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Cloud, backup and storage devices: how best to protect your data

  • Written by: Adnene Guabtni, Senior Research Scientist/Engineer, Data61
imageHow much data do you still store only on your mobile, tablet or laptop?Shutterstock/Neirfy

We are producing more data than ever before, with more than 2.5 quintillion bytes produced every day, according to computer giant IBM. That’s a staggering 2,500,000,000,000 gigabytes of data and it’s growing fast.

We have never been so connected...

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A guide to how we decide what to publish in Politics and Society

  • Written by: Amanda Dunn, Editor, The Conversation
imageThe prime minister and opposition leader in happier times.AAP/Gary Ramage/pool

At The Conversation, we receive a lot more ideas for articles than we are able to publish. How many we publish varies from section to section; in Politics & Society we are only able accept around two in every ten ideas pitched to us. To many academics who want to...

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Explainer: the rise of social impact investing

  • Written by: Danielle Logue, Associate Professor in Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Strategy, University of Technology Sydney
imageImpact investing emerged in 2007 out of global discussions on how to mobilise more capital to tackle societal problems.shutterstock

Governments, communities and industries are grappling with issues such as climate change, inequality and social justice – and how to mobilise more funding to tackle these issues. One possible solution is impact...

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What did the rich man say to the poor man? Why spatial inequality in Australia is no joke

  • Written by: Bruce Bradbury, Associate Professor, Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW
imageNew research shows that spatial segregation between the rich and poor in our six largest cities has been increasing over time.John W. Iwanski/flickr, CC BY-NC

What did the rich man say to the poor man? Nothing, they never met. *

As in many other countries, income inequality in Australia has grown over the past two decades. At the same time,...

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