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Nearly 3.2 billion people are now online, which comes to about 43.4 per cent of the world population, but the number still falls significantly short of reaching the anticipated goal of 60 per cent by 2020. The ramifications...

Just 62 individual billionaires around the world have more wealth than 3.6 billion people combined, according to a latest report by an international charity which says ending the global web of tax havens is the key...

The impact of information technologies on everyday human activity has been so sweeping that for majority of populations in the digitally connected world life is viewed in two broad ways: online and offline. Increasingly, productivity, GDP...

The year 2015 has been one of the worst in recent history for women and children.There seems to be no end to their travails in conflict-ridden regions and insurgency-hit countries. Women, belonging to both majority and...

Photo showing 2007 flooding across South Asia is by Anameofmyveryown under creativecommons license via Wikimedia Commons What is keeping South Asia mired in a morass of poverty? Corruption, conflicts, religious extremism, flawed governance, environmental degradation, water issues,...

The Internet and communication technologies have been a major force of empowerment for women in the last two decades. But will the world wide web help women have access to equal opportunity, particularly in developing countries,...

“When sorrows come,” groaned Claudius in Hamlet, “they come not single spies, but in battalions.” Our world knows what he meant. Consider: There is the imminent threat of climate change—and we can see its devastating impact...

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