The Middle East is using fiber to rebuild the transit economy it once framed around oil and the Suez Canal. Which routes get laid will depend as much on security and sovereignty as on engineering, with the question of Palestine central to the choice
Africa is a continent still waiting to not only have access to the internet but to the knowledge, tools, and institutional capacity to shape its own technological future.
Both countries are increasing government oversight on artificial intelligence, but whether (or when) they enact total state control depends on their own perceptions of risk and potential leaps in AI development.
Multilateral organizations are still working on how to design institutional frameworks to harness the rapid development of AI across the globe
Ensuring effective implementation of Egypt’s 2020 Personal Data Protection Law would help provide a roadmap to address privacy concerns in data-driven ventures
Ukraine offers an opportunity to examine how democracies may balance innovation, accountability, and human rights in the age of autonomous warfare
Though generative artificial intelligence has facilitated the emulation of form, it cannot take responsibility for what is written. Agency remains at the heart of writing once all else can be automated
Washington uses ‘chokepoints’ to restrict global access to AI development, but this approach may threaten U.S. national security while creating significant moral dilemmas
AI-generated content has already begun to work against us, rather than for us. To ensure this technology brings benefits rather than harms, we must institute immediate changes
The temporary banning of TikTok in the United States in January prompted concern over the politicization of tech platforms. The two likeliest paths forward for TikTok represent alternate visions of the relationship between Big Tech and government
We’re better-connected today than ever before—but has modern innovation created a new society altogether?
China’s advances in digital-buying make the nation a harbinger of how a post-lockdown global economy could look.
Strengthening the capacity, the data networks, and the community response to win against COVID-19.
In order to map our future, we may look to the past on how health threats changed societies … or did they?
Extremist groups will attempt to take advantage of the turmoil created by COVID-19—and it’s not the first time.
Separating fiction from reality, and corporate interests from true innovation in the new “eco-cities” of the Middle East.
How Affectiva CEO and cofounder Rana el Kaliouby harnesses the power of artificial intelligence to create social change
Drivers, scenarios, and strategic choices for an improved Arab World
New detection system uses robotics to identify the disease, cutting down on time and human error
If the technology sector can ease constraints that have traditionally excluded Arab women from economic opportunities, then both tech and women will greatly benefit.
Biz Stone and Evan Williams changed the way our world talks to itself when they co-founded Twitter five years ago. They spoke with Aspen Institute President and CEO Walter Isaacson about the future of the Internet.
