Crypto exchange Binance is blocking accounts of Russian clients targeted by sanctions. Ukrainian Vice Prime Minister Mykhailo Fedorov asked all major crypto exchanges to block the addresses of Russian users on his Twitter account,...
On 28 February, the fourth Global Standards Symposium (GSS-20) brought together -in Geneva and online -stakeholders from governments, the private sector, the technical community, academia, and civil society, to discuss the role of...
The Moscow Stock Exchange and Sberbank websites were knocked offline, allegedly by the Ukraine IT Army, that claimed responsibility in a Telegram post. Ukraine's deputy prime minister, Mykhailo Fedorov, responded to the Moscow Sto...
China's social media giants Weibo and Douyin removed 'inappropriate' Ukraine content over the weekend. Chinese social media giant Weibo has taken down over 4,000 posts that were showing any 'inappropriate' Ukrainian content. Douyi...
A group of Belorussian hackers claimed to have attacked the Belarusian railways on 27 February, according to a Google translation of the message posted on their Telegram channel. The hackers, who call themselves 'Cyber partisans' ...
Social media networks Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Google are imposing measures on Russian state media content. Meta, Facebook's parent company, is reviewing requests from several countries to completely restrict Russian offici...
Ukraine requested that the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) -a multistakeholder body that manages global internet domains and resources -take measures in response to the Russian operation in Ukraine...
On 28 February 2020, Vatican's Pontifical Academy for Life, Microsoft, IBM, the Food and Agriculture Organization, and the Italian government signed the Rome Call for AI Ethics, designed to 'support an ethical approach to art...
In collaboration with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU, GeSI, and the Science Based Targets Initiatives, the GSMA published a document entitled 'Guidance for ICT Companies Setting Science Based Targets' that aims to ...
UNCTAD's eTrade for Women initiative's first masterclass in Africa took place in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, from 26 to 28 February. An initiative by the eTrade for all partners, led by UNCTAD and supported by the government of the Neth...
The People's Bank of China postponed the development of a digital currency (DCEP) as a result of the coronavirus. The news was confirmed by the CEO of BankLedger, a company that claims to be involved in the development of DCEP. Th...
The US Senate voted to pass a bill restricting the use of federal funding for purchases from Chinese telecom giant Huawei. This bill had been passed in the House during December 2019. The bill also gives$1 billion to rural telecom...