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President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović joins the BGF Committee to Prevent Disinformation
At the BGF 10th Anniversary Conference, BGF launched and discussed the Manifesto “AIWS Actions to create an Age of Global Enlightenment.” To implement this AIWS Actions, BGF has established a committee include distinguished leaders. Members of the Committee are Global...
7 of Africa’s innovative, if controversial, hacks
To read about seven of Africa's most innovative, if sometimes controversial, technology hacks, please hit this link. African technologists are good at making lemonade from the sour lemons of unreliable power and corrupt governments.
India moves to streamline taxes
India seems about to launch the biggest economic reform since a huge deregulation program was enacted in 1991. The upper house of India's Parliament has passed a bill to streamline and unify taxes on 15 goods and services taxes across the country, which has...
China wants a four-nation alliance against terrorism
China is trying to create what it calls an anti-terrorism alliance with Pakistan, Afghanistan and Tajikistan, Chinese state media said on Aug. 4. China has faced Islamic terrorism in some of its western region. China envisions a "four-country mechanism" for...
Karzai says NATO should leave or focus on Pakistan
Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai says that foreign forces should either leave Afghanistan to deal with its civil war, or focus on the Taliban’s foreign backers in Pakistan. And he says that bombing Taliban positions just makes things worse. He told The...
Vietnam as U.S contact point for North Korea?
By LLEWELLYN KING Can Vietnam talk some sense into North Korea, and in so doing make itself the go-to country in Asia for diplomatic fixes? There are those in Hanoi, and quite a few scattered across the foreign policy establishment, who think so. Vietnamese President...
Addressing Attacks on Vietnamese Computer Systems
Addressing Attacks on Vietnamese Computer Systems By Allan Cytryn, Risk Masters International, LLC; Member of Board of Thinkers, The Boston Global Forum and Prof. John E. Savage, Brown University; Member of Board of Thinkers, The Boston Global Forum We recommend a...