Tag: global

• Sci-fi surveillance: Europe’s secretive push into biometric technology

  December 10, 2020

  EU science funding is being spent on developing new tools for policing and security. €1.7bn from the programme over the past seven years backed the development of security products for… more ›

• Secret deal reveals how Chinese spies are given free rein in Switzerland

  December 9, 2020

  The full text of a secret deal between Switzerland and China that allowed Chinese security officials access to the country at Swiss taxpayers’ expense has been revealed for the first time as… more ›

• ‘We want to build a life’: Europe’s paperless young people speak out

  December 5, 2020

  A generation of undocumented Europeans – inspired by the ‘Dreamers’ in the US – are fighting for residency rights.  Europe has its own dreamer generation, but unlike the US Dreamers,… more ›

• Hundreds of Google workers condemn firing of AI scientist Timnit Gebru

  December 4, 2020

  Hundreds of Google employees and more than 1,000 academic researchers are speaking out in protest after a prominent Black scientist studying the ethics of artificial intelligence said she was fired… more ›

• Mobile for Development – State of the Industry Report 2019

  November 29, 2020

  For the first time, digital transactions represent the majority (57%) of mobile money transaction values. A larger proportion of money is entering and leaving the system in digital form, rather… more ›

• The Clash of Capitalisms

  November 22, 2020

  Capitalism rules the world. With only the most minor exceptions, the entire globe now organizes economic production the same way: labor is voluntary, capital is mostly in private hands, and… more ›

• Far right seizing COVID-19 ‘opportunity’ to expand: Study

  November 20, 2020

  Far-right individuals in Europe and the United States are increasingly forming global links and using the coronavirus pandemic to attract anti-vaccine activists and conspiracy theorists to their cause, a study commissioned by… more ›

• The corporatization of food in South Africa

  November 15, 2020

  When our priority is growing food for profit, people will go hungry. It is simply more profitable to grow food for retail and export than it is to feed people… more ›

• The rise and rise of creativity

  October 17, 2020

  Creativity doesn’t have a deep history. The Oxford English Dictionary records just a single usage of the word in the 17th century, and it’s religious: ‘In Creation, we have God and… more ›

• The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is ushering in a new age of warfare

  October 13, 2020

  Drones, sensors and long-range weapons have given one side a clear edge in the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Both Armenia and Azerbaijan, traditional enemies, have been building up their… more ›