During her visit to Nigeria, the European Commission Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager announced that the European Union (EU) will provide a
South Korea's foreign ministry has announced that it will host a forum with Latin America and the Caribbean on digital cooperation. The event is expected to tackle issues such as digital governance, cybersecurity and 5G networks. ...
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) convened a virtual roundtable on its Emergency Broadband Benefit (EBB) program that tackled some relevant questions including how to communicate the EBB program to eligible consumers ...
The United Nations Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) and the International Telecommunication Union's (ITU) Giga initiative published a case study on the Plan Ceibal project, which has been operating since 2007 to provide children...
GSMA released a policy note that explores the relationship between mobile money regulation and usage which hinges on data from the Mobile Money Regulatory Index and the Global Findex Database 2017 and covers almost 50,000 individu...
The Australian government has announced that there has been significant progress in the negotiations with Google and Facebook to pay domestic media companies for news. This comes after the Australian treasurer held talks with...
Facebook announced it is limiting content posted by profiles operated by Myanmar's military. The platform alleged that these profiles have continually spread misinformation since the army seized power and jailed civilian leaders o...
According to the Financial Times, the European Commission is set to allow data to continue to flow freely from the EU to the UK after concluding to an adequate level of protection for personal information. The draft decision, seen...
Since the 2017 Council of Europe (CoE) has been growing its partnership framework with internet companies aimed at ensuring respect of human rights, democracy, and the rule of law online. The framework was joined by another five c...
The Avanti Communications Group, a satellite data communications service provider, and MainOne, a connectivity and data centre solution company in West Africa, have partnered to increase broadband penetration in Nigeria.
The Court of Rome has ruled that Facebook will have to pay fines for committing copyright infringement by making RTI protected work available to the public via hyperlinks. The court relied on the previous European Court of Justice...
An American multinational investment bank J.P. Morgan Chase & Co issued a statement on 14 February that they created their digital coin named JPM Coin. Bank's digital coin is based on a blockchain technology and will serve the...