Are you worried that you’ve given out too much information or agreed to a few too many terms and conditions? In this explainer, four digital experts unpack everything from consent to digital detoxes, and the fundamental question of who owns your data.
As sensors, data analytics, blockchain and other innovations shape business strategy and reward corporate responsibility, the result will be positive change that helps both business and nature prosper.
An unprecedented number of women, particularly millennial women, are joining the workforce of the Muslim world, in a movement where economics appears to trump culture.
Despite huge global investment in renewables, our reliance on fossil fuels still refuses to budge. Could hydrogen - plentiful and non-polluting - be the answer?
Our oceans are in decline, and human activity is to blame. To reverse this trend, we must move with purposeful steps. Here are five that could be taken immediately.
It’s not humans per se who are causing our ecological crisis. It’s humans who live in societies that see material consumption as a paramount virtue, and who insist that their economies deliver more of it each year.
For companies like TerraCycle, even bottle-tops and flip-flops are destined for a useful afterlife.
Also in this week's round-up of top stories: megatrends for the future of work, how to get the most out of digital investment and a bag that is so biodegradable, you can eat it.
This year's cohort are public sector pioneers, business leaders, social innovators, creative ambassadors and agents of the under-represented.
Many technologists believe that blockchain will be more transformational than the internet itself. But is GDPR standing in its way?
What does the biggest football competition in the world have in common with a data protection regulation? More than you think, and team collaboration plays a big role in both.
Africa's first waste-to-energy plant could transform the continent's cities. Here's how.
In a region facing geopolitical turmoil, a lack of jobs and a shift away from oil-based economies, small businesses are leading the way towards growth and reform.
From life expectancy to electricity use, new data paints a picture of two Koreas who may be neighbours but couldn't be further apart.
China is battling its huge environmental problems with a number of far-reaching green initiatives – and they're working.
Europe is booming, but here are the big three economic risks that could lie ahead.
The technology needed to address India's water pollution problem already exists. What is needed is intent and a commitment to use it.
"The evidence from behavioural science shows that childhood obesity is a normal response to abnormal environments."
The impact of climate change is gaining momentum much faster than expected, while the shift from fossil fuels to cleaner energy is slow. Substantial acceleration in sustainable energy inn...
China has far and away the world's largest renewable energy capacity. It has achieved this in part though state subsidies - but are these interventions starting to hinder growth? And if s...
The internet is now fundamental to technological advance, and without far greater online access around the world, hundreds of millions of people are going to miss out on wealth-generating...
What positive or negative trends are we seeing that serve as deciders in achieving the SDGs?
Ever-growing mountains of data are starting to dictate whether employers hire and fire workers. Laying down key data-use principles is vital for putting the human back into human resources.
Blockchain is an innovative solution, but it is not the solution to all problems.
Artificial Intelligence is now capable of performing tasks that have historically required human ingenuity. But these advances also put AI on a collision course with numerous aspects of p...
Submissive female robots, servile voice assistants - does AI need a feminist revolution?
As more people question the political, security and environmental implications of blockchain and digital currency, its future may depend on a new wave of projects designed to make a posit...
