Tech & Innovation
Business in Need of Cyber Rules
For more than 20 years, countries have been struggling to introduce a
set of rules of conduct and liability requirements for digital space users.
Progress in...
Technology for Social Good in India
From using drones to plan water supply
schemes in hard-to-reach locations, to deploying satellite imagery for
enhancing land usage, or using mobile phones to track children’s...
Innovative smartphone app to improve rainwater harvesting in Africa
It is now possible to calculate the amount of rainwater that can be
harvested from the roof of houses thanks to a new smart phone...
Companies Are Saving to Transform as Digital Disruption Gains Momentum Globally
As digital technologies continue to reinvent how businesses grow and
operate, the associated risks and opportunities are prompting companies to
expand their cost management strategies, according...
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...