How Facial Recognition Violates Human Rights
The Council of Europe has called for strict rules to avoid the significant risks to privacy and data protection posed by the increasing use of facial recognition technologies. Furthermore, certain…
NATO Introduces Explosive Ordnance Disposal Robot
NATO Introduces Explosive Ordnance Disposal Robot The concept of UGO-1st is now developed for different cooperating robots, controlled remotely with an easy human-computer interface. NATO informs that explosive ordnance disposal…
India Invites Tech Startups to Strengthen Covid Vaccine Network
The challenge invites participation from startups and emerging technology specialists to augment and scale the CoWIN platform. India’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) along with Ministry of Electronics…
How to Stop Infodemics During the Covid-19 Epidemic
As false or manipulated information continues to proliferate online during the Covid-19 epidemic, the Forum on Information and Democracy has published a report entitled How to end infodemics. Based on…
ITU’s Road to Addis Series to Focus on Global Connectivity
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has launched the Road to Addis, a series of events organized to build momentum towards the 2021 World Telecommunication Development Conference (WTDC-21), scheduled to take…
Covid Response: UN Launches ‘Pledge to Pause’ Social Media Campaign
With the Covid-19 pandemic sparking a communications emergency caused by false information disseminated on social media, the UN Secretary-General António Guterres is encouraging people everywhere to take a breath before…