UK Research & Innovation buys a second Quantum Learning Machine from the French company Atos. According to a government tender announcement, in December, UK Research & Innovation awarded Atos
The central bank of the Philippines Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) launched a three-year strategy to promote open finance with a special focus on improving economic resilience and financial inclusion. The Open Finance Roadmap 2...
The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology of Nepal has launched the Nagarik App, a mobile application where citizens can access government services. Although still being tested, the app is already linked to over 40...
Within its programme to intensify digital skills and learning, the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (MOSHE) designed a National Digital Skills Country Action Plan to improve employability in the digital work sphere over th...
According to a Reuters report, Brazil's government will not bar Huawei from the country's 5G network auctions that are scheduled for June 2021. President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro previously opposed Huawei's involvement in 5G netwo...
China's Supreme People's Court introduced a pilot programme allowing selected courts to raise their efficiency without changes to the current civil procedure law. This programme allows Internet courts to expand the scope of mediat...
NGO Avaaz released a report this month on how YouTube algorithms seem to be driving users to watch climate misinformation videos. Avaaz examined the videos that the platform recommends when users search for terms related to climat...
Six members of the US Congress have sent a letter to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), urging the organisation to reject the sale of the .org registry to Ethos capital. Such a sale, it is argued, 'is...
EU Trade Commissioner Phil Hogan visited the United States and expressed the wish to 'refresh, recalibrate and generally reclaim the shared trade agenda of the EU and US in the coming months'. At the center of the bilateral talks ...
The Tunisian government in cooperation with GSMA will develop a mobile connectivity services to protect lives through a SMS Disaster Alert System that would alert citizens during major natural disasters. This is part of GSMA's We ...
A KPMG survey conducted among 751 US business decision-makers shows wide-ranging support for some level of government regulation of artificial intelligence (AI). The largest support for government oversight came from bus...
The B20 -or "G20 for businesses" -held itsfirst forumfor its task forces in Riyadh from 15th to 16 January. B20 brings together private international companies for policy advocacy for G20. It has been focussed on global economic a...