Tag: CIOGlobal
UK’s Digital Divide: A tremendous rise in energy bill
Across the world, energy systems are going digital. Electricity bills are more and more likely to pop up as an alert on your phone rather than popping through your letterbox. And many people now monitor their energy usage at home through smart meters that predict charges in real time.In the UK, nearly all energy companies…
Media Literacy: An important factor
If the world is going to stop deliberate or unintentional misinformation and its insidious effects, we need to radically expand and accelerate our counterattacks, particularly human-centered solutions focused on improving people’s media and information literacy. The deliberate or unintentional spread of misinformation, despite capturing widespread public attention, remains as rampant as ever, showing up recently…
Literacy at an early stage
The pandemic’s disruptions have only exacerbated many social, economic, and cultural fault lines, and so, learning recovery programs must focus on quality and equity at both the individual and systems level. As our education systems move from scrambling to adapt to school closures and distance learning towards something approaching normality, many are asking questions about how to…
