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The digital revolution: How the internet has revolutionised our lives

These days you don’t have to leave your home to be entertained and fed

Patriarchal African societies don’t just sideline women socially but also in terms of technology.

There is an urgent need for policies in order to bridge the digital gender divide

Technologies rapidly transform society, allowing for unprecedented advances in the human condition but women are often barred from the race

African innovation in technology can spark an economic boom

The continent’s tech must take centre stage and show the world what we have to offer

OPINION | Tokenising equity can revolutionise capital financing as the JSE falters

The bourse has never looked so vulnerable with many companies delisting and few new entries.

Empowered by VR headsets with facial recognition technology and VR haptic gloves, providers and patients will be able to interact virtually in a hyper-realistic manner, allowing them to feel like they are actually in the same room together. (Photo by Mark Rightmire/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images)

A healthcare revolution lurks in the metaverse

The metaverse’s democratising, inclusive and diversity-rich potential can equalise access to healthcare.

Benefits of technology: The AirQo team at Makerere University in Uganda uses artificial intelligence and sensors to monitor air quality

Investing in Africa’s digital transformation

The continent could reap rewards through digitisation and adopting new technologies

Internet shutdowns in Africa threaten democracy

Governments’ interruption of social media is censorship is a way to control the flow of information online and amounts to censorship

Zambia’s polls were closely contested despite widespread irregularities.

Stop Zambia’s digital squeeze

A proposed cyber law will muzzle Zambians and restrict the opposition ahead of the elections

(John McCann/M&G)

Inside Facebook’s big bet on Africa

New undersea cables will massively increase bandwidth to the continent

Faure Gnassingbe was seen as a malleable 38-year-old when the military installed him as president of Togo after the death of his strongman father in 2005.

Faure Gnassingbe: Togo leader treads in father’s steps

Spill out: Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg testifies before the US Senate judiciary and commerce committees on the protection of user data.

Web threatens democracy and must be regulated – without limits on freedom of speech

The political harms caused by large scale are critical issues as well, and ought to be considered in antitrust enforcement

An organisation says the devices reduce children’s ability to concentrate and learn effectively. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Cellphones the front line for gender equality

Access to cellphones is not an end in itself. Rather, it is a way to level the playing field not only through knowledge, but also through connection

Celebrate: East and West German citizens climbed the Berlin Wall at the Brandenburg Gate after the opening of the East German border was announced in Berlin on November 9 1989. (Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters)

The Berlin Wall fell 30 years ago, but new walls are going up everywhere

The Berlin Wall fell 30 years ago but today we have more borders and walls than ever

Iraq has more than 15 000 digital storefronts on Facebook and Instagram, said an IT professional familiar with the country’s digital economy. (Reuters)

Iraq cut the internet, and the economy suffered

Cyber security NGO NetBlocks estimated the total losses to the Iraqi economy at $951 million

Thinking ahead: Matthew Buckland on breaking digital ground

A pioneer’s path in the blogsphere

In the mid-2000s, Matthew Buckland took over the M&G’s website, and gave it a new lease on life. First, though, he had to fight an ownership battle

In order to remain in favour with the youth, companies must align themselves with their values, with consistent behaviour that results in sustainable change

Conscious social investment will gain consumer favour

The transparency provided by the internet means that every corporate action is judged

Bangladesh, which has more than 92 million internet users, has a history of blocking websites and key social media such as Facebook and YouTube. (Reuters)

Bangladesh slows internet ahead of election

At the end of an election campaign marked by deadly violence, internet services were slowed across the country with 3G and 4G services suspended

(Reuters)

A 50-minute work week is remotely possible

In all the offices I’ve worked, I sat in the so-called bullpen — a shared working space modelled on ­war-time sweat shops.

(Graphic: John McCann/M&G)

Internet of Things needs more cowbell

If you want to jump-start your industry, connect your appliances, vehicles and, yes, even your cattle

The world’s largest cocoa producer, Ivory Coast has emerged from a period of civil and political unrest in 2010-11 in which 3 000 people died to recorded annual economic growth rates of nearly 10 percent. (Issouf Sanogo/AFP)

No restraints on how state spies on internet use

Instead, the State Security Agency offers lame excuses for mass surveillance of South Africans