Every January, big technology trends become more central to key discussions as the world’s top business and political leaders gather at the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland.It reflects the growing importance of ICTs Read more…
By harnessing data science, mobile operators can start to engage prepaid users and better understand what kinds of services they need. Over the past decade, more than half of the names on the Fortune 500 Read more…
Connecting the unconnected to digital services starts with the realization that digital services aren’t designed for them, says Bharti Airtel Global CIO Harmeen Mehta. We hear a lot about connecting the next billion to the Read more…
A “Gender Equality Hackathon” organized by Foraus and the Impact Hub Geneva recently hosted a two-and-a-half day SDG Accelerator #policyhack with Think Tank Hub and the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (DFAE) aimed at Read more…
DAKAR (Reuters) – Rapidly expanding access to the internet across Africa is helping grassroots opposition movements take on once-invulnerable regimes. Many entrenched rulers have a simple response: pulling the plug. While countries in the Middle Read more…
5G Asia is underway in Singapore, and a lot of the talk is about operator trials, business cases, timelines, spectrum and the challenges of millimeter-wave signal degradation in crowded areas. Unless you ask Google, then Read more…
Decentralized banking services powered by blockchain and AI could widen financial inclusion, but trust is critical, say ITU Telecom World panelists “AI is going to eliminate jobs.” “Jobs will not be eliminated, they will simply Read more…
Future economic growth for many countries will increasingly depend on domestic tech innovation. That’s why the annual ITU Telecom World event is increasingly focused on including the tech start-ups and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) that are Read more…
Developers, startups and tech titans are all racing to create a new set of voice-powered and video-centric applications aimed at meeting the needs of the world’s “next billion” mobile Internet users, many of whom hail Read more…
Top-level government, business and United Nations leaders have called for global action to ensure broadband Internet access for all or risk that some vulnerable populations could fall deeper into the digital divide. The leaders came together in New Read more…
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