The City of Philadelphia, USA has announced an executive order and released a five-year plan to address the multifaceted barriers to digital access. The Digital Equity Plan identifies key goals to address affordability and availab...
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi invited the country's Information Technology and Energy sectors to identify and develop innovative ways of handling e-waste with the help of technology. PM Modi also laid emphasis on new initia...
Goran Marby, President and Chief Executive Officer of ICANN -the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers -sent a letter to Ukrainian authorities in response to their request that ICANN revoke Russian country code top-l...
Two California residents have been charged for allegedly creating and sharing child sexual material through the private "child pornography group" they ran on Kik messenger. The prosecutors have revealed that anyone interested to j...
The West African Monetary Agency (WAMA) received a grant of US$320, 535 from the African Development Bank to mainstream gender in the Economic Community of West African States' (ECOWAS) core digital financial services (DFS) regula...
Egypt has launched a digital campaign titled '#GameChangers' in order to engage the private sector in sustainability. The initiative was launched by the ministry of international cooperation and is part of its 'Global Partnerships...
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has delivered its judgment in C-746/18, Prokuratuur (Conditions d'acc
The Internet Address Registry for Latin America and the Caribbean (LACNIC), announced the creation of its Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT). CSIRT LACNIC will be a co-ordination hub for cybersecurity incidents in La...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has created a TikTok account in order to raise awareness on the coronavirus amongst the youth. On its account, the WHO posted a video explaining what the coronavirus is about and a second video ...
Amid the COVID-19 crisis, India declared a total lockdown, and schools were not excluded, leaving millions of children in poor and rural areas with no access to education. Indian authorities attempted to mitigate the situation thr...
The 'Stopping Harmful Offers on Platforms by Screening Against Fakes in E-commerce Act of 2020' (SHOP SAFE Act of 2020) was introduced into the US Congress. It will typically be considered by committee next before it is possibly s...
Highlighting the existing ambiguous laws and challenges in seeking justice for victims of online child sexual exploitation (OCSE), experts have urged members of the Pan African Parliament (PAP) to draft appropriate laws to p...