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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
Government
Government opens data to public
An ambitious new website that will open up government data to the public will launch in beta, or pilot, form in December. Data.gov.uk has been developed by Sir Tim Berners Lee, founder of the web, and Professor Nigel Shadbolt at the University of Southampton.
Digital Divide in the UK? / In The News / Government opens data to public
Digital Divide in the UK?
December 2009
Martha Lane Fox, government's Digital Inclusion Champion, author and broadcaster Professor Tanya Byron and BBC Technology Correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones discuss the digital divide in Britain and the risks and benefits of a digital society.
Challenges / Digital Divide in the UK?
Speaker biographies
Our panel including Frank Field MP, John Bird, Julia Unwin and Mark Easton
Persistent poverty in Britain / Focus / Speaker biographies
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
Education in Britain
An 60 second guide to education in Britain
Educating for tomorrow / 60 Seconds / Education in Britain