The digital economy is transforming the world of work. Over the past decade, expansion in broadband connectivity, cloud computing, and data has led to the proliferation of digital platforms, which have penetrated most sectors of the economy and societies.
Since early 2020, the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic have led to remote working arrangements and allowed for the continuation of many business activities, further reinforcing the growth and impact of the digital economy.
The crisis has also laid bare and exacerbated the growing digital divide within, between and across developed and developing countries, particularly in terms of the availability, affordability and use of information ICTs and access to the internet, deepening existing inequalities.
World Social Justice Day 2021 is a call for social justice in the digital economy. Stream from Beamafilm's collection of films showcasing ways in which technology is transforming the digital economy. Take a stand for social justice in the digital economy.
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Cornered in a tiny building for half a decade, Julian Assange is undeterred even as the legal jeopardy he faces threatens to undermine the organization he leads and fracture the movement he inspired.
What really happens with your Facebook photos? Why are there hidden microphones in Google Nest? Find out how these big corporations make a business out of their users' personal information.
Are algorithms good or bad? Or just tools we have created to help us live better lives? Anjan Sundaram – author, journalist and mathematician – travels the world to meet with people designing this code.
When you post something on the web, can you be sure it stays there? Enter a hidden shadow industry of digital cleaning, where the Internet rids itself of what it doesn't like – violence, pornography and – political content. Who is controlling what we see - and what...
Thirty years after Koyaanisqatsi, Godfrey Reggio – with the support of Philip Glass and Jon Kane – once again leapfrogs over earth-bound filmmakers and creates another stunning, wordless portrait of modern life.
Stuxnet - the most powerful computer virus you don't know about. "Zero Days" is the most comprehensive accounting of how a clandestine mission opened the Pandora's Box of cyber-warfare.
