Leading National Policies for Enabling Digital Growth
“Governments must develop holistic national digital strategies across industry sectors to connect the unconnected. Portions of COVID-19 stimulus packages should be allocated toward the digitalization of education, healthcare and key industries.”
Micro Business: How to Reboot Start-up Public Policy
“Governments now need to gather data and intelligence on these small firm closures and design a reinforced start-up policy to allow the small business sector to recover. But what kind of start-up policy?”
via OECD Forum
Trends Driving Sovereign Public Cloud Computing Adoption
“Growing nationalistic sentiments sweeping various nations such as the U.S., Europe, and India, will add fuel to the sovereign cloud discussion. The Huawei ban in the U.S., the ban on Chinese apps in India, and reducing dependencies on China across sectors are indicators of emerging nationalistic sentiments.”
via Everest Group
Building a Digital Society and Trust in Europe
Estonia built one of the world’s most advanced digital society long before the COVID-19 pandemic, providing services such as electronic voting, online learning in schools and digital healthcare. Estonia’s success is about much more than technological innovation.
Facial Recognition Regulation will Impact AI Adoption
Facial recognition has emerged as a powerful biometric technology. Revelations about its use in the public domain and by law enforcement have fueled discussion about ethical concerns and corresponding legislative efforts to ban or limit its use.
Exploring the Rise of Smart Video Surveillance
The video surveillance market will nearly double. By 2025, the global annual spend for video cameras will be ~$48 billion, with a CAGR of 12%. This is in spite of temporary declines due to lockdowns associated with pandemic control.
via IDC
Four Rules for Government Protection of Personal Data
“As COVID-19 continues its global surge, a number of governments, scientists and technologists have been exploring how technology, including artificial intelligence, could be used to help “flatten” the novel coronavirus’s curve.”
Global Wireless Spectrum Policy Impacts Wi-Fi Innovation
Once the global regulatory landscape for 6 GHz is finalized, the technology will bring about much higher throughput, much more capacity, greater reliability, lower latency, and better QoS than ever before.
How to Thrive in The World Remade by COVID-19
In the wake of COVID-19, Deloitte and Salesforce hosted a dialogue among some of the world’s best-known scenario thinkers to consider the societal and business impact of the pandemic. What might life be like after the crisis passes, and what will it take to thrive in a world remade?
via Deloitte
Global Smart City Tech Spending to Reach $124 Billion
“The top 100 cities investing in smart initiatives in 2019 represented around 29 percent of global spending, and while growth will be sustained among the top spenders in the short term, the market is quite dispersed across midsize and small cities investing in relatively small projects.”
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