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New Technologies
A one-stop assimilation of databases and sources presenting most updated Israeli innovation and technologies to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond that.
Data Is Power
Matthew J. Slaughter & David H. McCormick, Foreign Affairs | Data is now at the center of global trade. For decades, international trade...
Digital technologies can help states to face the scale and complexity of COVID-19 vaccine delivery
World Bank Blogs| Vaccination is a high-priority activity in the fight against the COVID-19 global pandemic. Reaching high coverage and...
The Struggle for Technology Sovereignty in Europe
Hermann Hauser, Project Syndicate| From now on, every country or group of countries must ask itself whether it produces the technologies...
Accelerating hydrogen: new issue of Future Power Technology out now
Power Technology | EIT InnoEnergy recently launched the European Green Hydrogen Acceleration Center (EGHAC), a mammoth effort to support...
The Innovation Wars- America’s Eroding Technological Advantage
Christopher Darby & Sarah Sewall, Foreign Affairs | Since the early days of the Cold War, the United States has led the world in...
The rules of the tech game are changing
The Economist | The idea of the technology industry being dominated by monopolies is so widely held that it has monopolised much...
China’s ‘No 1 document’: Beijing steps up focus on food security
Aljazeera| China will put greater pressure on its regions to boost grain yields and step up support for its domestic seed industry as it...
How investments in agricultural technology are accelerating UAE's food security targets
Arabian Business Global| Coronavirus highlighted the need to producing food locally. The UAE’s investments in agriculture technology...
China’s top diplomat says Beijing seeks to U.S. to join forces on new energy and new technologies
Amber Wang, SCMP | Politburo member Yang Jiechi says China puts itself forward to help writing new global rules. China has talked up the...
Can big data help protect the planet
MD Staff, Modern Diplomacy | How do we get to a more sustainable and inclusive future if we don’t know where we are? This is where data...
London Calling for Military Tech Cooperation
Jon Harper, National Defense | With extra money in its coffers for modernization, the U.K. Ministry of Defence is looking for additional...
What makes this Myanmar coup different
Morten B. Pedersen, Australian Strategic Policy Institute| The dominant response to the military coup in Myanmar on 1 February has been,...
Myanmar is Experiencing a Digital-Age Coup – Tech Companies Must Push Back
Allie Funk, Just Security| On Feb. 1, Myanmar’s military seized control of the government, detained political leaders, issued a one-year...
Facebook’s ‘Supreme Court’ Faces Its First Major Test
Jameel Jaffer and Katy Glenn Bass, The New York Times | Facebook’s new Oversight Board is considering whether the company was justified...
Norway, the UK and Canada are not climate champions. They are climate hypocrites
Ivana Kottasová, CNN| Much of the environmental innovation that Norway is so proud of is financed by its oil money. Because Norway, apart...
Could AI ease food security fears?
Liangxiu Han, New Food Magazine| Dr. Liangxiu Han discusses how we might harness big data and machine learning/AI to boost global food...
China issues new anti-monopoly rules targeting its tech giants
Reuters Staff - Reuters| China’s market regulator released new anti-monopoly guidelines that target internet platforms, tightening...
Food Innovation Hubs Put Farmers at Head of the Table for Systems Change
Modern Diplomacy | To meet the SDG and change the way food is produced and consumed, the World Economic Forum, the Government of...
After big hack of U.S. government, Biden enlists 'world class' cybersecurity team
Christopher Bing & Joseph Menn, Reuters | President Joe Biden is hiring a group of national security veterans with deep cyber expertise,...
How Companies Should Leverage Digitization
Dambisa Moyo, Project Syndicate| As the COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the fragility of many business models, it has also intensified...
Data: Governance and Geopolitics
Gregory F. Treverton & Pari Esfandiari, Center for Strategic and International Studies| Big data is often perceived as the black gold of...
Diplomatic Technology Summit Highlights Israeli Innovation in Post-COVID World
Eliana Rudee, The Algeimeiner | The global DiploTech summit brought together ambassadors and technology leaders to explore Israel’s...
A moment of reckoning: the need for a strong and global cybersecurity response
Brad Smith - Microsoft| The final weeks of a challenging year have proven even more difficult with the recent exposure of the world’s...
Twitter To Remove Tweets Containing Vaccine Misinformation
Jack Brewster, Forbes| Twitter announced Wednesday that beginning in 2021, it will remove tweets containing misinformation about Covid-19...
UK Government to set new regulations for social media companies
ANI, The economic Times | Under the new Online Safety Bill, social media sites, websites, apps and other services which host...
Tech Giants and Social Media Need Smart Regulation
Jason Furman, The Wall Street Journal | The antitrust cases against Google and now Facebook are a welcome reinvigoration of the...
China, Japan & South Korea can make their carbon neutral goals a reality and drive change worldwide
Alistair Ritchie and Jackson Ewing, SCMP | The East Asian powers are moving on climate change. With Japan, China, and South Korea...
Backed by space technology, Asia-Pacific countries power sustainable development
Newsroom, Modern Diplomacy | Asian and Pacific nations are increasingly leveraging space technology and geospatial information to respond...
Estonian ambassador talks applying international law to cyberspace at PWH event
Zen Suzuki, The Daily Pennsylvanian | Perry World House hosted a panel to discuss how international law can be applied to cyberspace to...
Japanese technology to Fight Covid-19 in Asia and Africa
Newsroom, Moderndiplomacy | Japanese technology and products will help countries in Africa and Asia limit the impact of the COVID-19...
Students bridging diplomatic divide through videogames
Max Rivlin-Nadler, KPBS | Salaam, a video game that's meant to encourage empathy and help refugees. Its developer, 25-year-old Lual...
Azerbaijan’s drones owned the battlefield in Nagorno-Karabakh — and showed future of warfare
Robyn Dixon, The Washington Post | The expanding array of relatively low-cost drones can offer countries air power at a fraction of the...
OAS, Cisco & the Citi Foundation inaugurated the Cybersecurity Innovation Fund
OAS | The Organization of American States (OAS), Cisco and the Citi Foundation inaugurated the Cybersecurity Innovation Fund. The...
‘Fire hose’ of health innovation risks going down the drain
Steve Davis, Financial Times | Technologists around the world are developing digital tools to help distribute a hoped-for Covid-19...
Russia, Iran meddling with US elections: 'Hacking of our hearts and minds'
Carla Bleiker, DW | One of the biggest concerns in the upcoming US election is that foreign powers could interfere with the vote. Experts...
Professor Whose Economic Model Predicted Trump Win in 2016 Says President Will Beat Biden
David Child News Week | John Antonakis, a professor of Organisational Behaviour from Switzerland's Lausanne University, said the model's...
2020 elections: AI has chosen a winner- but there’s a catch
Independent | AI will one day be able to predict the outcomes of the electoral college with near-total precision: it’s not a matter of...
The Coming Revolution in Intelligence Affairs
Anthony Vinci, Foreign Affairs In the future, machines will spy on machines in order to know what other machines are doing or are...
This AI Expert From Senegal Is Helping Showcase Africans In STEM
Forbes Adji Bousso Dieng, an AI Expert From Senegal, works in an area of Artificial Intelligence called generative modeling. "Generative...
The Geopolitics of Semiconductors
Bilahari Kausikan, The Strait Times The US has a chokehold on China when it comes to the semiconductor industry, as China lacks the...
Trump's Biggest Foreign Policy Win
Ian Bremmer, TIME The British government announced that U.K. telecom carriers will be banned from installing new Huawei equipment for...
Emerging technologies entrenching racism, discrimination
Newsroom, Modern Diplomacy An independent UN human rights expert is calling for greater scrutiny of emerging digital technologies which...
Empowering education through artificial intelligence
Yang Meiping, Shine | Experts from China and abroad shared their ideas on how artificial intelligence can empower education in...
Alibaba Cloud offers AI platform to support coronavirus medical efforts
Elieen Yu, ZDNet Chinese tech giant will provide data insights gleaned from its artificial intelligence-powered applications to help...
Overview of Initiatives and Platforms to Fight Covid-19 in Central Europe
Interreg Central Europe Synergy Numerous initiatives and instruments have developed in Central Europe to support the emergency services...
Digital diplomacy: Challenges and opportunities
Gulf News, Ruqayya Alblooshi Countries must equip future diplomats with the necessary set of digital skills. Read the full article HERE
Can AI Serve The World In A Time Of Crisis Like The COVID-19 Pandemic
Niven Narain, Ai Thority As COVID-19 continues to ravage parts of the world, global industries including tech, healthcare and...
DeepMind sets AI loose on Diplomacy board game, and collaboration is key
R. Dallon Adams, TechRepublic Artificial intelligence systems have become increasingly well-adapted to a host of basic board games. Now,...
Science diplomacy has come of age in the time of coronavirus
Ruqayya Alblooshi, Gulf News As the world battles to contain COVID-19, scientists and researchers take the centre stage. As the defining...
The importance and opportunities of transatlantic cooperation on AI
Joshua P. Meltzer, Cameron F. Kerry, and Alex Engler, Brookings Artificial intelligence (AI) is a potentially transformational technology...
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