For most of us, Google is now synonymous with searching for information. What it is trying to become more known for though is the social side of the web, and with its still relatively new Google+ starting to be marketed up the wazoo, you had to think it was just a matter of time before [...]
24 Nov
Editing an online encyclopedia may not sound glamorous, but for Liam Wyatt, Wikimedia’s GLAM fellow (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museum), it certainly is, and it’s about far more than glamour. The world’s online encyclopedia, Wikipedia, is about making human knowledge freely available to everyone in their own language, and Liam believes cultural institutions should play [...]
14 Nov
“Almost every time we go online, using our computers or mobile devices, each of us produces data in some form. This data may contain only oblique information about who we are and what we are doing, but when enough of it is aggregated, facts about us which we believed were private has the potential to [...]
01 Nov
Educators from around the world have flocked to Doha for the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE), an initiative of Qatar Foundation, which starts today. Over the three-day Summit, participants will discuss the global challenges and opportunities in education. One of the topics that will certainly be at the center of many discussions is Open [...]
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