Doctoral student Martin Hilbert was invited by the United Nations International Telecommunication Union to give a speech at the World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Meeting in Mauritius, Africa, at the beginning of December. The United Nations became interested in the results of several of his recently published studies, in which he measured the world's technological capacity to communicate information in bits per second. He has also been invited to a workshop in Canada at the end of November titled “Exploring the Digital Sharing Economy at the Bottom of the Pyramid” by the International Development Research Centre.

The workshop is intended for discussion among experts with the purpose of brain storming about future potential working lines and possible project areas in Latin America.

Related links: That Giant Sifting Sound (The Economist, video animation)

Information Societies or “ICT equipment societies”? Measuring the digital information processing capacity of a society in bits and bytes (The Information Society, 26(3))

The world’s technological capacity to store, communicate and compute information (Science, 332(6025), 60 -65)

Ph.D. student calculates how much information is in the world