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New digital divide is the gap between the top end of the global population who have access to power-intensive technologies and those at the bottom whose internet access remains static

Microscope is lightweight costs next to nothing and is open source meaning that anyone can reproduce the design by 3D printing parts and cobbling them together with shop-bought motors and circuit boards

Manufacturers from Ghana and Wales to Chile and Australia are all using OpenFlexure’s designs to give people everywhere access to low-source microscopy

Tech bros may want you to believe there is no point in making something new unless it is difficult inaccessible and exclusionary

Infrastructure is managed for and by the municipality serves a pressing need and can be installed and built by the people who deploy it

Develop an AI at your own home and programme it to reflect your values and prioritise your safety you would trust it more

Policy and innovation go hand in hand meaning that the consequences of good technology far exceed the technology itself extending to governance and social welfare

Microscopes are crucial for diagnosing infections but can cost millions of pounds making them entirely inaccessible for many people across the globe

Good innovation often involves lobbying for good

Innovation is always investment-driven shiny lab-born experimental exciting

Innovation is needs-driven scrappy on location iterative practical mundane in the real world

State-of-the-art technology has to be expensive energy consumptive and hard to engineer

Some of today’s most brilliant minds are working out how to manage the trade-off between internet range and bandwidth and whether there are obstacles in the way such as mountains and foliage

She spawned B4RN by demonstrating fast internet could be connected with fibre-optic cable a digger and the desire to just get on and do it B4RN promotes community fibre partnerships

Real pioneering technologies are genuinely useful systems called frugal tech brought to life by people doing more with less

Big tech poured hundreds of millions into watering down the EU AI Act good tech lobbies for better internet provisions for all

Frugal tech does not impose top-down solutions that complicate lives while making a few people rich

Russia's Olympic committee is only one formally suspended from Olympic competition

Before being elected to lead the I.O.C. last year Ms Coventry had been part of a group of athletes that helped the organization create its current rules on athlete expression

Olympic officials loosened rules in 2020 allowing athletes to make political statements on social media or to journalists but not while competing or on medal stand