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Activate 2014

  • A Kids Caring 4 Kids scheme in Kenya

    How the power of a personal story is helping change lives in Africa

    Inspired as a child to help Aids orphans, Kendall Ciesemier tells us how she battled her own serious illness while trying to make a difference
  • Georgia Arnold

    MTV is using a teen drama and tech to tackle HIV

    Georgia Arnold, SVP for social responsibility at VIMN, talks about how media organisations can change the lives of their audience
  • Stuart Hughes, BBC World Affairs Producer speaking at the inaugural London summit.

    The roots of storytelling and media

    Ahead of the Transformational Media Summit in Washington later this month, co-founder Jeremy Wickremer discusses the relationship between media and storytelling
  • Oculus Rift headset

    New technology is fuelling the growth of gaming with social purpose

    One of the directors behind Grand Theft Auto, Navid Khonsari, explains why he believes that play will be more purposeful in the future
  • Per Heggenes

    We can solve the water sanitation crisis, but we need your help

    The CEOs of the Ikea Foundation and Water.org call for a partnership to help those that lack access to safe water
  • John Oliver of the Daily Show

    Net neutrality: why Fight for the Future is hosting Internet Slowdown

    Reddit, Netflix, Mozilla and thousands of others are taking part in a public outcry over US cable companies’ attempted power-grab
  • Model presents Samsung Galaxy Gear smartwatch

    Can co-design help wearable technology take off?

    Wearables would be improved if prospective users were included in the design process
  • Eric Pickles

    Filming local town hall meetings: a new dawn for transparency?

    While publishers are taking advantage of the new rights, some fear they could reduce openness
  • A teenage girl using Facebook

    Technology promotes behaviour among children that can be self-revealing

    Parents must be informed of and involved in their children's tech habits, says Jim Steyer

  • Young entrepreneurs take to the stage at Activate London

    Activate London 2014: gallery

    The Guardian’s Activate London Summit took place on 17 July at LSO St Luke’s to discuss the future of money
  • With Africa a predominantly feature phone market, we need to be creative to ensure the news reaches

    How to open up citizen journalism in Africa beyond the smartphone minority

    To have open journalism across Africa we need to be able to reach people even if they have little or no internet access

  • Collaborative credit isn’t scarce like conventional currencies, and doesn’t come with interest deman

    How collaborative credit can heal – rather than just disrupt – capitalism

    Collaborative credit systems such as time banks can help bring about positive transformation within the economy

  • african continent

    The role of Africa's fourth generation

    Fred Swaniker

    Africans today have an obligation to build large-scale prosperity for the first time, but success is not inevitable

  • Alex Mittal: we founded FundersClub to solve the problems we faced as entrepreneurs and angel invest

    FundersClub's Alex Mittal: the web will make venture capital more transparent

    Increased efficiency and transparency in the venture capital industry will result in greater accountability

  • Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz

    The art of getting a VC to say yes

    Entrepreneurs must consider geography, company scale and team qualities before pitching a potentially winning idea

  • To become universal and ubiquitous, bitcoin needs to be an instinctive transaction mechanism availab

    Bitcoin: how to win over consumers

    Mainstream adoption of bitcoin will occur once the currency evolves from being a store of value into a medium of exchange, says Jan Hammer

  • James Beshara: 'Our team envisions a world shaped by crowdfunding and collaboration'.

    Crowdtilt is helping facilitate bite-size crowdfunding campaigns

    From holiday homes to sending the Jamaican Bobsled team to the Olympics, James Beshara explains how Crowdtilt enables people to group fund anything

  • Anna Bance, Girl Meets Dress: 'Collaborative Consumption is drastically changing the way we live. Co

    How Girl Meets Dress is capitalising on the demise of ownership

    Anna Bance of Girl Meets Dress explains how her service taps into a growing preference for experience over ownership

  • Edward Snowden's NSA revelations has rocked public trust in the internet and businesses are still fe

    Four ways the NSA revelations are changing businesses

    Survey reveals that global corporations are still feeling the aftershocks of revelations about NSA's Prism programme. Len Padilla explains how

  • Airbnb, the site that allows homeowners to rent out properties online, has come under fire by critic

    Critics of the sharing economy are missing the point altogether

    Rather than law-breaking, businesses such as Airbnb and Uber are responding to a changing landscape

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