The US State Department and the Far North District Council in New Zealand unveiled a new partnership to fund 'Connected Northland,' a new program aimed at providing flexible digital training and job placement assistance to communi...
US legislators re-introduced a bill in Congress aiming to help small news organisations to collectively negotiate with tech platform giants, called The Journalism Competition and Preservation Act. Like in other countries previousl...
The US administration has set additional limits of licensing for companies to sell to the Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, US subsidiary of the CHinese company. According to Reuters, the restrictions relate to supplying items that can ...
The European Union (EU) Commission has released a communication titled '2030 Digital Compass: the European way for the Digital Decade' that outlines the EU's ambition to pursue digitalisation policies that empower individuals and ...
Australia's Charities Crisis Cabinet (CCC) has issued a letter to the prime minister and Digital Economy Minister Senator in order to tackle the growing digital divide in Australia. In the call, they requested for the creation of ...
The largest identity event in the Global South, ID4Africa, has been postponed to 28-30 October due to the coronavirus pandemic. The event was originally planned to take place between 2-4 June in Marrakech, Morocco. ID4D brings tog...
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) has filed a case against Facebook over non-compliance to the Australian Privacy Act 1988. In the case registered, the OAIC claims that Facebook disclosed per...
The Australian information commissioner has filed legal action against Facebook in the alleged privacy breach of 300,000 Australians. The Australian commissioner had previously launched an investigation to determine whether Facebo...
Among Nigeria's top ten banks, Unity Bank has introduced unstructured supplementary service data (USSD) in three of Nigeria's popular local languages, Yoruba, Igbo, and Hausa. USSD is a protocol used in mobile communications to co...
The European Commission and the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy have released a proposal entitled 'Towards a comprehensive Strategy with Africa' for a new strategy, where among other things, they tackle...
Following the recommendations of the member states at the Forum on AI in Africa on 12-13 December 2018 in Morocco, the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) launched a survey to assess artificial intelligen...
Several Egyptian authorities suspended biometric identification systems following the coronavirus pandemic. Attorney General General Hamada al-Sawy announced that fingerprint biometric attendance systems for justice sector officer...