Focus / Lord Paul Boateng Former High Commissioner to South Africa
Panel biographies
Our panel - Nicholas Negroponte, Erik Hersman, Herman Chinery-Hesse and Rory Cellan-Jones
Digital technology in Africa / Focus / Panel biographies
ForgetMeNot Africa - Jeremy George
Software that allows even the most basic mobile phones to email, message and interact.
Digital technology in Africa / Focus / ForgetMeNot Africa - Jeremy George
INTERVIEW: Tom Chatfield
The author and tech commentator on technology's effect on society.
Keeping pace with a digital revolution / Focus / INTERVIEW: Tom Chatfield