The Government of Ethiopia has published regulations for licensing of mobile money services. Ethiopia has since 2013 been served by one mobile money service, M-Birr, which is a partnership of five financial institutions. Lib...
The Government of South Africa has published regulations to establish an electronic COVID-19 tracking and tracing system. The system will have a database where anyone tested for COVID-19 will have their identity details registered...
The UK government will publish two sets of location data under an open government licence that will be accessible from July 2020. The Unique Property Reference Numbers (UPRNs) and Unique Street Reference Numbers (USRNs) are eight ...
A plea has been filed in the Supreme Court of India asking the court to give directions to authorities of Jammu and Kashmir for restoring 4G Internet in the Union Territory (UT) in the wake of COVID-19. According to reports, the p...
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said that over a hundred perpetrators had been exposed over misinforming the public about the Coronavirus. In addition, numerous Internet links used for criminal purposes as well as bank acco...
An EU consortium led by Germany's Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute for telecoms is working on smartphone proximity-tracing tools that comply with EU privacy rules. The newly unveiled Pan-European Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tr...
African e-commerce platform, Jumia, has launched a contactless delivery of prepaid orders on its platform to boost efforts to ensure the safety of their consumers, agents and partners during the COVID-19 pandemic. According to a r...
Internet rights groups in Pakistan have warned that the digital divide in Pakistan has the potential to cause more inequalities as the COVID-19 pandemic pushes individuals and entities to shift to online work and education. The gr...
The government of Ireland is planning to release a phone tracker app to fight the outbreak of COVID-19. The app is meant to inform users whether or not they have been in contact with individuals who contracted the virus. According...
The UN Human Rights (UNHR) Committee on the Rights of the Child plans to draft a general comment on children's rights in relation to the digital environment. The committee isinviting comments on the concept note of the gener...
The government of Antigua and Barbuda has finalised its decision to launch their cryptocurrency exchange. Government officials at St. John's believe that this move will make significant contributions to the nation's trea...
In March 2018, the Department of Motor Vehicles in California, the USA, announced the adoption ofregulations outlining the conditions under which autonomous vehicles could be tested and operated on public roads without a safety dr...