Tag: Technology

Diplomazia 4.0: tecnologia, sovranità e centralità dell’umano

(Diego Brasioli) La tecnologia non è più soltanto uno strumento della politica internazionale. Intelligenza artificiale, tecnologie quantistiche, semiconduttori avanzati, infrastrutture digitali, cybersicurezza, reti satellitari e...

Global Demand for Ukraine’s Drone and Counterdrone Expertise and Technology

(The Soufan Center) Since the start of the war, innovative solutions by Ukrainian volunteer groups and soldiers have spurred on a defense industrial base...

Hong Kong and China cyberspace authority sign AI and blockchain cooperation deal

(DigWatch) The Chief Executive of Hong Kong, John Lee, met the Director of the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), Zhuang Rongwen, in Hong Kong...

EU capitals say deleting US tech is not realistic

(Mathieu Pollet - Politico) National capitals have a sobering message for Brussels: Europe runs on American technology, and that won’t change for years. After...

US pressure revives call for powerful EU tech regulator (Politico)

It reads like Washington’s worst nightmare: a European tech regulator independent of the Brussels institutions and armed to crack down on the violations of...

Digital Democracy in a Divided Global Landscape (Steven Feldstein – Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)

A global shift is taking place. Leaders recognize that tech innovation equals power, and they are marshaling their resources accordingly. Countries are working to...

Democratic by Design: Implementing and Innovating Democracy-Affirming Technologies (Caitlin Goldenberg Adrienne Goldstein Sharinee Jagtiani Lindsay Gorman – German Marshall Fund of the United States)

The emergence of critical new technologies, from quantum information tools to Artificial Intelligence (AI), has ushered in a new digital era. While these technologies...

Technology can power Australia to lead climate diplomacy with Pacific family (Stephen Minas, Christian Lohberger – The Interpreter)

Australia’s election was not just the “referendum” on nuclear that the opposition leader Peter Dutton had insisted on. In addition to removing the political...

Bookshelf: Preserving the US technological republic (John West – The Strategist)

Alexander Karp and Nicholas Zamiska make a strong case for strengthening the United States’ standing in the tech world. In their recent book—The Technological...

Open newsletter – february 21, 2022

from: Al Jazeera, Asia Times, Corriere della Sera, East Asia Forum, Euractiv, Global Times, Reuters, RFE RL, RUSI, TASS, The Interpreter, The Strategist  AFGHANISTAN The United...

Understanding the impact of automation on workers, jobs, and wages (Harry J. Holzer, Brookings)

Since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, workers like the Luddites in 19th century Britain have feared that they will be replaced by machines...

3 ways digital technology can be a sustainability game-changer (James Anderson, Gregory Caimi, World Economic Forum)

Our new survey underlines the huge impact digital technology is having on organisations' sustainability agendas. As well as its benefits, digital can also...

How digital transformation is driving economic change (Zia Qureshi, Brookings)

We are living in a time of exciting technological innovations. Digital technologies are driving transformative change. Economic paradigms are shifting. The new technologies are...

Breakthrough: The promise of frontier technologies for sustainable development (Homi Kharas, John McArthur, and Izumi Ohno, Brookings)

What breakthrough technologies have the potential soon to affect the human condition at a substantial scale, with special emphasis on the economic, social, and...

Davos 2022. Technology Cooperation in the Fourth Industrial Revolution (World Economic Forum)

The technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution have already led to transformative advances in numerous domains. How can technology stakeholders work together to balance innovation...

Visualising the race to build the world’s fastest supercomputers (Mohammed Hussein, Al Jazeera)

They are the most powerful machines on Earth, used in everything from investigating the best treatments for the coronavirus to uncovering the origins of...