Under the slogan 'towards 100% digital government', the United Arab Emirates' (UAE) Telecommunications and Digital Government Regulatory Authority (TDRA) published the UAE Digital Transformation Enablers Report which pinpoints the...
A research undertaken by eSafety Commissioner in Australia to identify the risks faced by children online found that six out of ten children were exposed to harmful content online (such as violent sexual material, self harm and un...
A government-backed research announced a finding that Australia's nationwide contact tracing app unhelpful for the country's response for the COVID-19 pandemic. The study was funded by Australia's National Health and Medical Resea...
To keep children safe online, a plan by the Labor party in Australia proposes to encourage children to earn a digital licence under the eSmart Digital Licence program. If elected, Labor proposes to roll it out nationally in school...
Indian officials from the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (I&B) met with Google, Twitter and Facebook and criticised them for not proactively removing what they described as fake news on their platforms. The Indian go...
Huawei revealed that it will collaborate with the Kenyan government to overcome the digital divide in the country by building advanced infrastructure. 'We will continue to work with governments and telecommunication companie...
A court in Beijing accepted a lawsuit filed by ByteDance against Tencent Holdings over alleged monopoly practices. ByteDance claimed that Tencent was limiting access to content from Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, on its We...
The Africa Data Centers Association (ADCA) is an membership-driven organisation which aims to help members with challenges such as data sovereignty, bandwidth costs, latency, and IT computing power. They disclosed that 'Africa's d...
The Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources of the Government of Australia published a national blockchain roadmap. The document aims to set the national strategy regarding a blockchain technology roadmap for the nex...
As a preparatory measure toward digital taxation, India has introduced a provisionmaking foreign platforms that streams, advertises, or sells goods to an Indian IP address taxable in the country. The purpose of this provision is t...
Henri Verdier, Ambassador for Digital Affairs in the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs has sent a letter to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) expressing concerns over the proposed sale of t...
The Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources of the government of Australia published the national blokchain roadmap. The document aims to set the national strategy regarding blockchain technology. Roadmap outlines th...