The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) published a study on Harnessing rapid technological change for inclusive and sustainable development which explores ways to promote frontier technologies work for all...
According to a report, Romania's government has approved a law that aims to exclude Huawei from the future 5G mobile network. The draft proposals stated telecommunications companies may not be considered in the country based on ri...
According to a report, Spain's general secretary of digital health, Alfredo Gozalez, announced that the country will not require travelers from Europe to quarantine or take a COVID-19 test upon arrival if they have the Digital Gre...
According to a news report, the government of Pakistan has blocked various social media platforms in the country after days of anti-French protests in the country by radical Islamists who opposed cartoons considered to be blasphem...
Reacting to the leaked information of Facebook planning to create an Instagram for children, several NGOs and organisations such as Center for Digital Democracy and Norwegian Cancer Society have written an open letter to Facebook ...
Following the leak of the European Commission's draft legislation on artificial intelligence (AI), two groups of European Parliament members (MEPs) have sent letters to the Commission calling for a ban on biometric mass surveillan...
The Italian data protection authority (DPA) has issued an opinion on the Sari Real Time system submitted for examination by the country's Ministry of Interior, stating that the system 'would create a form of indiscriminate/mass su...
The UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) has released the Digital and Sustainable Regional Integration Index and Indicator Framework (DigiSII1.0), that seeks to develop a global indicator framework fo...
TikTok has added a new parental control feature called 'Family Pairing' in the USA that will allow parents to link their child's accounts to their own. Through the feature parents will be able to set screen time limits, set restri...
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and the Public Interest Registry (PIR) have agreed on a new deadline for ICANN to review the proposed .org registry sale to equity firm Ethos Capital. ICANN...
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) released its first digital strategy for 2020
The tech giant Microsoft has announced a new sustainability initiative that is expected to address the issues of biodiversity, and ecosystem protection and preservation worldwide. The decision was announced by Microsoft President ...