The digital world promises a refresh to the lives we lead. Just a few decades before our own, the internet was beginning to find its way into the average household. It offered the first dose of a ...
One recent evening, I had chicken parmignana bubbling on a platter on the table. My eight year old son was playing Spore, the Will Wright video game that pits a self-designed two-celled creature ...
In January 2008, FRONTLINE broadcast my last film, Growing Up Online, which looked at the impact of technology on the social and emotional lives of adolescents. The reaction to the film clearly showed ...
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A Tropical Island Country About To Disappear From Climate Change Is The World's First 'Digital Nation'
Tuvalu, one of the world's least-visited countries, is a small island nation located in the South Pacific. While it may look like one of these typical Polynesian islands designed for any traveler's ...
In the early 1990s, when the Soviet Union withdrew from its occupation of Estonia, the country had nothing in place to support a new government. In 1991, the Soviet Union officially recognised the ...
Last April, Balaji Srinivasan, a high-profile figure in the crypto space and the ex-CTO of Coinbase, wrote a piece titled “How to Start a New Country” in the 21st century. His view was that this new ...
This post is part of Global Voices’ May 2026 Spotlight series, “Global crisis, local solutions.” This series will offer stories of resistance and successful climate action, insight into how ...
The Pacific Islands are vulnerable to cyberattacks – perhaps none more so than Tuvalu, which aims to become the first digital nation. Considering the volume and sensitivity of the information that ...
On the first floor of an unassuming building on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, three wall clocks are set to the times of Malaysia, Saudi Arabia and Arakan, the former name for Rakhine state in west ...
A ‘network state’ is ideologically aligned but geographically decentralised. The people are spread around the world in clusters of varying size, but their hearts are in one place. In June 2022 Balaji ...
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State of the Digital Nation: Building the foundation for the Philippines’ digital future
In his fourth State of the Nation Address, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. reaffirmed the role of digital transformation in shaping the country’s future—calling for wider internet access, improved ...
Digital Nation is a new, open source PBS project that explores what it means to be human in an entirely new world -- a digital world. It consists of this Web site as well as a major FRONTLINE ...
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