The government of Malta has launched an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Fund dedicated to supporting capacity building efforts related to AI research in the country. The grant is aimed to encourage (a) increased capacity for...
Delft University of Technology and Royal DSM -a nutrition, health, and sustainable living company -in the Netherlands have announced the establishment of an Artificial Intelligence Lab for Biosciences (AI4B.io Lab). The lab will b...
French regulator CNIL has published results of the survey and online consultation organized in 2020, on the protection of the personal data of minors including their rights online. While the survey focused on the digital pra...
The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) started an investigation to assess whether Google's proposals to remove third party cookies from its Chrome browser could cause advertising spending to be even more concentrated on Go...
Facebook has removed accounts belonging to Ugandan government officials accused of trying to manipulate public debate before national elections. Uganda is holding presidential and parliamentary elections. The removed network of ac...
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) have launched a new webpage providing comprehensive access to the WIPO-WTO Colloquium Papers. This database of publications is focused on i...
The UK High Court has held in its ruling Privacy International v Investigatory Powers Tribunal [2021] that the issuance of general warrants to authorise property interference and certain forms of computer hacking is not permitted;...
Aiming at addressing the digital divide that was exposed by the COVID-19 crisis, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) and Airtel Africa (African branch of Indian Bharti Airtel) unveiled 5-year partnership agreement to buttress the e-le...
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...