So, over to Matt: Thursday 2 February marks the first of the Guardian's quarterly hack days for 2012, a permanent fixture in the calendar for the digital development team in partnership with editorial, commercial and other parts of the Guardian.
Signaling the company's high hopes for the digital development of the Under Armour brand under MapMyFitness, the company labeled its new acquisition one of the "largest connected fitness communities in the world".
In my role as a Commissioner on the Broadband Commission for Digital Development, I have led the work on ICT and the SDGs, to ensure that the awareness of the benefits of access to ICT increases throughout society as well as being part of providing universal and affordable access.
Broadband access has become so essential to modern life that a group established by UNESCO and the UN International Telecommunications Union -- the Broadband Commission for Digital Development - declared in 2011 that broadband communication "is not just a human need - it is a human right," similar to food, shelter, and health care.
As part of its health-care agenda, organizers plan to push the Broadband Commission for Digital Development, a U.N.-sponsored group of leaders in the telecommunication industry, to provide community health workers in Africa with free cell phones and data lines.
The survey on broadband access, published by the UN broadband commission for digital development, reveals that more than 90% of people in the 49 least developed countries do not have access to the internet.
@marialgilbert and @GettyMuseum Kajsa is a digital navigator at the new media department of Nordiska Museet in Stockholm, Sweden – she develops projects for on site, online and mobile experiences, action plans for digital development, chairs the museum's social media editors group and is responsible for evaluation of social media presence.
Among the many hats he now wears, he's presently a UN Broadband Commissioner for digital development, and also the founder of both Athgo International, one of the leading global entrepreneurship platforms, and Athgo Global, a cutting-edge tech startup in stealth mode, which will use deep 'artificial intelligence' to auto-guide budding entrepreneurs around the world to launch startup businesses.
The right to be forgotten online has long been a political debate in France, with the former rightwing minister for digital development, Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, setting up a charter in 2010 aimed at protecting personal information.
Two years ago, the Boston Consulting Group predicted that, by 2016, three billion people would be online; this year, the international Broadband Commission for Digital Development found that we're likely to reach that milestone much sooner than expected, with an estimated 2.9 billion people online as of the end of this year, up from 2.3 billion, in 2013.
We therefore selected this digit (and its associated metacarpal) as a proxy for overall digital development.
