MIT professor Neil Gershenfeld talks about his Fab Lab -- a low-cost lab that lets people build things they need using digital and analog tools. It's a simple idea with powerful results.

Five billion people can't use the internet. Aleph Molinari empowers digitally excluded people, by giving them access to computers and sharing the know-how to use them.

What if we could use existing technologies to provide Internet access to the more than 4 billion people living in places where the infrastructure can't support it? using off-the-shelf LeDs and solar cells, Harald Haas and his team have...

Roughly two billion people worldwide don't have access to banks or financial services like credit, insurance and investment -- or even a way to formally prove their identity. How do we bridge this divide? Mastercard CEO Ajay Banga sits...

A self-declared "repair geek," Gay Gordon-Byrne is a driving force behind the right-to-repair movement, which aims to empower people to fix their stuff. She describes how the movement is gaining legislative momentum and breaks down how...

The video highlights the global disparity in Internet access between rich and poor countries, with Luxembourg having more access than all of Africa. The UN has set a goal to connect all villages to the Internet by 2015, sparking debates...

At WSJ Tech Live, Kimberly Bryant and Jessica Rosenworcel discuss how the government and privacy sector should work to bridge the digital divide.

The stories we share as a society come packaged inside our movies, video games, novels, and other media. These stories provide a shared experience, and bring different groups together. This is a positive effect of mass media, but not all...

The pandemic showed us that technology was an educational lifeline to students--but it also reinforced the digital divide and widened the advantage gap between the rich and poor. Sal Khan shares where investments and partnerships can...

An introduction to flipped learning. What is a flipped classroom? Why do teachers flip? Follow me on twitter @hiphughes for more teaching insights.

Rob Mancabelli is a speaker and author in the field of educational technology. He’s the co–author of the book Personal Learning Networks: Using the Power of Connections to Transform Education, a medal winner for Education Book of the...