Reuters reported that the Supreme Administrative Court of Sweden dismissed an appeal by Huawei against its exclusion from the country's 5G network spectrum auction. The court allows the Swedish Post and Telecom Authority (PTS) to ...
'Change Game', a video game developed by EIT-Climate-KIC and the CMCC Foundation, aims to raise awareness on climate change-related issues such as water management, energy consumption, and natural disasters. In 'Change Game', game...
According to the Biden Presidential Inaugural Committee, tech companies, namely, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Uber featured among the companies that made donations to Biden's inaugural ceremonies. The companies, together with so...
The programme director for Jamaica's National Identification System (NIDS), Warren Vernon has assured citizens that the national digital identification database will be encrypted. He also stated that facial images and finger...
Research ICT Africa published a new policy brief that looks at how technology, such as artificial intelligence (AI), can be deployed to scale social protection programmes and to reduce corruption in the disbursement of social prot...
A great number of African youth is using mobile money for online gambling, according to a survey done by Geopoll. The survey interviewed young people aged between 18-35 who have access to a mobile phone in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania,...
The EU has issued a statement in support of the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime (Budapest Convention), highlighting it as the global standard for facilitating the fight against cybercrime. EU underlined that it did not ...
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) convened a conference on Modernising Agriculture through Innovative Technologies on 15 January 2020 in Hyderabad, Pakistan. The conference aimed at showcasing the tran...
According to the BBC, Google has announced a timeline for implementing new privacy standards that will limit third-party use of cookies. In a blogpost, Google confirmed that its web-browser Chrome will 'limit insecure cross-site t...
Ant Financial Services, formerly known as Alipay, will hold the first fintech inclusion summit. The summit, which will take place in Shanghai from 23-24 April 2019 is expected to attract 20,000- 30,000 attendees. It will feature d...
The United States and China signed an 'Economic and Trade Agreement Between the United States of America and the People's Republic of China' known as Phase One US-China trade deal. The agreement covers several areas, including int...
The UN special advocate of the Secretary-General of the United Nations for Inclusive Financing for Development, Queen Maxima willattendthe World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos this month. She will hold meetings with various stakeho...