Nigeria has lifted a ban on social networking site Twitter. The ban has been in place since June 2021 when the country ordered internet service providers to block access to the site. Kashifu Abdullahi, director general of the coun...
The Online Safety and Media Regulation (OSMR) in Ireland was launched on 12 January and is being welcomed by campaigners. The bill proposes to establish a new regulator called Media Commission replacing the Broadcastin...
The National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Egypt (NTRA) publishes the regulatory framework for delivering IoT services in Egypt. The framework aims to attract investments to build IoT networks and advanced application...
Vodafone UK has pledged 24 million GB of data to the Good Things Foundation's National Databank which is planned to connect 200,000 people for six months. The company plans to connect one million people living in digital poverty b...
The UK government has announced that the Alan Turin Institute, supported by the British Standards Institution and the National Physical Laboratory, will establish an AI Standards Hub aimed at increasing UK contribution to the deve...
The Google News Initiative (GNI) announced that it is launching its COVID-19 Vaccine Counter-Misinformation Open Fund and will make up to US$3 million available for the cause. It noted that the global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines ...
WhatsApp users in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are increasingly wary about the privacy of their data and are considering making the switch to Signal or Telegram messaging apps. These apps have become popular choices; however, so...
Uganda has ordered internet service providers to block social networks within its territory. As Ugandans prepare for the parliamentary and presidential elections, the ban comes amid an electoral process that has been marked by vio...
Cisco and a telecommunications operator for the residential and business market in Italy, EOLO, partnered to improve the latter's fixed wireless access network to extend its ultra-broadband connectivity to rural areas. This cooper...
Nauru President Lionel Aingimea and US Under Secretary Keith Krach agreed on the importance of securing telecommunications infrastructure and ensuring safe technology supply chains based on internationally accepted digital trust s...
Scientists at the Columbia University in New York, USA have used a gene editing technique to store digital data inside living bacteria. With the help of a clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR) adaptatio...
Over 50 civil society organisations have sent a letter to the European Commission demanding that clear regulatory red lines are introduced in the commission's upcoming legislative proposal on artificial intelligence (AI), to preve...