Technology plays an important role in journalism. It enables us to witness, hear and live worldwide events between countries without being there, or putting our lives at risk. As recent events in this region have shown us, journalists play a crucial role in society. They are the impartial witnesses to war, up-risings, corruption and [...]
30 Nov
Ask yourself what you thought the term “privacy” meant three years back and your answer probably would have been “fighting spam!”. Now, ask yourself that question once again and your answer most likely will be: Facebook! Everything’s changed. And privacy will keep changing just as the way we access and use data is. ictQATAR recently [...]
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 [...]
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