by Sahar Albaharna There has been a steady increase over recent years in the number of online fashion retailers such as Asos, Yoox, Shopcade, BlueFly, Belle & Clive and many more. The emergence of such companies has influenced the traditional bricks and mortar fashion retailers including the bigger department stores such…
by: Alicia Asin, CEO and co-founder, Libelium In the future, our cities will be full of sensors and generating tons of data to help us find a parking spot, save water in irrigation, monitor pollution levels and make cities more efficient, urban resilient and livable. But how much data will this…
The Future of Education: How Digital Disruption is Coming to a School or University Near You
November 8, 2015By: Vicki MacLeod, GTWN Secretary-General and Senior Advisor, Innovation Culture, Telstra Since electrification, the story of the twentieth century has been the race between education and technology (Goldin and Katz, Harvard University, 2010.)…
It may not have been planned that way, but the GTWN was delighted to notice that the 2014 Sir Arthur Clarke Award Ceremony, hosted at The Royal Aeronautical Society in London, UK, on Wednesday 8th October 2014 had a healthy recognition of both men and women who have contributed so…
Sir Arthur C. Clarke, science fiction author best known for 2001: A Space Odyssey, described the inherent folly of predicting the future in a 1964 BBC documentary, but then went on to do exactly that – with remarkable, unnerving accuracy. He talked about how the world would be in fifty…
Pi for Learning (Pi4L) is a joint initiative between the International Education Association (IEA) and UNICEF Lebanon designed to provide students in Lebanon the opportunity to learn computer coding and related technologies.…
Update : As we went to press, we received the news that Mishaal Aerospac had successfully competed its first Static Test: MISHAAL Aerospace’s M-SV Propulsion System Successfully Completes its First Static Test
August 21, 2014Miami, Florida, August, 2014 MISHAAL Aerospace Corporation, a woman-owned launch vehicle provider, is pleased to announce that its M-SV propulsion system successfully completed its first static test on August 11, 2014. The success of this test validates and demonstrates MISHAAL Aerospace’s hybrid rocket propulsion system. It is a milestone achievement…
In this article, several experts in the payments industry talk about the Cashless Journey Study. The Cashless Journey Study was developed to track nations’ progress towards more cashless economies. It offers insights into how some nations have made the journey from cash to cashless, and how other nations can continue their…
By Ingrid Silver, Partner at Dentons and President for Europe of the GTWN. Ingrid highlights the importance of focusing on the present in this fast moving mobile century and making use of the services available to make the most of this age in all sectors such as health and education.…
By: Weerada Sucharitkul, Co-Founder, FilmDoo Do you enjoy watching great films? Films that make a difference, inspire you and which you can’t wait to share with others? At FilmDoo, we believe there are thousands of interesting and diverse films being created all around the world – films that few people…
Business benefits abound for companies that include women and men as executives, employees, and entrepreneurs in their value chains. The convincing case for gender inclusion was made by H.E. Sheikh Abdullah al Thani, Chairman of Ooredoo Group; Cherie Blair, founder of the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women; and Beth Comstock,…
Education Entrepreneur Jermaine Hagan and Technology Marketing Director Millie Zah launched RevisionApp in late 2011. It has since built a user base of more than 1,200,000.…
The Kacific project is a new broadband satellite service specifically designed to deliver high-speed, affordable internet to the enterprises, agencies and remote communities in the Pacific islands, Eastern Indonesia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea (www.kacific.com).…
