Tech & Innovation
Knowledge-based technologies can decrease flood losses
Recent floods saturated the grounds in dry regions,
though it also brought grief and pain for the residents. New emerging
technologies and knowledge-based companies suggest up-to-date...
Central Banks Becoming Leaders in Blockchain Experimentation
Although central banks are among the most cautious institutions in the
world, they are, perhaps surprisingly, among the first to implement and
experiment with blockchain technology....
How Nuclear Techniques Help Feed China
With 19% of the world’s population but only 7% of its
arable land, China is in a bind: how to feed its growing and increasingly
affluent...
When neuroscience meets AI: What does the future of learning look like?
Meet Dr. Nandini Chatterjee Singh, a cognitive neuroscientist at UNESCO MGIEP (Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable
Development) where she has been...
Shared, automated… and electric?
Authors: George Kamiya and Jacob
Teter*
Automated driving and shared mobility could dramatically reshape road
transport over the coming decades, with major implications for vehicle electrification and...
What is the Copyright Directive about?
Digital technologies have transformed the way creative content is
produced, distributed and accessed. The new Directive brings the copyright
rules up to date with those changes...
Huawei case: The HiFi Geostrategic Gambit
In a
general, comprehensive, strategic outline of the global scenario we can see
that China is being harassed on several fronts by the US: commercial pressures,
diplomatic...
Youth in the Global South Must Join Forces for Their Future of Work
I believe that the developing world is full of opportunities for young people because many of us have the energy and eagerness to make...
Artificial Intelligence in Knowledge Societies: A ROAM Approach – Open Data and AI
The session
“Open Data and AI” organized within the framework of “Principles for AI:
Towards a Humanistic Approach?” on 5 March 2019 requested UNESCO to continue
leveraging...
Rebecca Enonchong: A Heavyweight in African Tech
Named in 2017 as one of the 100 Most Influential Africans
in SCIENCE, TECH & INNOVATION by
the New African Magazine and Jeune Afrique’s 50 Most...