Digital

Italy Joins Internet Rights ‘Club’

By Andrea Pettrachin
Italy has finally joined the restricted club of states in the world that have chosen the constitutional path for regulating the Internet – or at least has taken a significant step in that direction – by adopting a Declaration of Internet Rights.

German Development Cooperation Piggybacks Onto Africa’s E-Boom

By Francesca Dziadek
In a major paradigm shift, the German government is now placing its bets on digitalisation for its development cooperation policy with Africa, under what it calls a Strategic Partnership for a ’Digital Africa’.

Giving Villages the Technology They Want

By Kalinga Seneviratne
Mobile broadband services are seen as a key tool of development communication the world over, but people in rural Asia and Africa say telecom companies should cater to their needs and not simply impose technology on them.