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Still, the Chinese may have something to learn from Russia’s well-choreographed
online
army of trolls and bots.
A recent study by researchers at the LSE reveals that the Internet has increased inequality, with educated, high-income people deriving the greatest benefits
online
and multinational corporations able to grow massively – while evading accountability.
Meanwhile, the Chinese government, using its Wuzhen World Internet Conference series, has issued principles endorsed by the Shanghai Cooperation Organization calling for recognition of the right of sovereign states to control
online
content on their territory.
A study of a major “bricks and clicks” company (one that combines offline and
online
operations) found that distributed leadership was essential.
Moreover, cultural differences impede any broad agreements on regulating
online
content.
Americans Elect will use a long series of competitions and
online
and offline convocations to select a candidate who will be beholden to millions of people at large, rather than to a smaller group of big donors whose interests the candidate must serve.
If the point is to replace our current governments with more accountable models, we need to use new
online
tools not only to throw out the old, but also to bring in the new.
The growing
online
database already contains more than 200 different syllabi from universities around the world.
With details continuing to emerge about how Russia used social media to influence the outcome of the 2016 election, a growing chorus is calling for stronger legislation to regulate
online
activities.
And one option stands out:
online
learning.
In this sense, they are missing out on a major opportunity, especially given the strides that have been made in improving the effectiveness and appeal of
online
learning.
Through
online
learning, it would be far easier to measure progress and ensure that students are acquiring knowledge and skills they can actually use.
Meanwhile,
online
learning can facilitate the introduction of new and innovative teaching and learning methods.
For example, a reduction in traditional lecturing and rote learning could create space for the kinds of self-paced and personalized learning and assessment tools being used by professors delivering Massive Open
Online
Courses on EdX and other
online
educational platforms.
Taking all of this into consideration, we have created the Al Ghurair Open Learning Scholars Program, aimed at making some of the best education in the world available to Arab youth through
online
degree programs.
We are setting the bar high, by establishing our first collaboration with MIT, a leader in open
online
learning.
But, in order to maximize the impact of our investment, perceptions of
online
learning must change, which will require a joint effort by educational institutions, government, and the private sector.
Indeed, Arab educational institutions must begin to explore the development of high-quality
online
programs.
As for private-sector actors, the key will be to reward employees with degrees and certifications received through
online
programs.
From now on, I told them, Rakuten – Japan’s largest
online
marketplace, of which I am CEO – would conduct all of its business, from official meetings to internal emails, in English.
Examples of this new approach include technology companies such as Omada Health, which delivers customized
online
health coaching at home for people at risk of diabetes; social enterprises, such as the Grameen Bank, which is building low-cost primary care systems on the back of its microlending networks; and the One Million Community Health Worker Campaign, which teaches ordinary citizens how to provide care in their own communities, based on lessons learned from similar models in Ethiopia, Rwanda, and elsewhere in Sub-Saharan Africa.
And financial institutions are making precise lending decisions in seconds rather than weeks, thanks to a wealth of
online
data on individuals and firms.
But with
online
markets, savings are generated in many dimensions, and transaction costs are sharply reduced at all stages of the process.
But are
online
markets meeting this potential?
Nowadays,
online
retailers use consumers’ Internet activities and other personal data to deliver “targeted pricing.”
To take one particularly controversial example, airlines now use travelers’ data to customize ticket prices in ways that essentially cancel out the savings once offered by
online
markets.
Indeed, if you search
online
for a more expensive car or a more expensive vacation, that fact will be documented by tracking cookies or other means of
online
surveillance.
Part of the segmentation of
online
markets involves web companies testing price points to estimate precisely the demand curve and its links to household characteristics.
Reinhart and Rogoff, shocked by this charge – tantamount to an accusation of academic dishonesty – released a careful rebuttal, including
online
evidence that they had not been reticent about sharing their data.
But now employees of all kinds, not just those in customer support or public relations, have an
online
presence.
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