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
Technology
Dave Hassell, BECTA
Dave Hassel, Director of Content & Learning, Teaching and Inclusion, BECTA
Digital Divide in the UK? / Focus / Dave Hassell, BECTA
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
Audience questions 1-5
creative future for Africa, govn. contracts and the Arab Spring
Digital technology in Africa / Focus / Audience questions 1-5
Introduction by Rory Cellan-Jones
Introduction to the issue of digital technology in Africa by our chair
Digital technology in Africa / Focus / Introduction by Rory Cellan-Jones
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
Globalisation
An introduction to the process of globalisation.
Educating for tomorrow / Focus / Globalisation
INTERVIEW: Professor Alan Woodward
The disruptive nature of the internet and how it is changing our world.
Keeping pace with a digital revolution / Focus / INTERVIEW: Professor Alan Woodward
INTERVIEW: Dr Sue Black
Leader of the campaign to Save Bletchley Park, Founder of The GoTo Foundation & BCSWomen.
Keeping pace with a digital revolution / Focus / INTERVIEW: Dr Sue Black
INTERVIEW: Tom Chatfield
The author and tech commentator on technology's effect on society.
Keeping pace with a digital revolution / Focus / INTERVIEW: Tom Chatfield