Technology

This program features Steve Huffman, CEO and co-founder of Reddit, in conversation with Christine Lagorio-Chafkin, senior writer at Inc.com and Inc. magazine, about the community and the platform Huffman built 15 years ago.

Digital technology, its pervasiveness in our lives, its impact on how we think and remember, its central role in mediating our relationships, has been a growing concern for parents navigating raising children in a rapidly changing landscape. Physical distancing, brought on by the global COVID-19 pandemic, has accelerated the use of these technologies, with classes going virtual and social activities moved online. How will this collective leap to functioning virtually affect our children’s lives, ability to learn and to relate to others?

Never before has it been more important for our local governments to get public procurement right. How our local governments respond to the current crisis will lay the foundation for more equitable communities in the recovery to come.

APRIL 24, 2020 – Every day there’s a new story about the challenges that municipal governments face with procurement due to COVID-19. We discuss shared challenges facing U.S. cities and early solutions.

APRIL 24, 2020 – As schools move to distance learning, workers are displaced from their jobs and public services move online, the need for an affordable, reliable broadband connection and productivity technology is even more acute.

APRIL 16, 2020 – Cyber criminals and nation-states are seizing on the COVID-19 pandemic, exploiting widespread uncertainty and fear to execute cyberattacks against individuals, businesses, and government agencies.

When it comes to the Internet, the COVID-19 crisis is teaching us that we’re so much better off than we could have been, but not as good as we need to be.

APRIL 3, 2020 – COVID-19 is challenging that most primal of human instincts — to be together. To what extent will this type of interaction change our understanding of what it means to be in a community and a society?

MARCH 27, 2020 – We hear from experts on China’s technology capability, how it was deployed, and what civic technology is in the works around the world.

Over one billion young people are facing disruptions to their education. Online learning can help fill the gaps.