EthSwitch Share Company, an initiative led by National Bank of Ethiopia, was granted US$2.33 million by the Board of Directors of the African Development Bank to modernise its payments infrastructure. The project aims at facilitat...
United Group, a telecoms and media company in several Balkan countries, is considering replacing parts of or all of the Huawei equipment to alternative providers, seeking to align itself with the US government. Many mobile operato...
The European Patent Office has issued a decision in case of applicant Bentley Systems UK Limited, stating that computer-implemented simulations are patentable, but the applicant must show that the invention addresses a technical i...
Epic Games has filed a lawsuit at the Federal Court in Australia against Google, expanding its ongoing battle over commissions charged in app stores. Epic Games is alleging that Google has abused its control over the Android...
The Information Transparency and Personal Data Control Act, a data protection legislation on the federal level has been introduced in the US Congress. This bill would require the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to intorduce regulat...
AquaConnect consortium led by Prof. Huub Rijnaarts from Wageningen University will receive
The Russian government announced that it is slowing access to Twitter, given the platform's failure to remove illegal content. Russia's telecommunications regulator already started to reduce the speed at which Twitter webpage load...
The Eastern Caribbean Securities Exchange (ECSE) and BlockStation partnered to pilot the trading of digital assets in 2020. These assets include tokenised initial ublic Offering (IPOs); also known as security token offerings (STOs...
The Indian Department of Science and Technology (DST) and Swedish Energy Agency agreed to establish a fund for the research and development of smart grids. The objective of the co-operation is to tackle challenges in the field of ...
Digital Solutions for the Urban Poor is a new GSMA report that investigates how digital solutions can improve urban service delivery and provide solutions to underlying challenges related to the unprecedented pace of urbanisation....
The UK National Health Service (NHS) announced initiatives to lead people to the NHS information about the coronavirus outbreak by partnering with Google, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. People will be directed to verified guida...
On 10 March 2020, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) hosted a roundtable on the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on freedom of expression, organised by the OSCE Representative on Freedom of Media...