A Nelson's eye on digital biopiracy

Biodiversity meet puts off decision on benefit-sharing from digital gene sequences

Girls in rural India less likely to know how to use smartphones, computers: Survey

Boys more than twice as likely than girls to own their own smartphone, finds ASER 2023

What lurks beneath the Network

The digital is political

Technologies are not just agents of politics, there is politics in their design

Charles Kao Kuen: The man who paved way for development of Internet

Known as the ‘Godfather of Broadband’, Professor Kao is known for discovering fiber-optic communication

Generative AI is forcing people to rethink what it means to be authentic

Generative AI thrives on exploiting people’s reliance on categorical authenticity by producing material that looks like “the real …

How drone, mobile-based platform bridging health care gap in Africa  

Innovations are happening in the planet's remotest places hosting the poorest, and they aim to solve Africa’s biggest challenge of giving …

Why the world is worried about this new biotechnology

In the Convention on Biological Diversity, a moratorium on biotechnology, like genetically engineered mosquitoes, takes centre stage

No women on the Moon yet: Gender digital divide may worsen inequality, warns UN chief

‘Need to overhaul patriarchal structures perpetuating gender inequality, especially in the technology sector’

COVID-19: Access to devices a must for bridging the digital divide

Most conversations on digital divide revolve around network availability or supply-side factors, but absence of an Internet-enabled handset …