#DigitalLunch

#DigitalLunch 7: The Future of Education?

Mick Fealty on August 30, 2012, 1:17 pm

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Okay, so seven weeks since our first experimental steps on Google Plus (you can find all previous #DigitalLunch programmes here) and we’ve had an interesting journey through the summer… Tomorrow, it’s all about the challenges and opportunities of education in a digital age.. By that, I mean how is the net affecting the way education is done (and I’m not taking about the increasingly sterile forty year old ruck about selection, under-performing secondaries or Hogwartian indulgence over the excellence of …

In this technology-oriented society, why are women still at the back of the bus?

Fabienne Joseph on August 24, 2012, 10:46 am

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In this technology-oriented society, IT workers are now comparable to builders, plumbers and other technicians of traditional society. These are the individuals upon which 22 million UK employees who use IT in their daily work rely on to get their jobs done. T workers have become the functional backbone of companies across the UK and Ireland. Unfortunately, in these days of equality, the IT sector is dominated by men. Although not a “physically” demanding sector, IT is generally seen to …

#DigitalLunch: Women In Technology…

Mick Fealty on August 22, 2012, 6:25 pm

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Many of the most visible people in the tech and many different social worlds are men. But there is a plethora of talented women working in technology. We want to hear their stories. So far we’ve done #DigitalLunch sessions on Google Plus, Value and/or profit in digital journalism, social innovation, and then last week, Tourism in a digital age. This week it is Women In Technology (#womenintech)… Format – We kick off with a keynote interviewee for 5-10 mins, with …

We’re looking for questions for Friday’s #DigitalLunch panel, now!!

Mick Fealty on August 15, 2012, 3:53 pm

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A quick heads up on Friday’s #DigitalLunch session on Google Plus… This week we ask how digital is affecting tourism? And not just at home, but globally. To that end we hope to have guests from as far apart as a Caracas and east Africa, encompassing industry practitioners and travel writers. In contrast to previous editions this week we can give you the URL where you will be able to watch the broadcast live, but also where (but you will …

Tomorrow’s #Digital Lunch: Can digital journalism be commercially valuable?

Mick Fealty on August 2, 2012, 1:43 pm

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Yep, programme number three in an evolving series… Not only is it to be kindly hosted by UTV in Belfast, but our first special guest interviewee will be the TV station’s MD, Michael Wilson… We’ll kick off by looking at the vexed issue of how to extract commercial value out of digital journalism and segway into looking at other new commercial responses to a steadily digitising world… If you do want to join live panel you are welcome, but you …