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USA – Acting TTS Director to Return to FDIC (Mila Jasper, Nextgov)

RENA SCHILD/SHUTTERSTOCK.COM Bob DeLuca’s temporary detail directing Technology Transformation Services at the General Services Administration has come to an end, and GSA confirmed David Shive...

USA – Experts Call for Government to Designate Commercial Space Sector as Critical Infrastructure (Frank Konkel, Nextgov)

VADIM SADOVSKI/SHUTTERSTOCK.COM Space experts Wednesday urged the federal government to classify certain space satellites, sensors and their command and control systems as critical infrastructure systems. The...

USA – CISA, FBI Warn that U.S. Think Tanks Are in Hackers’ Crosshairs (Heather Kuldell, Nextgov)

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the FBI urged U.S. think tanks—particularly those focused on national security and international affairs—to take steps to...

USA – NIST Plans New Drone-Advancing Challenge Competition (Brandi Vincent, Nextgov)

Planning for a national challenge competition program to examine and advance a range of drone-centered capabilities and operations is in-the-works at the National Institute...

USA – Senate Passes Bill to Stop Scams and Fraud Around Student Debt Relief (Brandi Vincent, Nextgov)

The Senate unanimously passed a bipartisan bill that explicitly renders any unauthorized access to the Education Department’s information technology systems or agency-issued identification devices for fraud...

DATA PRIVACY/DISINFORMATION – Why Data Privacy Is Crucial to Fighting Disinformation (Patrick Tucker, Nextgov)

The data we give tech companies when we buy online or like a tweet will soon fuel disinformation campaigns intended to divide Americans or...

BETTER BUSINESS – How to make your business thrive by doing good (Laurent Marbacher, Isaac Getz, WEF)

Stakeholder capitalism will enable a Great Reset of the economy. Image: Wonderlane/Unsplash Doing good indiscriminately is a pitfall, because it’s not effective enough. A company...

FINTECH INDUSTRY/COVID19 – Global COVID-19 data tracks FinTech’s progress through unchartered waters (Herman Smit, Mary Emma Barton, Ana Fiorella Carvajal, Tania Ziegler, Bryan Zheng...

Image: Paul Hanaoka/Unsplash The global FinTech industry is growing amid the pandemic, although results vary across geographies and verticals. FinTechs have been adapting to...

COVID19 – How countries are dealing with the delicate matter of who to vaccinate first (John Letzing, WEF)

A medic fills a syringe with an experimental COVID-19 vaccine before administering it to a health worker during trials in Ahmedabad, India, November 26,...

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