Surveillance company Palantir is marketing COVID-19 tracing technologies to governments in Europe, Bloomberg reports. The technologies use mobile phone data to analyse movement of people. They can also predict staff needs and supp...
The Ethiopian government has announced the restoration of Internet and voice services in several areas of the Oromo region in Ethiopia. The announcement contained in a news report brings to an end the shutdown of Internet services...
A Serbian journalist was detained by police on charges of causing public unrest after she reported about a shortage of protective medical equipment available for staff at a medical centre in Vojvodina province. She was released th...
Russia's authorities have launched a smartphone app to track people who have been ordered to stay home because of the outbreak. The app will initially be limited to citizens who have already been tested positive to COVID-19 and wi...
TCO Development, the organisation behind the global sustainability certification TCO Certified, a sustainability certification for IT products, has developed a solution that would give purchasing organisations the opportunity...
A blockchain project focused on streamlining the agriculture value chain has been launched in Haiti. The Ministry of Industry and Commerce of Haiti and the business and investment development project have selected Agriledger as th...
Reuters published a report revealing that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) hired American hackers -formerly employed by US intelligence agencies -to spy on politicians, media figures, activists, and journalists. According to the rep...
The 'Protection from online Falsehood and Manipulation bill' has been submitted to the Singapore Parliament for examination on 1 April 2019. The draft is proposing to have government monitors who would order removal or force corre...
The West African coast countries were affected by the ACE subsea cable cut near Noukachott in Mauritania. Sierra Leone, Mauritania, Liberia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, and Gambia experienced connectivity outages depending on their dis...
Starting from 1 April 2017 Japan will implement the law which regulates the status of cryptocurrencies (such as Bitcoin) as a legal tender. This regulation recognizes Bitcoin as a method of payment, but not currency. The bill will...
MIT's Online Education Policy Initiative published its final report on 'Online education: a catalyst for higher education reforms'. It outlines the implications of online learning for higher education from a multidisciplinary pers...
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has approved of subsidies for about 40 million Americans to make broadband Internet more affordable for low-income citizens. The plan was adopted as 'consumers need Internet acce...