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Software and the law
Science, Maths & Technology

Software and the law

...data are extremely easy to copy and distribute – which is sometimes beneficial, since this enlarges the community of practice for that software or information, and the community within which data can be exchanged. One way to ensure excludability is to use technical measures, like encryption and licence codes, along with the internet to check that people are properly...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Information security
Science, Maths & Technology

Information security

...data. The value of information springs from the ways it is interpreted and applied to make products – like Coca-Cola – and to provide services – like Facebook does for its advertisers. As we have seen, and supported by academic writers such as Itami and Roehl (1987), the true value of an organisation is in the information it uses and creates. Activity 3: You and...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Spectre and Meltdown: What do you need to know about the chip security flaws?
Digital & Computing

Spectre and Meltdown: What do you need to know about the chip security flaws?

...data including passwords stolen. The cloud servers that store websites and other internet data are also at risk. This is one of the biggest cyber security vulnerabilities we’re ever seen in terms of the potential impact to personal, business and infrastructure computer systems. What’s more, because the flaw is located in such a fundamental part of the computer,...
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Article 5 mins
Three weeks in June and one night in November
Society, Politics & Law

Three weeks in June and one night in November

...data and controlled by investment management corporations. Politics moved away from the idea of making society better, and instead became about the prediction and management of risk. Transcript The political narrative, hollowed out by simplification and often intentionally contradiction, took on a surreal aspect. As Curtis is fond of saying, ‘nothing quite made sense...
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Article 10 mins
Researching at the Margins: How Collective Autoethnography centred Black mothers’ knowledge
Society, Politics & Law

Researching at the Margins: How Collective Autoethnography centred Black mothers’ knowledge

...data. It was a co-constructed reality. We were engaged in a research method called collective autoethnography, though we were only just beginning to name it as such. [Woman holding a phone while speaking in a voice note] What Is Collective Autoethnography? Autoethnography (AE) is an approach to qualitative inquiry in which a researcher recounts a story of their own...
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Article 5 mins
Learning from major cyber security incidents
Digital & Computing

Learning from major cyber security incidents

...analysis carried out by Colin Tankard, managing director of a data security company, here is a summary of what went wrong and how the attack could have been prevented (Tankard, 2015): The three web pages that were vulnerable to SQLi were inherited from Tiscali when TalkTalk took over its UK business in 2009 (ICO, 2016). According to the ICO’s investigation, TalkTalk did...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Customer Service: Expert's Corner with Professor Sally Dibb
Money & Business

Customer Service: Expert's Corner with Professor Sally Dibb

...data about these customers and managing relationships with them. The aim of CRM is to maintain the ongoing interest and support of the most worthwhile and valuable customers in the target segments that the organisation is prioritising. CRM databases build up knowledge of individual customers’ characteristics and buying behaviour, using these insights to tailor the...
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Article 5 mins
Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring
Money & Business

Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring

...analysis, or TNA (sometimes called a training needs assessment), design and development, delivery and evaluation critically evaluate the strengths and limitations of the traditional training-based approach, and the main implications of the shift from training to learning explain what we mean by coaching and mentoring and how they can support learning practise a range of...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs