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• Thinking anew: re-visiting the innovation imperative

  by Alan Bruce, Universal Learning Systems Alan Bruce discusses the Creanova project, a major EU project funded under the Transversal Research element of the Lifelong Learning Program. This project has at its core an examination of the contours and impe...

• Armed conflict & education – UNESCO report

  Armed conflict & education – UNESCO report UNESCO expects sexual violence and rape to rob 28 million children of an education in 2011. Rape, sometimes deliberately organised by senior political and military leaders, is singled out as the caus...

• Nigerians learn new campaigning skills

  Nigerians learn new campaigning skills New communications technology and social networking are about to influence the politics of the African Continent once again. This time it is Nigeria, where President Goodluck Jonathan (above) and other leaders, ar...

• E-Learning on the high seas: Anti-piracy training online

  by Sandy Sweet, Canadian Police Knowledge Network E-Learning isn’t something that you would naturally associate with pirates. But in today’s high-risk mariner environment, knowing how to respond effectively to a pirate attack is the difference betw...

• Cyber warriors wanted by Uncle Sam

  Cyber warriors wanted by Uncle Sam In the face of continuing threats to online security and a potential future shift from conventional warfare  to targeted cyber attacks, the risks of a cyber war are serious. Now the  US Cyber Challenge has been lau...

• Crime labs under the gun to beat backlogs

  Crime labs under the gun to beat backlogs The average smart American TV CSI can solve a case in 53 minutes. His real life contemporaries take weeks, months, even years, to finish a job. In parts of the USA as many as 70 per cent of all forensic science...

• Technology, responsibility, humanity

  by Capt. António Almeida de Moura, Portuguese Navy Captain António Almeida de Moura of the Portuguese Navy analyses the impact of technological change on our understanding of responsibility. He argues that critical thinking will be a crucial skill in...

• Germany prepares for cyber war

  by Filippa von Stackelberg The German Government is developing a major programme to protect its computer networks and supply systems. A new institution - the National Cyber Defence Centre (Nationales Cyber-Abwehrzentrum) – will be responsible for det...

• The shipowner who trained his sailors to fight pirates with ghost ships

  by Andrew Rosthorn In a twenty-first century echo of a 1971 television series about a nineteenth century River Mersey shipping pioneer, the heavy engineering world held its breath in February as a Bremen shipowner pitted his advanced training and techn...