Are phones still phones? [Guest blog]
A twenty-first-century behavioural culture shock often experienced is that of the difference in screening phone calls as opposed to picking up the phone, regardless...
Social Media Helps Diplomats Engage — Online and Off
By Molly McCluskey
When Ambassador Ritva Koukku-Ronde of Finland finally took the dive into Twitter in December 2012, she was in the company of another...
Publishing Digital Service Assessments
The Digital by Default Service Standard comes into full force in April this year. We’ve been running assessments for a while now, and as...
[Today in PD] ICANN CEO Sets Off Explosion Of New Internet Names
ICANN CEO Fadi Chehade
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ICANN)
Starting next week, the Internet is going to look very different -- and ICANN Chief Executive Fadi Chehade is the one...
What is G-Cloud?
Better, Faster, Cheaper UK Government Procurement through G-Cloud
Cloud First is the United Kingdom government’s initiative to achieve cross-government economies of scale in its procurement...
What is Bitcoin?
This video is a short animated introduction to Bitcoin, made possible with donations from the Bitcoin community.
We'd like to thank:
- Donators for the Bitcoin...
[Today in PD] How A Colombian Internet Address Became The Online Home For Startups
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In less than four years, more than 1.6 million individuals and businesses, mostly start-ups, have created a website with an...
Facebook introduces autoplay for videos
After testing the system for a while, Facebook has begun to introduce autoplay videos for mobile and desktop. Earlier in the week, most users on iPhone...
Use of social technologies has plateaued, says McKinsey
"While the percentage of companies adopting social technologies remains high, it has plateaued," says McKinsey in its "Organizing for change through social technologies" Global...