The Accenture 2020 Digital Health Consumer Survey found that the adoption of digital health tools slowed down, and even dropped in certain areas in the first three months of 2020. The report pointed out that security and privacy c...
The Commonwealth Health Report 2020 released by Commonwealth Business Communications, focuses on health tech that includes articles from experts on how tech can improve healthcare worldwide, how technology can fight infectiou...
Google announced 20 new chapters of its Women Will programme that was launched in 2014. Women Will already had chapters in Lagos, Abuja, Ibadan, Nairobi, Cotonou, Kampala, and Jinja. Google said some of the new chapters in South A...
Leigh College announced that it will open a Digital Skills Academy including a laboratory with walking robots in September. The academy has been launched as a response to current research findings of skills shortages in the IT ind...
The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that it finalised a new set of rules to ensure safe and secure access to patient health data. As part of President Trump's MyHealthEData initiative, the rules are set ...
According to IAPP, the Croatian Presidency of the Council of the European Union has released its latest ePrivacy Regulation proposal draft. This draft includes modifications on articles that cover the protection of end users' term...
According to Venture Beat, Tel Aviv-based Mine has launched a new tool for Internet users to submit right to be forgotten requests, under the EU's GDPR. According to a company spokesperson, since its launch 'Mine has sent 20,000 R...
The European Commission has announced plans to form two expert groups in the areas of artificial intelligence (AI) and liability and new technologies, and has launched two calls for experts to join these groups TheHigh-Level...
In its submission to the UK Culture, Media and Sport committee's inquiry into fake news, The British News Media Association (NMA) calls for an 'urgent investigation into the impact of Google, Facebook, and a digital advertisi...
The Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that the right to be forgotten does not extend to company registers. The case involved the director of an Italian company whose properties failed to sell, presumably due to the comp...
InFour reasons internet access is a women's issue Stephanie Maclellan explains why we must work to close the digital gender gap. Ms. Maclellan states that 'Education gaps, lower income and cultural norms can all contribu...
The Internet Society (ISOC) has launched a campaign aimed at recognising women who contribute to the development of the Internet, 'Shining the Light' on 'women who are using the Internet to innovate and make a difference in people...