All posts tagged "internet"

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  Australia’s media regulator set for new powers to tackle internet misinformation

  Australia’s media regulator could force internet companies to share data about how they treat misinformation and disinformation under new laws that could come into effect later this year. The plan

  • Posted March 23, 2022
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  Internet freedom in sharp decline, watchdog warns

  A lack of regulation and a rise in authoritarian government control has led to an “unprecedented assault on free expression online”, with global internet freedom declining for the eleventh consecutive

  • Posted September 24, 2021
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  Reach every home: building universal digital services

  Governments need strong digital infrastructure to provide citizens with online services and boost economic growth. At a GGF webinar, the panel considered how to develop national communications networks – and

  • Posted January 18, 2021
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  UK standards committee: ‘urgent need’ to strengthen regulation of public sector AI

  A new report looking at artificial intelligence (AI) in the UK public sector says there’s an “urgent need for guidance and regulation.” AI has the potential to “revolutionise” public service

  • Posted February 13, 2020
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  Global internet freedom falls for ninth consecutive year, watchdog finds

  Governments around the world are increasingly using social media to manipulate elections and monitor their citizens, leading to digital authoritarianism and causing global internet freedom to decline for the ninth

  • Posted November 14, 2019
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  Governments must act faster to help people make greater use of the Internet, OECD warns

  Governments around the world must act faster to help people and firms to make greater use of the Internet and remove regulatory barriers to digital innovation, OECD general secretary Angel

  • Posted June 28, 2016
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  Smart thinking on digital inclusion from Singapore government

  The government of Singapore is set to spend millions of dollars on driving digital inclusion throughout the country. In a recent announcement, the country’s minister for communications and information, Yaacob

  • Posted April 12, 2014
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