Technology & Innovation

Chairman Ajit Pai of the FCC

The internet still works after the net neutrality repeal. Now Congress must act to save it.

Nicol Turner Lee

Friday, December 15, 2017

An employee registers a customer for a mobile money transfer, known as M-Pesa, inside the Safaricom mobile phone care centre in the central business district of Kenya's capital Nairobi July 15, 2013. To match Insight AFRICA-MOBILEMONEY/ Picture taken July 15, 2013. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya (KENYA - Tags: BUSINESS TELECOMS) - GM1EA7U1QTU01

Figures of the week: Blockchain opportunities and challenges in Africa

Friday, December 15, 2017

Supporter of Net Neutrality

A goal realized: Network lobbyists’ sweeping capture of their regulator

Thursday, December 14, 2017

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Smart transportation technology promises to lower the costs of traffic

Thursday, December 14, 2017

Beneath the U.S. job numbers: Tech’s influence on the workforce continues to hollow out the labor market

Mark Muro and Jacob Whiton

Wednesday, December 6, 2017

(L-R) Facebook General Counsel Colin Stretch, Twitter's acting General Counsel Sean Edgett and Google's Director of Law Enforcement and Information Security Richard Salgado are sworn in to testify before a U.S. Senate Judiciary Crime and Terrorism Subcommittee hearing on how Russia allegedly used their services to try to sway the 2016 U.S. elections, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., October 31, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst - RC185BF17180

Big technology firms challenge traditional assumptions about antitrust enforcement

Clara Hendrickson and William A. Galston

Wednesday, December 6, 2017

Michael Otieno, a pharmacist, dispenses anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs at the Mater Hospital in Kenya's capital Nairobi, September 10, 2015. Most of the 3,000 patients at Mater Hospital's Comprehensive Care Clinic, dedicated to HIV/AIDS treatment, come from nearby shanty towns. In Kenya, HIV prevalence among adults has almost halved since the mid-1990s to 5.3 percent in 2014, according to UNAIDS. Yet HIV/AIDS remains the leading cause of death in Kenya, responsible for nearly three in 10 deaths in the east African country, where 1.6 million Kenyans are infected, government data in 2014 shows. Picture taken September 10, 2015. To match Special Series DEVELOPMENT-GOALS/KENYA-HEALTH REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya - GF10000201331

Factors limiting private sector investment in global health R&D

Darrell M. West

Monday, December 4, 2017

The most radical digital upskilling is now occurring in middle- and lower-level jobs

Monday, December 4, 2017

A row of patented two axes solar tracking system at the Montesquieu solar plant in Martillac, southwestern France, October 2, 2008. The 126 trackers, which follow the sun's path from east to west, and its height in the sky from the horizon during the changing seasons, produce 30 per cent more energy than static solar panels. REUTERS/Regis Duvignau (FRANCE) - PM1E4A21DMN01

Inventions and inequality: Class gaps in patenting

Richard V. Reeves and Nathan Joo

Monday, December 4, 2017

Fire trucks wait to depart into the hillsides during La Tuna Canyon fire over Burbank, California, September 3, 2017. REUTERS/ Kyle Grillot - RC1766127030

Using performance analytics in local government

Kevin C. Desouza, Gregory S. Dawson, Alfred Ho, and Rashmi Krishnamurthy

Thursday, November 30, 2017