Gordon Brown has announced his future plans, which include working to increase global access to education and boosting internet use in Africa.

Internet activities are one of the easiest ways to bring yourself to the attention of a) a mass audience and b) the people who have all the money. Whether you are tech guru Jason Calacanis or a troupe of actors performing skits for podcast in the hope that you’ll become viral, the internet is the

My initial reaction to Gordon Brown's plan to connect 1.4 million households with children to the internet is that the whole initiative begs more questions than it answers. Superficially, he is right that an internet connection at home is an...

The House of Lords is poised to make concessions to critics of a plan to tackle internet piracy by blocking websites, after protests from internet ­companies. Shadow culture minister Jeremy Hunt said the plan needed changes

These are all internet problems and [internet users] think someone should do something about it. Although many internet users think the government should keep out of the internet, I suggest to you that most ordinary people who just use the internet like they use the banking system or the trains think that the government should make sure it all works properly for them and that bad things get stoppe...

Martin Kelly makes the following observation about the internet: Without doubt, as a tool for the dissemination of ideas the Internet sits next only to the printing press in its potential; yet just as Chesterton, I think it was, wrote that the downside of the printing press was the explosion of the volume of dud philosophy that appeared in its wake, so too does the Internet have a downside. It is ...

Before you say “get him and his Ivy league education”, my dealings with Harvard amount to its weekly 10-minute podcast, which doesn't really qualify me as an alumni. However, the latest edition of the Harvard Business Ideacast (sign up through iTunes)  - concerning the internet, the brain and the future of business - is an interesting take on brain/internet similarities. Without

You know, the way that it’s all done over the internet from Australia? PICS PLEASE New dinosaur discovered in South Africa Scientists in South Africa have hailed the discovery of a huge new dinosaur, Aardonyx celestae, that predates the giants of the Jurassic period. Hmm, still a few teething problems, eh?

Leaders of the "real" and "virtual" worlds will meet, en masse, for the first time in northern France today. At the G8 world economic summit in Deauville in Normandy, the future of the internet will join the Arab Spring, Africa and nuclear safety as an official "problem" on the agenda of the most powerful men, and women, on earth.

Gordon Brown is to devote time to unpaid education and internet projects, his spokesman says.