The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECE) and the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data (GPSDD) have announced a partnership that aims to strengthen Africa's data system in response to the Coronavirus...
The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) together with the UN Under Secretary-General will hold a series of webinars that will tackle digital cooperation in time of COVID-19. The objective of the online discussions is to a...
TheDubai Future Council on Artificial Intelligence held its first meeting in April 2019 and started discussions on how artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to 'enhance Dubai's status as a future global city'. Chaired by Omar S...
Among the outcomes of the Commonwealth Summit, held in April in London, is the Commonwealth Cyber Declaration. The Commonwealth reflects the diversity of global community including, small and big countries, developed and deve...
The World Bank has releasedThe Global Findex Database 2017 report, providing data on how individuals around the world save, borrow, make payments, and arrange risks. In its third edition, the report also includes data on the use o...
The Government of Canada and the Government of the French Republicissued a 'Joint Declaration on Cultural Diversity and the Digital Space'. The Declaration reaffirms the sovereign right of States to adopt policies and measures to ...
Michelle Bachelet Jeria, President of Chile, has released the first National Cybersecurity Policy. The objectives by 2022 include a risk management approach to preventing and reacting to incidents, including to protection of infor...
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) published a newFramework for assessing the differential pricing practices of Internet service providers (ISPs), through which it reinforced its commitment to n...
India's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has issued three sets of guidelines on the adoption and procurement of cloud services, service level agreement for procuring cloud services and contractual terms related t...
Ajit Pai, Chairman of the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) met with executives of several technology companies (Facebook, Cisco, Oracle, and Intel) to discuss the current net neutrality rules and his plans to change them...
The Internet Number Community (represented by the five Regional Internet Registries -RIRs)published an updated version (v5.1) of the Service Level Agreement (SLA) for the IANA numbering services. The SLA is meant to replace the cu...
Diplo's and GIP's Jovan Kurbalija will be elaborating on capacity building in digital policy at the upcoming WSIS Forum (High Level segment) held in Geneva in May. Full event details and programme is available. The Geneva Internet...