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Digital power and democracy

We live in a society that revolves around data. The use of digital data is so all-pervasive, particularly (though not only) in the more industrially-advanced economies, that it has spawned a new ecosystem: the uninterrupted flow of digital…

News today: an existential challenge

The days of a vertical hierarchy in news media are over, swept aside by an exciting but unquestionably chaotic breed of horizontal peer-to-peer communications – a form of journalism by smartphone where the rules governing traditional news…

The vicious circle trapping the Arab world

Planting tomato seeds will likely lead to harvesting tomatoes. To expect the seeds to yield anything else is foolish. The policies implemented by many Arab states are sowing the seeds of terrorism. Having exerted no effort in scattering the…