“Don’t trust everything you read on the internet”. We should heed this warning if we don’t want to fall prey to fake news and online scammers! The internet comes with a plethora of advantages. It has made it easier for us to access information at any time and from almost anywhere. Sana Hussein, a 27-year-old …
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We’ve reported in the past how the daily deal darling Groupon has its roots in a charity fundraising platform. Now that Groupon is focused on good deals and not good causes, a few social entrepreneurs are taking the daily deal trend in a pro-social direction. Meet Philanthroper. The new “deal” site launched yesterday to “make doing good …
In February, ICP Executive Director Susan Stroud traveled to the UK to participate in a conference entitled “Democracy and the Power of the Individual”, organized by the Ditchley Foundation. The conference brought together academics and practitioners from around the globe to discuss the “relationship between democratic governments and their citizens in the age of the internet …
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The pitfalls identified in New Zealand’s general election on 26 November go to show that political parties need to get their head around social media, and fast, reports Commonwealth Correspondent Eva Maria, 21. Media coverage of the recent New Zealand elections was described by many as uneventful. The country was buzzing, as National and Labour …
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The pitfalls identified in New Zealand’s general election on 26 November go to show that political parties need to get their head around social media, and fast, reports Commonwealth Correspondent Eva Maria, 21. Media coverage of the recent New Zealand elections was described by many as uneventful. The country was buzzing, as National and Labour …
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In a few short years the Internet has made its way into everything from news to shopping, writes Janine Wan, 15, a Correspondent based in Melbourne, Australia, and with that has changed social interaction and entertainment. The first website I ever went onto was Club Penguin. Even at a young age I thought it was …
The internet provides vast access to information, but as Rashaun Watson, 22, a Correspondent from Portmore in Jamaica writes, information can allow citizens to hold governments accountable. It is without a doubt that we live in world where it is easy to access a vast amount of information, especially with the use of modern technologies. …
The prospect of free internet access is an attractive one, but Timi Olagunju, 30, a Commonwealth Correspondent from Lagos in Nigeria, cautions there may be a hidden price in the details of the deal. Recently, I was reading a book ‘Predictably Irrational’ by one of my favourite Professors of behavioural psychology in Stanford University, Professor Dan Ariely, …
The internet has come to stay, writes Emmanuel Olutokun, 23, a Commonwealth Correspondent from Lagos in Nigeria, but many areas of the world still face significant hurdles to access. He looks at some of the problems and solutions. In a rapid and fast-changing world, it is quite safe to say that there still remain portions of …