TED Talks
Neil Gershenfeld: Unleash your creativity in a Fab Lab
MIT professor Neil Gershenfeld talks about his Fab Lab -- a low-cost lab that lets people build things they need using digital and analog tools. It's a simple idea with powerful results.
TED Talks
TED: Let's bridge the digital divide! | Aleph Molinari
Five billion people can't use the internet. Aleph Molinari empowers digitally excluded people, by giving them access to computers and sharing the know-how to use them.
TED Talks
TED: Forget Wi-Fi. Meet the new Li-Fi Internet | Harald Haas
What if we could use existing technologies to provide Internet access to the more than 4 billion people living in places where the infrastructure can't support it? using off-the-shelf LeDs and solar cells, Harald Haas and his team have...
TED Talks
Financial inclusion, the digital divide and other thoughts on the future of money | Ajay Banga
Roughly two billion people worldwide don't have access to banks or financial services like credit, insurance and investment -- or even a way to formally prove their identity. How do we bridge this divide? Mastercard CEO Ajay Banga sits...
TED Talks
TED: You deserve the right to repair your stuff | Gay Gordon-Byrne
A self-declared "repair geek," Gay Gordon-Byrne is a driving force behind the right-to-repair movement, which aims to empower people to fix their stuff. She describes how the movement is gaining legislative momentum and breaks down how...
Curated Video
Bridging the Global Digital Divide: Challenges and Progress
The video highlights the global disparity in Internet access between rich and poor countries, with Luxembourg having more access than all of Africa. The UN has set a goal to connect all villages to the Internet by 2015, sparking debates...
The Wall Street Journal
Kimberly Bryant and Jessica Rosenworcel on The Digital Divide
At WSJ Tech Live, Kimberly Bryant and Jessica Rosenworcel discuss how the government and privacy sector should work to bridge the digital divide.
Curated Video
Mass Media: Conflict
The stories we share as a society come packaged inside our movies, video games, novels, and other media. These stories provide a shared experience, and bring different groups together. This is a positive effect of mass media, but not all...
The Wall Street Journal
Khan Academy CEO: Infrastructure Is Key to Closing the Digital Divide
The pandemic showed us that technology was an educational lifeline to students--but it also reinforced the digital divide and widened the advantage gap between the rich and poor. Sal Khan shares where investments and partnerships can...
Hip Hughes History
What's a Flipped Classroom?
An introduction to flipped learning. What is a flipped classroom? Why do teachers flip? Follow me on twitter @hiphughes for more teaching insights.
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Rob Mancabelli - The New Digital Divide
Rob Mancabelli is a speaker and author in the field of educational technology. He’s the co–author of the book Personal Learning Networks: Using the Power of Connections to Transform Education, a medal winner for Education Book of the...
The Recount
Can Telehealth Close the Mental Healthcare Gap?
Mental healthcare access has long been an issue in the U.S., especially in rural areas, where there’s an estimated 1 psychiatrist for every 30,000 residents. The Recount takes a look at telehealth use during the Covid-19 pandemic and...
Curated Video
Despite Billions in Public Funding, Rural Broadband Still Lags
Newsy investigation finds missed deadlines, flawed FCC maps, lack of oversight keeps rural U.S. on wrong side of digital divide.
Curated Video
Bernie Sanders Unveils $150 Billion 'Internet For All' Plan
The proposal aims to improve broadband access for people across the U.S., especially those living in rural or tribal areas.
Bloomberg
Reliance Industries Chairman Ambani on Post-Pandemic World
Jun.21 -- Mukesh Ambani, Chairman and Managing Director, Reliance Industries, shares his vision for a post-pandemic world with Haslinda Amin, Anchor, Bloomberg Television at the Qatar Economic Forum, powered by Bloomberg.
Curated Video
Summit on problems of standardising internet usage
AP Television
1. Exhibition hall
2. Two men in Indian Pavillion
3. Close up of woman's hands typing
4. Woman using a lap top computer
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dayanidhi Maran, Indian Minister of Communications and Information...
Bloomberg
Melody's Jaffrey Says Data Consumption to Rise 10X
Oct.30 -- Melody Investment Advisors co-founder and Managing Partner Omar Jaffrey discusses the telecommunications infrastructure investment needed for 5G technology with Bloomberg's Ed Hammond on "Bloomberg Markets: The Close."
Curated Video
Focus on providing internet to developing countries
1. Various people standing in conference hall lobby
2. Wide interior conference hall
3. Camera
4. SOUNDBITE (French) Abdoulaye Wade, Senegalese President
"I think that we must define a space, if that is going to be the United States,...
Curated Video
Using data entry to type way out of poverty
AP Television
Phum Toeknam, Kandal Province, Cambodia - 8 February, 2013
1. Wide of ricefield in Phum Toeknam during sunrise
2. Close-up of sunrise
3. Wide of villagers and children at Phum Toeknam
4. Wide of Vuthy Im washing plates at...
Curated Video
Wireless Carriers To Extend Breaks to Tardy Customers Through June
U.S. wireless carriers will continue to temporarily suspend cancellations, late fees and data caps for customers affected by the coronavirus outbreak.
Bloomberg
FCC Chairman 5G Consumer Benefit Will Be 'Massive'
Apr.12 -- FCC Chairman Ajiit Pai discusses the commission's plans to boost 5G service by auctioning the broadest set of airwaves yet and devote more than $20 billion to improve mobile connections in rural areas. He speaks with...
Curated Video
HONG KONG: TELECOMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY GATHERING
Eng/Jap/Nat
Hong Kong this week hosts Asia's largest-ever gathering of the telecommunications industry.
More than 30 countries and hundreds of companies are represented at the event, which has been organised by the International...
Curated Video
SINGAPORE: ASEAN SUMMIT UPDATE 2
Mandarin/Nat
Leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have taken part in an informal summit meeting in Singapore on Friday to discuss future initiatives in the region.
The delegates have signed a free-trade pact...
Curated Video
$100 laptop unveiled at Tunis conference
SOURCE: AP Television News
Tunis, Tunisia - 17 November 2005/File
1. Close up of new "$100 laptop"
2. Close up of handle used to crank laptop
3. Wide of laptop on stand
4. Close up of Professor Nicholas Negroponte holding laptop
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