The African Development Bank, by means of its Africa Digital Inclusion Facility has decided to allocate US$1.3 million in order to improve women's access to digital financial services, including loans and micro-insurance. The fund...
Uber backed down and promised to compensate drivers and delivery workers with coronavirus a few days after announcing that it would not pay any sick leave. The ride-hailing company will pay drivers and delivery workers who are und...
Uber announced that it is about to test a new rate policy in ten US cities. Uber will increase the fare of rides close to city centres by 5% and decrease trips from outer areas by 10%. The new policy aims to shift rides outs...
The government of Egypt has started setting a strategy on e-waste management and has launched a new solid waste collection system in different governorates. According to the new system, citizens will not discard old computers, mob...
Former US presidential candidate, lawyer, and entrepreneur Andrew Yang launched Humanity Forward, a non-profit organisation focused on the impact of technology on labour and inequality. The first measure of Humanity Forward was to...
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The U.S state of Colorado introduced the digital token act which will permit the transactions of digital tokens. Digital token act define the term 'digital token' in the sense of blockchain technology. According to this legislatio...
On the occasion of the International Women's Day, theInternational Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and the World Food Programme (WFP) discoursed how women empowerment and g...
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is continuing itswork on determining how the organisation and the generic top-level domain (gTLD) registries and registrars could comply with ICANN policies and contr...
WikiLeaks released over 8000 pages of confidential documents of the US government dating from 2013 to 2016, that provide detailed description of the CIA ability to hack the phones, computers and smart devices. The leaks, dubbed "V...
Ensuring an Internet free from gender-based violence enhances freedom of expression, as it allows women to fully participate in all areas of life and is integral to women's empowerment', according to Dubravka Simonovic, UN Special...
Puerto Rico has published a fiscal plan that includes a number of tax reform measures, aimed at stabilising its revenue and solving budget deficits. One of the proposed reforms is an Internet sales tax. The government of...