Research ICT Africa published a new study assessing Internet access in ten African countries. It revealed that many African countries are far from global target since they do not have complementary policies required to harness new...
The international organisation for standardization (ISO) assembled a working group on drafting the cybersecurity standards around consumer's electronics to ensure the consumer privacy is embedded into the design. This standard is ...
Mexico's central bank confirmed that there was a cyber attack on Mexican financial institutions, in which the attackers siphoned around 300 million pesos from five institutions. According to the Governor of the Central Bank, the a...
The Toronto Declaration, calling for algorithms to respect human rights, was released on 16 May as part of the RightsCon 2018. The declaration highlights the obligation of governments and tech companies 'to prevent machine learnin...
The US Senate has voted in favour of overturning the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) decision to repeal net neutrality rules. In a 52-47 vote, the Senate approved ajoint resolution providing for 'congressional disapprova...
The Partnership on AI, founded in September 2016 by Amazon, DeepMind/Google, Facebook, IBM, and Microsoft with the aim to develop best practices on the challenges and opportunities in the field of artificial intelligence (AI),has ...
Government of India invited citizens to add comments regarding future regulation of Virtual Currencies (VC). Indian citizens are invited to add their comments on an open government portal mygov.in, by 31 May. Purpose of this consu...
In the midst of worldwide debates about Internet access and content, a groundbreaking five-year partnership between the UN Human Rights Office and Microsoft for the 'development and use of advanced technology designed to bett...
The Arbitration and Mediation Centre of the World Intellectual Property Organisation will become an alternative dispute resolution (ADR) provider for the .eu and .
Earlier this month, Thailand passed a law that prohibits online content that is 'contrary to public order or public morality' leading Thai Internet service providers (ISPs) to request Facebook to block 600 Facebook pages. On 12 Ma...
South Africa's Deputy Minister of Telecommunications, Hlengiwe Mkhize, and China's Vice Minister of Cyber Space Administration, Wang Xiujun, met in Durban to talk about cooperating in the area of ICT. The roundtable took the ...
The Electronic Government Agency in Tanzania has asked central governmental authorities in the country to cut costs by using Internet Protocol (IP) telephony services as their means of communication. According to the Agency, cited...