Latest policy publications
A recent policy update by PayPal that would fine users $2,500 for misinformation has been withdrawn after the payments giant said it was published in error. Soon after the new policy wording was reported, PayPal faced an intense backlash on social media with many high-profile leaders in technology openly criticising the update.
Africa Data Centres has requested a disbursement of funding from a larger grant awarded by the International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) in 2021. The total award was for $300 million USD; Africa Data Centres has requested $83 million be released so that they can expand existing data centres in South Africa.
In recent years there has been a deluge of articles describing, often in apocalyptic terms, the imminent and fundamental changes to the social and political fabric artificial intelligence will bring Our roads will soon be brimming with autonomous or semiautonomous cars, weaving in seamless formation according to the whims of an algorithm digesting data in… Read More