New research on New South Wales students shows many do not have access to computers and the support they need to use them. This means they risk falling behind.
It’s not all about broadband access. Key adult education programs help Canadians acquire needed digital literacy skills for further education, apprenticeship training, certification and employment.
When it comes to equitable and sustainable infrastructure, we can learn a lot from beaver dams — according to both traditional Indigenous oral history as well as NASA researchers.
Network equipment riding on balloons, airships, gliders and planes could boost internet access, including in disaster zones, and improve scientific monitoring.
Most Australians pay tax agents because they see it as easier and a way to maximise tax refunds. Yet our survey found most people who have used the myTax site found it easy, and plan to use it again.
The slow disappearance of cash has advantages, but it can also exclude the most vulnerable from socio-economic activity. It’s also a privatisation that deteriorates the symbolic dimensions of money.
The Agricultural Internet of Things is making farming more efficient. An information technology expert describes some of the challenges of working with sensors and antennas underground.