GDPR Clock is Ticking for the US Companies as Well: Top 7 Tips to Get Ready
General Data Protection Regulation is about to be applicable as from 25 May 2018. Its long-arm teritorrial reach brings obligations not only to EU...
Using Digital Tools to Transform Transportation
At Transforming Transportation, an international forum at the World Bank headquarters in January 2018, participants took a close look at the potentially enormous impact...
Digital Identity – Why It Matters and Why It’s Important We Get It Right
Leaders from government, business, international organizations, civil society and the humanitarian community have called for greater multistakeholder cooperation on digital identity. The UNHCR, World...
World’s most vulnerable countries on track to achieve universal Internet access by 2020
The world’s least developed countries are narrowing ‘digital divide,’ and with millions of people now taking advantage of smart phones and other digital devices,...
To Prevent a Digital Dark Age: World Economic Forum Launches Global Centre for Cybersecurity
The World Economic Forum announced today a new Global Centre for Cybersecurity to help build a safe and secure global cyberspace. The centre will...
Automation is fuelling populist mistrust of technology and fears about jobs and privacy
The speed of technological change is accelerating convenience at the expense of trust, raising questions about tech companies’ values, intentions and responsibility to consumers,...
The urgent need for new action and thinking on the governance of emerging technologies
The World Economic Forum today released a new book by its Founder and Executive Chairman Klaus Schwab entitled Shaping the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The...
Cybersecurity Threats Outpacing Abilities of Governments and Companies
Cybersecurity threats are outpacing the ability to overcome them unless all stakeholders begin to cooperate. The increasingly networked, digitized, and connected world is vulnerable...
Buckle up for the new passenger economy
A hundred years ago, few thought that the clunky automobile that broke down so often would ever replace a horse. In the 1970s, people...
5 things to know about connected cars
If you could go back in time and tell people that in the near future there would be a handheld device that would allow...