According to Annalisa Merelli in Quartz Media, within hours of Obama taking power in the USA, the White House website listed 20 priority issues. Since the Trump inauguration, the US White House website shows a list of six. Notably...
The continuing government Internet ban in English-speaking areas of Cameroon is paralysing banks and affecting the economy. The ban was implemented in an attempt to quash opposition, but the lack of Internet has affected business ...
The recent Cisco 2017 Annual Cybersecurity Report suggests that spam accounted for 65 percent of the total email volume in 2016. A review of statistical data from the last ten years shows that 2016 spam volume is close to the reco...
The Council of European National Top-Level Domain Registries (CENTR) has recently published itsDomainWire Global TLD Stat Report for the fourth quarter of 2016. The report, which covers the global status and registration trends in...
India's Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has presented the 2017-18 Union Budget, which is characterised by a focus on digitisation, infrastructure, and rural India. A number of digital policy-related proposals can be highlighted:
As every month,GIP Digital Watchbrings you the monthly summary of developments in digital politics, with focus on Geneva, in the Geneva Digital Watch newsletter. You can browse through the latest issue at this link. Special focus ...
The Thai government has tried to convince Facebook and Line to delete content that it presumes to be 'harmful to peace and order'. The Thai court has ordered the removal of the content, as it would '[damage] the country ...
The European Commission's Vera Jourov
The UK Science and technology parliamentary committee has published itsreport on the draft Investigatory Powers Bill (known as ''Snooper's charter') -the bill through which the government is trying to expand intelligence and law e...
According to the New York Times, Microsoft is testing whether data centers can operate hundreds of meters below the surface of the ocean in order to prevent computer services from overheating. Moving the gear into the ocean might ...
In a project codenamed SkyBender, Google is testing solar-powered drones that are meant to transmit 5G Internet. Ultimately, Google aims to develop 'thousands of high altitude 'self-flying aircraft' delivering Internet access arou...
Samsung Samsung expects the sales of the Galaxy S23 Ultra smartphone to account for over half of the total sales for its newly unveiled Galaxy S23 series, according to the company's head of smartphones. This is because...