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...
According to Tan Sri Richard Malanjum, Malaysia's chief justice,judges in the country will soon begin using artificial intelligence (AI) to help them issue more consistent decisions. A data-driven tool named 'data sentencing' is c...
Researchers fromOnline safety company AntiToxin Technologies, during an investigation commissioned by T.echCrunch, has found that Microsoft's Bing search engine shows child pornography images as well as provides suggestions for ot...
After the first KSK rollover in October 2018, ICANN has finished the process and revoked the old 2010 key from the root zone.The KSK helps protect the domain name system (DNS) and overall Internet security. This change was essenti...
Regulators are preparing to fix the rates drivers for ride-hailing services receive, after drivers demands for more oversight and higher rates, as reported byReuters. As part of an attempt to expand sharing economy services in Sou...