Huawei Malaysia has launched its ASEAN Academy, a training module focused on digital empowerment of 50,000 Malaysian talents over the next five years. The academy will offer more than 3,000 ICT courses involving 100 skilled traine...
EURACTIV published the event report titled 'A man's world: Challenging gender stereotypes in the tech sector'. It summarises the issues top female leaders in the business, political, and tech worlds have raised about gender equali...
A new partnership between UNICEF and Airtel Africa will ensure the continuity of learning for about 133 million children across 13 sub-Saharan African countries affected by school closures due to the Coronavirus outbreak.&nbs...
Estonia is reported to have been testing digital immunity passports, developed by founders of Transferwise and Bolt, to ensure a safe return to workplaces as the country starts to ease Coronavirus lockdown measures. A digital immu...
According to ZDNet, the Brazilian Senate has reinstated the original timescale for the introduction of the new data protection legislation in 2020. As part of a remote voting session, the new data protection law is expected to ent...
Germany's Federal Constitutional Court (BVerfG) ruled that privacy rights enshrined in the German constitution extend to foreigners living abroad, and cover their online data. According to the New York Times, this decision orders ...
The number of mobile money accounts globally rose to over 1 billion in 2019. This is reported in GSMA's state of mobile money report for 2019. Some trends noted in 2019 include an increase in digitisation of mobile money, where mo...
Chinese tech company Alibaba has announced an investment of US$1.4 billion into an artificial intelligence (AI) and Internet of things (IoT) system centred around its Tmall Genie smart speaker. Tmall Genie can interact with users ...
Experts explain that disinformation about COVID-19 is now widespread in Central Asia. Because of poor attempts from Governments to tackle this issue, countries that already had restrictions to freedom of speech now also face an in...
Pope Francis addressed the Foreign Press Association at the Vatican on Saturday, urging journalists to reject fake news and continue reporting on the troubling conditions of suffering people who no longer make it into daily headli...
An all-girls robotics team from Ghana, Team Acrobot,won the World Robofest Championship held in the United States (U.S.), leaving behind teams from the U.S., Mexico, Egypt, and South Korea, among others. Team Acrobot dominated all...
UK's Digital Secretary Matt Hancock has announced new plans to create regulation to ensure that 'the UK is the safest place in the world to be online'. According to the British government, there is a lack of sufficient oversight o...