Matt Wall

Nov 26, 2024 | vodafone.co.uk | Ally Stevens |Alan Lu |Matt Wall |Padraig Belton

Ivan Donn, who sold the company’s first phone in September 1984, looks back at the company’s past and speaks about his hopes for the future. Technology, and the pace at which it evolves and changes, can be intimidating and disorienting for some people. Not so for Ivan Donn. Now an independent telecoms consultant, Ivan started his career back in 1984 as one of the earliest salespeople at what was then a small start-up – Vodafone.

Sep 16, 2024 | ukstories.microsoft.com | Matt Wall

Vodafone has extended its strategic agreement with Microsoft to roll out Microsoft 365 Copilot AI software to up to 68,000 Vodafone employees across multiple countries. The generative AI (GenAI) tool will be implemented across the organisation to improve productivity, innovation, and digital efficiency further. It will free up time spent on monotonous tasks to allow employees to focus on more varied and interesting work, enhancing services and supporting Vodafone’s 350 million customers worldwide.

May 5, 2024 | medium.com | Matt Wall

There was a new meta-analysis on psychedelic therapy for depression published in the British Medical Journal last week, which was immediately (and rightly) torn apart by commentators on twitter. Problems with it seem to include mistaking standard errors for standard deviations, counting different end-points from the same study as separate studies, and others.

Apr 14, 2024 | medium.com | Matt Wall

Matt Wall·Follow5 min read·Apr 14, 2024--Profit margins at academic publishers are *insane*. Cory Doctorow is a polymathic presence on the internet; as a novelist, journalist, tech-evangelist, and general all-round liberal good egg, his contribution to modern internet culture has been enormous. Perhaps his most important recent work though, has been developing and promoting the concept of ‘enshittification’.

Mar 22, 2024 | vodafone.co.uk | Mark Davison |Matt Wall |Alan Lu |Nicki Lyons

Being online can a lifeline when it comes to saving time and money, so no-one should have to live without it. When was the last time you were without an internet connection? For many of us, being online is a vital part of everyday life. So much so that it can often be taken for granted. But there are 1.7 million people and businesses in the UK struggling along without such connectivity. This digital divide, or digital exclusion, creates significant and ever-growing inequality.