Coronavirus lockdown casts harsh light on our data and privacy online

A third of all nations lack laws to protect their citizen’s online data and privacy, despite an 11 per cent uptick in the global...

Blockchain to tackle supply chain failures exposed by COVID-19 and boost economic recovery

The pressure created by the COVID-19 outbreak on global trade systems highlights an urgent need for global cooperation to maintain and strengthen the resilience...

EU for efficient contact tracing apps to support gradual lifting of confinement measures

EU Members States, supported by the Commission, have developed an EU toolbox for the use of mobile applications for contact tracing and warning in...

Commercial Drone Market to Hit 2.91 Million Units by 2023

Frost & Sullivan’s recent analysis, Global Commercial UAS Market Outlook, 2020, finds that the industry is transitioning from a nascent to a growth stage....

How to protect yourself from cybercrime

Cybercrime has rocketed since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic as many try to exploit people’s fears. Below are tips on how to protect...

New global platform to keep information networks ‘safer, stronger’ throughout COVID-19 pandemic

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) launched a new platform on Monday to help global networks under increasing strain and facing rising demand during the COVID-19 crisis...

The Influence of Artificial Intelligence on Future Education

The way people receive and consume news and entertainment has changed drastically nowadays with features such as personalized content coming into play. Other technologies have also...

UNIDO looks at how to assess value chain readiness to adopt blockchain technology

The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)  is piloting methodology to assess the readiness of a value chain to adopt blockchain technology. The Global Quality and...

First Facial Recognition Framework Released for Engineers and Policy Makers to Build Transparency

While the market for facial recognition tools and services is expected to more than double in value to $7bn by 2024, there have been...

Artificial intelligence: Tackling the risks for consumers

Artificial intelligence and automated decision making processes can pose certain threats to consumers. Find out how the European Parliament wants to protect them. What is artificial intelligence...

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