The UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) published a new report that explores the opportunities and challenges that policymakers and development partners have to promote the frontiers of inclusive inn...
In his keynote speech at CES 2021, Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg underpinned the fundamental role of 5G in closing the digital divide and promoting digital inclusion in 2021 by improving use cases (i.e. telemedicine and remote learnin...
According to Euronews, Turkey's competition authority has opened an investigation into WhatsApp over a new update that requires users to share more data with its parent company, Facebook. Due to the update, WhatsApp users based ou...
According to Singapore's National Environment Agency (NEA), a new e-waste collection system that is meant to include scheduled collection and ad-hoc doorstep collection services. Collection services will be operated by the Alba Gr...
A new government-run instant digital payment system was revealed by the Pakistani government to promote financial inclusion and government revenue in the country where only a fraction of economic transactions occur on the books. T...
The World Economic Forum (WEF) released a paper that addresses the question 'why 5G can help us build back better and benefit everyone' aiming at identifying specific opportunities to ensure 5G fulfils its role as a premier enabli...
The Egyptian government has selected 16 small and mid-sized enterprises (SMEs) to roll out 15 digital projects within government bodies in four areas: quality management and testing; GG Web Services; content digitisation, analysis...
The City of Philadelphia, USA and the Mayor's Fund for Philadelphia launched a request for proposal (RFP) to quantify the number of households that are without internet or rely on unstable, low-bandwidth options. The RFP, which is...
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that Israel and pharmaceutical giant Pfizer reached an agreement that will enable all Israel citizens aged over 16 to receive the vaccine by the end of March 2021. In return, Is...
The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) is requiring members of the public whose national identification numbers (NIN) were generated through a bank verification number (BVN) to verify their NIN by visiting NIMC offices...
The Fairness, Accountability, Transparency (FAT)/Asia conference was held at Digital Hub Asia, in partnership with the Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence Initiative and Konrad Adenauer Stiftung. Digital Hub Asia itse...
The French Appeal Court ruled a former driver of Uber was effectively an employee of the ride-hailing company. The driver sued Uber after having his account deactivated, depriving him of new reservations. The court decided that hi...