Microsoft announced that it would stop generating trash from its operations by 2030 as part of its zero waste goal. To that end, the company will set the so-called “circular centres”, which will reuse...
Vodafone has partnered with the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) in order to conduct a study on environmental change and its impact on the health of forests in the UK. The...
As borders in Africa open, the African Union Open Corridor Initiative decided to deploy a digital platform known as PanaBIOS in order to perform bio-screening and cross-border contact tracing in order...
The New Zealand government is upgrading its digital child exploitation filtering system for blocking websites that host child sexual abuse images.
Set up in 2010 by the Department of Internal...
The Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC) and Huawei Technologies in Malaysia signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to strengthen Malaysia’s position as a core of digital Association of...
Following a joint publication with the IoT Alliance Australia (IoTAA) on how digital transformation and IoT can contribute to the UN sustainable development goals (SDGs), the Industrial Internet...
The UK Information Commissioner’s Office has published a Guidance on AI and data protection dedicated to professionals with a compliance focus (e.g. data protection officers, general counsels, risk...
Chinese researchers have created a mobile device that can track key sources of air pollution such as volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Data gathered by the device is then used to plot the...
Kenyan mobile network operator Safaricom will lose around Ksh. 19 billion in revenue following a government directive for cost-free mobile money transactions in the COVID-19 period. The directive was...
Following virtual meetings on 18 July 2020 for the G20 Digital Economy Ministers, a Ministerial Declaration was emerged to underscore the role of connectivity and digital technologies in accelerating...
For the first time the EU issued sanctions against companies in North Korea and China, as well as the Department for special technologies of the Russian military intelligence service, as they were...
Mastercard and Microsoft have unveiled a collaboration to shape the future of digital commerce, drive start-up innovation, and enable financial inclusion. Such collaboration will promote Mastercard...