A year without internet in Kashmir
Jammu and Kashmir have faced an unprecedented communication blockade, with no or slow internet for 12 months. We hear voices from the region on what the impact has been on life there, with insight fro...
11 Aug 202043min
Why India can’t work from home
India came last out of 42 countries in a recent study of remote-working readiness. Bhaskar Chakravorti, Dean of Global Business for The Fletcher School at Tufts University, explains what his research ...
4 Aug 202046min
Tracking the trolls
How can we distinguish the online posts written by real people from those coming out of professional bot-farms intent on influencing elections? New research from Princeton University in America uses m...
28 Jul 202042min
Covid 19: Mapping changing sentiment in tweets
Using machine learning, researchers analysed 30 million English language tweets from across the world to track the changing global sentiment as the Covid-19 pandemic spread. Lead author of the study, ...
21 Jul 202042min
Ethiopia’s continuing online censorship
The internet shutdown in Ethiopia has been in place for 2 weeks now. The Ethiopian Government cut internet connectivity following protests over the killing of singer and activist Hachalu Hundessa. Th...
14 Jul 202047min
Can we make the web a better space?
What is Web Science, and why does it matter? The internet is the most complex machine built by humans but it so much more than just the engineering behind it. The internet moves the data around, bu...
7 Jul 202043min
Exploring digital death
This week Digital Planet explores digital death and how the COVID-19 pandemic has forced us to update our death rituals and move most of our grieving online. We hear from a listener whose mother passe...
30 Jun 202047min
Nigerian internet land rights costs fall
A major problem in laying internet cables in Nigeria is the phenomenal cost of right of way charges – these are local state imposed fees to broadband providers. Ekiti, one of Nigeria’s smallest state...
23 Jun 202050min
