DITCh Plastic Network, a network of organisations promoting the use of digital technology and circular economy has launched the DITCh Plastic initiative to combat plastic waste pollution in Africa. The network relies on digital to...
In an interview with Verge, the former chief security officer for Facebook and director of the Stanford Internet Observatory, Alex Stamos, expressed his concern regarding the role of TikTok in the upcoming election. Especially sin...
According to NextGov, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has relaxed restrictions on the collection and protection of patient health data regarding COVID-19.In a notification, the HHS stated that the HHS Of...
Google has released version 83 of its Chrome browser, which includes several new features and enhanced privacy controls. Among them, there is an option allowing users to enable support for the DNS-over-HTTPs (DoH) protocol. This c...
The Committee on Public Safety of the California State Assemblyapproved a bill prohibiting first responders from taking unauthorised pictures and videos of accident sites and crime scenes. The Assembly Bill AB 2655 on the Invasion...
Greenpeace has published a report titled ''How tech companies are helping big oil profit from climate destruction' where it explored the role of tech giants such as Google, Microsoft and Amazon in provision of cloud services to oi...
In collaboration with the Kacific Broadband Satellites Group (Kacific), the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is fostering a resilient communications network that can sustain disasters and improve connectivity to uphold ...
E-commerce retailers and online marketplaces selling goods to consumers in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have been called upon in an article to take note of the impact of the recently published Executive Regulations to the Saudi E-C...
The ICANN board of directors haveresolved to approve the .amazon gTLD application and directed the ICANN org to continue processing of the .AMAZON application that includes 'publication of the Public Intere...
The National Identification Authority of Ghana began a mass registration programme at the end of April 2019. The programme is currently ongoing in the Greater Accra region and is scheduled to run till June 2019. Ghana introduced e...
Senegal's Agency for Universal Health Coverage (CMU) has launched a digital health information management platform, SUNUCMU.com. The platform is currently handling digital payments. It also integrates social welfare programmes and...
Nigeria is implementing a presidential directive requiring harmonisation of all data held in government registries such as driving licences, ID cards and passports. Government officials reported that the body charged with administ...