Britain's security services have acknowledged they have the worldwide capability to bypass the growing use of encryption by internet companies by attacking the computers themselves.

President Barack Obama said Friday that police and spies should not be locked out of encrypted smartphones and messaging apps, taking his first public stance in a simmering battle over private communications in the digital age.

Whenever the terrorist threat is increased, as it has been since the tragic events in Paris last week, so too are the calls from politicians to increase the powers of the people they employ to protect the public from such threats.

As a step to bridge help this large section of the Indian society with low or no technological knowledge, a Digital Literacy Programme is to be launched to train people in basic use of technology.

An online initiative to raise money for digital literacy programs in Hamilton has netted $22,660 after a two-month campaign.

Rwanda, ICDL to advance digital literacy

If you are a job seeker with an understanding of coding - even the basics - you've got a competitive edge that employers are seeking.

Hutt City Libraries' innovative digital literacy programme Stepping UP, has returned to five Hutt City Libraries after a record number enrolments in 2014.

This discourse on politics of lies, dis­tortion and disinformation, completes the trilogy of the "The Politics of" series put together to debunk the recent anti-Buhari campaign. It is only natural that I make ref­erence to some of the earlier so-called "Six­teen 'Sins' of General Buhari" in the course of addressing the impulsive mendacity of the Buhari traducers.

Reports of the death of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) may have been greatly exaggerated, but predictions of a pivot toward MOOCs that are more vocational in nature (as opposed to a pathway to a liberal arts degree) appear to have been right on target.

A new MOOC platform is offering free online training for IT and cybersecurity professionals. Cybrary.IT offers 20-plus certification courses in systems administration, network administration and cybersecurity, with more on the way. More than 3,500 students worldwide have joined so far.

The University of New Mexico's latest Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), Rural Health Nursing, is now open to students. This course is focused on people interested in the problems that face health care providers when resources are scarce or culturally inappropriate.

In 1996, Bill Gates declared that "content is king." Gates was talking about the Internet, and the publishing, creating, and accessing capabilities that came as a result. However, the same has been true in education for a very long time. Education - from elementary to college to corporate learning - has relied on the "sage on the stage" approach: one teacher, explaining content to a class of students. The primary value, often assumed, of the teacher is his or her content knowledge and the ability to transfer this content effectively to the students in the class.

More than 6,500 people have already signed up for the massive open online course being offered by SUNY Buffalo State, the first MOOC administered by a local college.

Cybrary.it, the free cybersecurity MOOC program that launched last week in Greenbelt, has already enrolled more than 10,000 students, according to CEO Ralph Sita.

The identities of the feminist editors weren't specified in the article, and with good cause: They didn't exist. At no time in the entire case were there "five feminist editors" up for a ban. But understandable outrage at the supposed misogynist move blew up on the Internet. And more stories followed-in Gawker, Raw Story, the Mary Sue, Inquisitr, and ThinkProgress-all sourcing the Guardian, spreading the myth of the fabled five feminist editors who were the only thing holding off Gamergate's takeover of Wikipedia.

The Wikimedia Foundation has just announced that it has reached a settlement with new media company Internet Brands to put a stop to all litigation between the two parties concerning the creation and recent launch of free wiki travel site Wikivoyage.

The available range of tools also resembles those found in web content management solutions. Enterprise social networks all include wikis, blogs and similar website type widgets. T

Blogs, Tweets, Wikis and business/social nets give everyone in the organization the tools to work/play more efficiently, more effectively.

The policy applies to school system employees who post on the following: Social networking websites (including, but not limited to, MySpace, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, LinkedIn and Facebook), blogs, Wikis (including, but not limited to, Wikipedia) and other websites and message boards.