Institutions, whether they are colleges, schools, businesses or public bodies now have a choice: lose influence to the WhatsApp juggernaut or get back in the driving seat by owning the online conversation space themselves. I’ll quickly explain the issue in this article, however if you still don’t think there’s a…

Soon we will need a licence before we can open a social media account. Technology often accelerates past regulation, but when regulation catches up it often has similar characteristics. When cars were first introduced there was no driving licence but it soon became clear there was a learning curve before…

Making friends and hanging out with your neighbours reduces the number of social purpose car journeys. Street parties are a great way to help you make friends locally. It’s a simple formula and anyone can benefit, whatever their age: The more time we spend hanging out with neighbours the less…

Brexit is a political earthquake. Earthquakes are caused when tectonic plates are meant to have shifted but haven’t. The longer the build up of pressure, the bigger the earthquake. While many have accused Brexiters of fantasy in how they perceive an exit from the EU, the real fantasy is the…

British MP Damian Collins landed a fair punch on Facebook yesterday (Facebook offered preferential access to data, UK alleges — FT) when he called out private developer whitelisting as anti-competitive. Developer whitelisting is often part of an insidious tech platform strategy of “developer bait and switch”. This is where developers…

For generations, we’ve taught our children the 3 R’s — Reading, wRiting, and aRithmetic. But for our modern, digital age where content can come in any medium and some to be trusted more than others, there’s a now a new, pressing requirement. We need our kids to understand how the…

In today’s DCMS Committee questioning of Facebook I had a real sense of the wrong questions at the right time. Let me unpack that. This is the right time (never has there been a more right time!): 2.2 billion people on a single digital platform — never before has…

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As we watch the grinding saga of the American congress grilling “big tech” execs from Facebook, Google and Twitter over Russian meddling in their recent presidential election — we can see new regulation beginning to form in the minds of the US lawmakers: ideas such as the “Honest Ads” act…