The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has issued a draft National Data Governance Framework to mobilise citizen non-personal data for use by public and private entities in a bid to improve services. The draft policy proposes launching a...
The U.S. can improve its AI governance strategy by addressing online biases
The United States has been working to codify the National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Initiative that focuses on six strategic pillars: improving AI innovation, advancing trustworthy AI, creating new education and training opportunities through AI, improving existing...
2 Israelis charged with huge hacking and fraud scheme
(June 13th, 2016) Two Israeli citizens pleaded not guilty on June 9 to charges of running a massive computer hacking and fraud scheme that generated hundreds of millions of dollars of illegal profit, Reuters reported. Gery Shalon and Ziv Orenstein entered their pleas...
Libyan troops seem on verge of defeating ISIS
(June 13th, 2016) Military forces of the Libyan government claimed that they have reached the center of the coastal city of Sirte, the Islamic State’s key stronghold in Libya. That could mean that the fanatical group may have lost all the land it controlled in the...
Another too-close encounter between Chinese. U.S. planes
(June 13th, 2016) In another case of scary close encounters caused by China’s increasingly aggressive posture in the East China and South China Seas, a Chinese fighter jet flew very close to a U.S. Air Force reconnaissance plane on June 7 in the East China Sea, where...
China’s economic problems tough nut to crack
(June 13th, 2016) Bloomberg Video: Why China’s economy will be so hard to fix. Hit this link.
France launches app for terror-attack alerts
(June 13th, 2016) The French government has launched an app to alert users to terror attacks. The new service comes as the Euro 2016 soccer championship was about to get underway. The Interior Ministry app, called SAIP, flashes a warning on users’ mobile phones...
Turkish leader’s dictatorship trend kills chances for E.U. membership by ’20
Turkey’s increasingly dictatorial president, Recep Erdogan, has destroyed his nation’s chances of joining the European Union by 2020, as some had hoped, for pushing through a new law aimed a destroying parliamentary opposition to Mr. Erdoğan’s ruling...