The Belgian Development Agency (Enabel) in partnership with SES signed a framework agreement to deliver end-to-end satellite connectivity infrastructure including antennae, satellite bandwidth, and installation to 20 countries acr...
Following the travel ban introduced by Australian authorities in response to the outbreak of the coronavirus, China has decided to relax its Internet restriction in order to allow some 100,000 students to study online. The decisio...
Amazon and Flipkart are pushing back against a proposed Indian tax on the online e-commerce market. The two tech industries are asking the indian government to scale back the tax to be paid by third party resellers on their platfo...
The second substantive meeting of the UN Open Ended Working Group (OEWG) took place in New York from 10-14 February. On rules, norms, and principles, a visible polarisation occurred between delegates to those who stood for ...
According to a news report, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has invested$9 million on high speed broadband Internet access in 9 rural communities in Tennessee. An official of USDA said in a statement that the objective o...
Researchers at the Princeton's University Engineering School have developed a new approach to obtain fairer data sets containing images of people, and thus address challenges related to bias in artificial intelligence (AI). T...
The Next Generation Internet (NGI), an initiative by the European Commission has through its policy and strategy entity, NGI Forward, published a report on digital trustmarks. Digital trustmarks are an established mechanism that, ...
Ring, the Amazon-owned maker of smart doorbells and cameras, has announced changes to its privacy settings, following concerns that customers' personal information were shared with Facebook, Google and other parties without users'...
The Washington State Senate has adopted its version of The Washington Privacy Act after a 46 to 1 vote. The bill is now going to be discussed by the state House. For Senator Carlyle, who sponsored the bill in the Senate, this legi...
The Integrated Health Information systems (IHiS) in Singapore is reported to be piloting iThermo, an AI-powered temperature screening tool, to identify those having or showing symptoms of fever. Amid the growing Coronavirus threat...
The European Union has sent a confidential letter to G20 asking the International Organisation to work hard in 2020 so as to reach a common tariff rule to tax the tech companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon et Twitter. In the let...
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has expressed his support to international reformsthat would require Silicon Valley tech giants to pay more tax in Europe. At the Munich Security Conferenceon Friday, February 14, Zuckerberg said he ac...