Italy’s rich film heritage comes to the Internet Italy is home to a rich cinema tradition. The first Italian movie was filmed only a few months after the Lumiere Brothers patented their ci... Read more...
Big Tent Sendai: Smarter ways to share information in a crisis Cross-posted from the Official Google Blog As we’ve seen in the last decade, information technology can save lives in a crisis. But even ... Read more...
Measuring innovation and creativity in the Internet era Innovation is not just about science and technology. It’s about arts and culture, too. Technological development and the arts have always ha... Read more...
Breaking Borders for free expression Today in Nairobi, at the biannual Global Voices Citizen Media summit, Google and the group Global Voices announced the winners of the 2nd B... Read more...
Follow the money to fight online piracy Update: 4 July, 19:00 CET. Minor amendments in paragraphs 6 and 10 to more accurately reflect the report and other sources. Until now, most ... Read more...
Luvvies & Boffins Night at the Museum This week saw the second gathering of Google’s Luvvies and Boffins -- this time with added boffinry courtesy of London’s Science Museum . T... Read more...
A tribute to Turing, the father of modern computing “The past is a foreign country—they do things differently there.” It’s a saying that rings especially true in the world of technology. But w... Read more...
Hack4Kids winners pick up prizes in Parliament After 30 hours of intense coding - and personal visits from Vice President Neelie Kroes and journalist and blogger Cory Doctorow - it was... Read more...
Big Tent braves the beach in Cannes When the advertising world convened this week in the South of France for the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity , we pitched up our Big Ten... Read more...
Commemorating Alan Turing at London’s Science Museum As Steven Pinker, the Harvard professor and popular science author, recently wrote : “It would be an exaggeration to say that the British ma... Read more...
Big Tent - from Ireland to Israel Our second Big Tent of the week took place in Tel Aviv, where we delved into the impact of the Internet on democracy, civil society and edu... Read more...
Hacking for child safety online Fri June 22, 16:00, correction made in final paragraph, names of MEPs added. The EUhackathon is back in Brussels - and this time, it’s abou... Read more...