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...
Turkey as of 15 January 2020 has restored fully access to the Wikipedia online encyclopedia. This has brought to an end the block of the popular online resource that lasted some 991 days. A report prepared by Netblocks which monit...
The Advocate General Campos Sanchez-Bordona to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued his non-binding opinion in four joined cases concerning the retention of and access to personal data in the context of nationa...
Reports indicate an increase in girls aged 11 to 13 being coerced to perform sexually through their own devices and posting it online. The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) shared that 80% of the sexual selfies found online for imag...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit decided that the protections afforded by the federalAmericans With Disabilities Act (ADA), applies to websites and mobile apps, in a new ruling. According to the court, limiting acce...