Financial technology applications need to go beyond payments systems to provide a wide array of services, from lending to insurance, to new and existing banking customers
Historian Dmitry Shlapentokh of Indiana University South Bend outlines the reasons why the US might be falling behind in the high-tech race.
With the emergence of Bitcoin and other decentralized crypto-currency and central bank digital money, governments must now act like strategic oligopolists.
The trends and challenges for the gaming sector in the context of the growth of e-sports and the application of new technology such as virtual reality.
Skeptics have dismissed NFTs as absurd, while enthusiasts call them the wave of the digital future.
Assessing the enormous challenges for the world’s two biggest economies as they focus on shoring up their global competitiveness.
Pandemic preparedness should include a range of digital health capabilities with a view to minimizing the digital divide.
Washington hopes such a deal would be a powerful counterweight to China’s efforts to impose its own digital standards in the region.
Drawing on its own experience and lessons from other nations, China could portray the circular economy as a future-proof, carbon-neutral economic development model.
While the two parties share many interests on which their cooperation is based, they still diverge significantly in their approaches to technology and data.
Dividing data into jurisdictional compartments and potentially data storage centers and the internet, too, would be a regressive move.
China should explore more holistic solutions as it seeks to manage the social impact of ubiquitous technological innovation.
Are Indonesia’s diplomats in danger of being influenced by those who shout loudest on Twitter and Facebook?
Instead of focusing only on how to control the movement of water, cities should also embrace the ongoing “amphibious transformation” by adapting to life on water.
Proponents of transparency and confidence-building measures led by the US need to meet halfway with China and Russia.
The world needs supplier-blind cybersecurity to ensure new technologies work for people and are not weaponized in a new Cold War.
Why parents should be more circumspect when using technology to stay connected with their children.
Efforts to enhance cybersecurity should include the participation of NGOs and the groups they serve to ensure that the civil society sector is not left exposed to risks.
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