UNESCO recently launched an ICT project in Myanmar, as part of the Connect To Learn initiative in Myanmar by Earth Institute of Columbia University, Millennium Promise, Ericsson, the UK Department of International Development (DFID) and other partners to promote mobile technology for learning. Worl
My child just stepped into teenage and already her friends are the most important people in her life. I can relate. When I was a teenager, my friends were the reason I survived the loss of my mother. For a long time I believed that friends are more important than family, until midlife struck and I d
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Now is as good a time as any to understand sexual assault in the realm of digital life. The US Department of Justice defines sexual violence, as “any unwanted sexual act, or attempt to obtain a sexual act, through coercion, unwanted sexual advances, and sexua
How can it be? How can it be that at least 2 out of every 10 girls and 1 out of every 10 boys are estimated to be sexually abused (physical contact abuse) before their 14th birthday? Every 8 minutes, Child Protection Services responds to a sexual abuse report. What solutions are we providing to conf
At Mobicip, we have been studying the various aspects of our technological society, with particular reference to youth, for a couple of years now. Our research has been largely spurred by personal experience – many of us at Mobicip are parents of digital natives – and augmented by extensive net se
Perhaps the greatest change in parent-child relationship has occurred in the past two decades, with the advent of the digital age. This change is most noticeable in the relationship between an adolescent child and the parent. The knee-jerk reaction is to believe that the digital age has deteriorat
We are now so far into the digital age that many of us cannot remember life before it. The digital revolution, that historians say as extending between 1950 and 1970 has changed life as much as the industrial revolution of the late nineteenth century did, or perhaps even more. The “revolution” pha
Keeping up with your kids nowadays could be a Herculean task for most. Even in today’s digitally inclusive environment, children have a bigger appetite than parents for consuming and internalising digital trends and content. And there’s no limit to information, news and snippets of general interest
Moving on from incremental progress, Mobicip is taking the big leap in 2017! Lots of changes and an impending transformation are in store in the coming months. As a reflection of the coming developments, here is what's up at Mobicip this January: Mobicip is now available for the entir
Here's wishing you a Happy New Year! May 2017 be full of surprises. We hope you achieve all your dreams and stick to all your resolutions! We've managed to fulfill one of your popular demands just in time for the New Year. Mobicip is now available for the entire family of Mac computers and laptops.
Twinkling lights, plastic reindeers with red noses, cinnamon wafting in the air, stockings in the fireplace – the season’s upon us once again. From ordering gifts online to sending out virtual cards, another digital Christmas is in the air: Here's how you can add snow flakes to your web pages for
I was a reluctant digital immigrant in my late twenties. Yet, I met my significant other online (this was the pre-social networking era) and the rest, as the cliché goes, was chemistry, much to my own surprise. My digital native teenage child finds nothing surprising about this. “How else will you
