Hosted and managed by Oxford University’s Blavatnik School of Government, the Pathways Commission launched a Digital Roadmap that lays out pragmatic recommendations for developing countries that want to seize the opportunities available in the digital age for positive economic and social change, that benefit everyone. The Digital Roadmap highlights five points to ensure that digital revolution [...]

The 10th International Conference “Personal Data Protection” of the Russian tech regulator Roskomnadzor takes place in Moscow on November 7th. This event gathers representatives from data protection authorities, governments, business and civil society. The Data Protection Unit of the Council of Europe will participate to this conference to deliver a presentation on the state of [...]

Whatsapp has announced having filed a complaint in federal court attributing a cyberattack on its platform to a company called NSO Group. In May, Whatsapp had detected and blocked a cyberattack involving a vulnerability in its video-calling feature. In an opinion piece in the Washington Post, Will Cathcart, the head of the company, indicated that [...]

The Third Ordinary Session of the African Union (AU) Specialized Committee (STC) on Communication and Information Technology (ICT) urged the AU and its member states to jointly address some of the challenges of the digital age. African countries and pan-African institutions were called upon to build a continental cybersecurity guard, reach consensus on an integrated [...]

A  report launched at the Annual Meeting of the World Bank Group has shown that Africa will need $100 billion investments in order to achieve universal, affordable and quality Internet access by 2030. The Broadband for All Working Group of the Broadband Commission that prepared the report which was communicated via a press release also gave [...]

The day before the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights presented his annual report to the UN General Assembly in New York on digital technology, social protection and human rights, Privacy International announced the launch of its own series on surveillance in the provision of social services. According to the privacy group, “corporate, [...]

According to a news report, social media websites Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and WhatsApp were restricted by Turkish authorities in “at least three cities in the southern part of the country for about 48 hours”. This occurrence happened in the wake of the attack launched by Turkey on Northern Syria with data collected by the civil society group [...]

European Digital Rights (EDRi), along with four civil society groups, urged in an open letter to EU member states to conclude the negotiations on the ePrivacy regulation. The letter highlights the urgent need for a strong ePrivacy Regulation in order to tackle the problems created by the commercial surveillance business models, and expresses the deep [...]

The Dutch government has launched a Strategic Action Plan for Artificial Intelligence, outlining goals and actions for the country to take advantage of the social and economic opportunities offered by artificial intelligence (AI). Increasing public-private investments in AI (to support researchers and entrepreneurs) is one of the main action lines. The plan also focuses on [...]

 Ciudadania Inteligente and women@thetable launched ‘<A+> Alliance for Inclusive Algorithms’ platform along with the Affirmative Action for Algorithms (Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, & Gender) Declaration. In the focus it has ‘women and girls and all their intersections and forms’ calling for women to be ‘influentially involved in all levels of decision-making before old norms and [...]