Hybrid meetings: Walking the line between onsite and onlineAs communities enter the ‘new normal’ and develop strategies for economic recovery and how to build back better, questions about business continuity, and ultimately meetings, are coming into sharp focus.As holding onsite-only meetings remains challenging, the in-betweens will gain more ground. To illustrate with the most [...]
On 28 February, the Vatican launched the ‘Rome Call for AI Ethics’. The Call sets out six principles, namely, transparency, inclusion, responsibility, impartiality, reliability, and security and privacy for AI. Signed by tech giants such as Microsoft, and IBM, as well as the Government of Italy and Director General of FAO, the document calls [...]
Development: 2021 World Development Report (WDR) to tackle ‘data for development’ from the perspective of low and middle income countries. Indian company Sterling and Wilson Private won contracts for a project on digital ID and the construction of a data center in the Republic of Congo. Afghanistan reaches out to India to introduce a [...]
COVID-19: Will conference diplomacy shift online? In response to the ban on gatherings as a result of COVID-19, the ICANN67 Public Meeting, the spring meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, and several other tech summits have been moved to the virtual space. Even though factors including climate change, travel costs, [...]