During the Huawei Middle East Digital Transformation Webinar 2020, Huawei kicked off the new series AirEngine Wi-Fi 6 and the Huawei CloudCampus solution in the Middle East, aiming at transforming enterprise campus networks. 'Digi...
The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) and Microsoft have launched a global learning platform called The Learning Passport to help children and youth affected by COVID-19 continue their education at home. Initially this...
The US Office of the National Coordination for Health Information Technology (ONC) issued an enforcement discretion to relax ONC's 21st Century Cures Act: Interoperability, Information Blocking' and ONC's 'Health IT Certification ...
Privacy International (PI) has published a report highlighting ten data exploitative tactics that the opposition to sexual and reproductive rights is using in the digital sphere to delay or cut back access to reproductive healthca...
The European People's Party (EPP), European Parliament's largest political group, stated that the controversial Pan-European Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing (PEPP-PT) project provides a good example of how an EU COVID-19 mobi...
According to the Guardian, France has become the first country to call publicly for Apple and Google to weaken privacy protections around contact tracing, after acknowledging that its plans would require changes to smartphone oper...
According to the Thomson Reuters Foundation, Dutch students have accused universities of violating their privacy by using monitoring software to prevent cheating in exams being conducted online. Several universities have started u...
As 191 countries have closed schools and switched to online learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it has become evident that a huge number of children remain deprived of education. The main reason for not joining online...
The finance and information and communication technology (ICT) ministers, ICT regulators, and CEOs of telecom and technology companies from around the world participated in a virtual workshop organised by the World Bank, the Inter...
In the context of COVID-19, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) released guidelines to clarify the conditions and principles for the proportionate use of location data and contact tracing tools. The guidelines are intended&n...
The Israeli parliament altered a government bill which authorised the police to track cell phones of all people that need to be quarantined due to possible Coronavirus infection. According to the changes, tracking will be applied ...
RIPE Network Coordination Centre (RIPE NCC) -the Regional Internet Registry for Europe, the Middle East and parts of Central Asia -has published a report examining the Internet landscape in eight countries and economies in Southea...