digital inclusion

Microsoft UK’s “Beyond the Badge” spotlight on Kwadwo Benko lands at exactly the moment when AI skilling has shifted from a nice-to-have to a national priority. In his case, the story is bigger than one workshop or one community hall in South East London: it is a case study in how Copilot...

Microsoft’s move to fold SpaceX’s Starlink into its cloud expansion playbook is one of the clearest signals yet that hyperscalers are no longer waiting for telcos to wire the world — and it could reshape how cloud services, connectivity, and even digital finance reach the planet’s most remote...

Microsoft’s new collaboration with Starlink marks the most explicit step yet in a long-running shift: cloud and AI vendors are no longer waiting for telcos to wire the world — they’re partnering to build the connectivity layer themselves, using satellites to reach places fiber never will. The...

Every adult in the United Kingdom will be able to access free, government-backed artificial intelligence training under a major expansion of the AI Skills Boost programme announced at the end of January 2026, an initiative that promises wide reach, short practical modules, and a new virtual AI...

Absa’s decision to scale its ElevateHer AI programme from a South African pilot to nine additional African markets signals a major corporate push into continent-wide AI skilling for women — a move that combines a bank’s regional footprint, Microsoft’s global Elevate skilling stack and Women in...

The UK government’s latest push to make free AI training available to every adult is a bold escalation in a national skills agenda that has already been rolling since 2024–25. Announced as an expansion of the AI Skills Boost programme, the revamped offer promises open access to benchmarked...

The Open Resource Tech Center has launched a local Microsoft Office Mini Workshop Series aimed at helping residents sharpen core productivity skills in Word, Excel and PowerPoint while exposing learners to modern Microsoft 365 workflows — an initiative that brings practical, instructor-led...

Not many Malaysians like being called “old,” and the language around ageing in Malaysia — as in many places — is loaded with assumptions that are often demeaning, patronising and plainly false; a recent feature in a national newspaper collected four firsthand accounts from Malaysians in their...

Microsoft’s connectivity push in Africa has quietly crossed a major threshold: the company now says more than 117 million people on the continent have been brought into reliable internet access through Microsoft‑backed initiatives — exceeding its originally stated target of 100 million by 2025...

MTN and Microsoft have announced a partnership that will give MTN customers temporary, free access to Microsoft’s Copilot AI tools — a move being billed as a push to expand digital skills and AI access across Africa, but one that raises immediate questions about what “free” really means, who...

As organisations confront the practical and environmental fallout of Windows 10 reaching its end of support, a London social enterprise is offering a pragmatic pathway: securely refurbish and repurpose redundant corporate laptops, reimage them with open-source or lightweight supported operating...

Cambridge charity Rebooted is urging companies to turn obsolete Windows 10 laptops into engines of social mobility — securely wiping corporate kit, installing Google’s ChromeOS Flex, and donating the refurbished devices to young people who would otherwise be offline — a timely appeal that...

Cambridge charity Rebooted’s call for businesses to donate idle Windows 10 laptops after Microsoft’s October 14, 2025 end‑of‑support is far more than a feel‑good recycling story — it’s a practical public‑interest proposal that converts a security and e‑waste problem into a measurable...

A new push from a London social enterprise is urging businesses and IT teams to stop treating functional Windows 10 machines as trash — offering refurbishment, secure re-imaging and alternative OS installs as practical, lower-cost routes that cut e‑waste while preserving security and value. The...

A new, age-focused guide to Microsoft’s latest desktop — promoted in a recent press release distributed via EIN Presswire and republished on regional outlets — aims to tackle one of the fastest-growing barriers to digital inclusion: tech anxiety among older adults. The announcement positions...

Microsoft’s October deadline for Windows 10 support has arrived like a ringing bell for an industry that—by several measures—wasn’t ready: large numbers of consumer and corporate endpoints still run Windows 10, many organisations face compatibility and budget constraints, and the safety net...

Windows 10 will stop receiving free security fixes on October 14, 2025 — and if your PC can’t take the free Windows 11 upgrade, you have five realistic paths forward: enroll in Extended Security Updates (ESU), buy or rent a new Windows 11 PC (including cloud PCs), perform an unsupported upgrade...

The Restart Project’s new “End of Windows 10” toolkit has sharpened a public campaign into an actionable playbook for community repair groups and activists — and its message is blunt: Microsoft’s hardware-gated Windows 11 transition risks driving hundreds of millions of still‑serviceable PCs...

Consumer Reports has formally asked Microsoft to keep providing free security updates for Windows 10 beyond the company’s announced October 14, 2025 end‑of‑support date, warning that the current one‑year, consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) plan and paid options will leave millions of...

Family Weekend at Baylor unfolded this year as a familiar campus ritual — food trucks, concerts, and a football kickoff — while simultaneously revealing an often-overlooked counter-narrative: for many international students the weekend is less a reunion than a careful juggling act of time zones...