Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorovclaimed in a Telegram postthat Binance, one of the largest global cryptocurrency exchanges, has stopped allowing Russians to perform transactio...
A report by GSMA shows that registered mobile wallets in Africa have reached 621 million, which translates to 70% of the world's$1 trillion mobile money value. This is a 17% increase from 562 million in 2020. Noting that the COVID...
Belarus' Council of Ministers adopted the decree No. 267 that centralises health information systems in the country. The objective of centralisation is to improve the availability and quality of medical care. The centralised healt...
TikTok has removed more than 500,000 accounts in Italy following an intervention by the Italian Data Protection Authority. In January this year the regulator had ordered the video sharing social network to recheck the age of...
'Sand dollar' is the nickname of the Bahaman central bank digital currency (CBDC). The Bahamas is among the first countries to introduce the CBDC. As the Economist discusses, CBDCs are likely to spread worldwide. This opens many p...
At the inaugural meeting of African ministers for gender and women's affairs, the topic of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic was discussed, with a particular focus on mitigating the impacts of the crises on women and girls. On the top...
Australia's e-safety commissioner, Julie Inman Grant has said that child abusers have created and shared an online grooming manual describing ways to manipulate and exploit children online during the COVID-19 pandemic. With more c...
On 13 May 2020, Alphabet Loon and Vodacom signed an agreement that Loon's balloon powered Internet solution will be used to expand Vodacom's network to inaccessible areas using a network of cell phone towers floating at 20km above...
The UK's NHSX AI Lab, a joint unit of the Department of Health and Social Care, the National Health Service (NHS) England, and the NHS Improvement, recently published a report, titled A Buyer's Checklist for AI in Health and Care....
The EU's eHealth Network published a guideline for the interoperability framework for contact tracing apps, which EU member states have launched or are planning to launch to combat the Coronavirus. The guideline was developed as t...
The European Commission issued a statement to harmonise an approach for safe and efficient use of contact tracing apps across the EU. The commission stated that voluntarily installed tracing apps can contribute to the gradual lift...
The French parliament adopted a controversial legislation on hate speech (Avia Law), requiring online platforms to remove flagged hateful content within 24 hours, and child abuse and terrorist propaganda within 1 hour. In case the...