Tech & Innovation
Djibouti Launches Digital Transformation to Improve Services to Citizens
The World Bank announced today new support for Djibouti’s ongoing efforts to leverage digital technology to bring government closer to citizens and improve the...
A European approach on Artificial Intelligence
The EU Commission is proposing a European approach to make the most out of the opportunities offered by artificial intelligence (AI), while addressing the...
The Ethical and Legal Issues of Artificial Intelligence
Ethics and law are inextricably linked in modern society, and many legal decisions arise from the interpretation of various ethical issues. Artificial intelligence adds...
Busting the Blockchain Hype: How to Tell if Distributed Ledger Technology is Right for You
Blockchain has been hailed as the solution for everything, from resolving global financial inequality, providing IDs for refugees, to enabling people to sell their...
The Artificial Intelligence Race: U.S. China and Russia
Artificial intelligence (AI), a subset of machine learning, has the potential to drastically impact a nation’s national security in various ways. Coined as the...
Global anxiety deepens over online data and privacy protection
Internet users worldwide are becoming more worried about their privacy online and many question the protections offered by Internet and social media companies, a...
Embracing Technology is Key for the Jobs of Tomorrow in Latin America and the Caribbean
New technologies provide a pathway to poverty reduction and could usher in a wave of higher productivity and growth across Latin America and the...
Asia’s Workers Will Benefit from New Technologies, but Government Action is also Needed
Technological advances have transformed the two billion worker Asian labor market, helping create 30 million jobs annually in industry and services over the last...
Congo-Gabon: Toward Regional Digital Integration
A student of the Faculty of Sciences at the Université Marien Ngouabi, Brazzaville, Marinette Moyo cannot imagine how she would be able to complete her...
Driving Tomorrow: Self-Driving Cars and its (legal) future
“The highly intriguing theory - supported by the extensive geological evidences including the bacteriological analysis of deep-laying hydrocarbons – about the a biotic nature...