As significant as the surge of multiparty politics has been, the decade since a social media boom started in Africa is driving even more transformations of the continent’s political field.
Measuring the proportion of internet users globally is done in disparate ways, and even those who have some degree of access may not have meaningful access that would allow them to claim economic, social, cultural, political and civil rights — a great promise of what ...
The advances of science and technology are outpacing existing care and payment models, regulatory structures, and other governance systems.
Chair's message, CyFy Africa 2019.
African countries should learn from mistakes that have already been made while pursuing their own path in Internet security.
By racing to roll-out 5G networks for the sake of being cutting-edge, governments and telecom players are giving little to no consideration to its consequences.
Policy makers are asked to worry deeply about how workers will deal with the costs of reskilling if they aren’t paid for the duration of the reskilling period or their wages aren’t enough to pay the tuition.
LAWS are transforming into an arena of geopolitical and strategic competition while also reflecting the same inequalities that have characterised technology-led military innovation for decades. ...
There is a strong case to be made for leveraging mobile banking systems in order to increase the quotient of financial inclusion in the country.
As Beijing sets its sights on dominance of the seas, it is also working to enhance its deep sea capabilities through “intelligentised” (智能) military systems, which in turn will have broader implications for the Indo-Pacific strategic nuclear balance.
The British government is expected to complete its review of the issues relating to 5G over the next month or so and its spokespersons have said that no official determination has been made as yet.
In typical applications of robotics, you have a robot that does one thing over and over again. If something goes wrong, the robot is not able to adapt. If you have a system that instead of memorising what exactly to do has a more general ...
Is what we commonly call artificial intelligence really that or is it something else being called AI simply to push the idea of forward progress? This is a deeply problematic trend, says Lipton — the lurching between visions of utopia and doomsday scenarios instead of ...
What if there was a new class of zero days on the horizon? What if, even if it was a known zero day, it wouldn’t necessarily be able to be patched, or even understood?
In the far corners of our world, jobs of the future are taking shape via people who are imagining new possibilities around customer problems and creating entire businesses around the solutions.
The requirement of retaining one “serving copy” of all personal data collected within India is shrouded in mystery.
Online mentoring, volunteering and expert networks have the real potential to diversify even students' weak tie networks which can lead to new opportunity.
Tigran Yepremyan is the Dean of the Faculty of International Relations and an Associate Professor of World History and IR at the Yerevan State University, Armenia. ...
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Sambit Mishra is an Indian Administrative Services (IAS) officer currently posted as the Chief Executive Officer of the Zila Panchayat Korba Chhattisgarh. He has an academic background in Engineering, having graduated with a Bachelor of Technology (B Tech) in Biological ...
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