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On April 30, 2021, the Government of Ontario introduced Building a Digital Ontario, the province's new digital and data strategy, which lays the foundation for Ontario to become "the...

THE STANDARD EDUCATION TSC chief executive Nancy Macharia at the release of KCSE 2020 results in Nairobi on May 10, 2021. [Boniface Okendo,Standard] The government will launch a transparent process of biometric enrolment and validation of teachers in public schools to curb irregularities.  It will entail enlisting their fingerprints, which can then allow for forensic and intelligence-led investigations in cases where examination papers are tampered with, and where cell phones and other gadgets...

Waterford, Ireland / WLR Apr 23, 2021 12:32 PM Sinn Feins David Cullinane, the partys health spokesperson, has commented on the Mental Health Commission report A local TD remains confident the Data Protection Commissioner won’t find any wrongdoing by his party over their voter database. Sinn Féin leader, Mary Lou McDonald admitted this week that there were one or two minor breaches of requirements. But Waterford’s David Cullinane says there is nothing of concern in the database as it’s s...

Schools, churches put on data protection watchlist Summary The regulations, which are part of Data Protection Act that was signed by President Uhuru Kenyatta in November 2019, set out restrictions on how personally identifiable data obtained by firms and government entities can be handled, stored and shared. Data processors or controllers will pay a certification fee of Sh250,000. Businesses will also be charged registration and annual renewal fees of between Sh1,000 and Sh20,000 depending on ...

Article content When Justin Trudeau’s Liberals turned their backs on balanced budgets during the 2015 election campaign, the strategy paid off handsomely politically. Canadians were fed up with a government so stingy that it was neglecting its core missions. Some were concerned that the dike painstakingly built by Paul Martin, as finance minister under Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, to protect the country’s financial health, was being so casually lowered. But the public believed the Liberal...

Citizens’ data on Covid was illegally mined, says new report HEALTH & SCIENCE A man wearing PPEs looks from a balcony in Nairobi. [Elvis Ogina, Standard] State and private companies illegally harvested and shared Kenyans’ private data during the Covid-19 pandemic in direct breach of the Data Protection Act, 2020. This is according to a new report that details how the pandemic fuelled infringements to citizens’ privacy, freedom of expression and access to information in Kenya and Uganda o...

Federal government looks to “punch our way out of the COVID recession” with #Budget2021 The federal government has published its Budget 2021, which focuses on addressing the third wave of the pandemic and economic recovery. The commitments include targeted funding towards the tech and innovation sector as a way to support that recovery. The Government of Canada called the budget “a plan to bridge Canadians and Canadian businesses through the crisis and towards a robust rec...

PN says information database targeted in cyber-attack Nationalist Party information technology systems and information database targeted in cyber attack, party says 19 April 2021, 9:48pm by Karl Azzopardi Zammit Dimech said the attack was aimed at the party’s information technology systems and information databases.  All necessary measures have been taken to minimise the attack’s impact. The police and the Data Commissioner have been informed of the attack and have begun their investigati...

Canadian budget leads with digital tax and IT investments By Josh Lowe on 20/04/2021 Canada’s new digital investments are designed to boost online public services and help businesses adapt to the digital world. Picture by Benoit Rochon Canada has announced plans for a digital sector tax and new funds for civil service IT projects, publishing a federal budget containing a swathe of announcements on technology initiatives for the private and public sectors. Headline policies in the budget, unve...

Coffee Briefings deliver our entire audience –  the IT administrators and channel partners as well as the C-Suite – a complete news package with the latest headlines, interviews, and social media chatter. These briefings drop on Tuesday mornings. Today’s Coffee Briefing Listen to the latest episode of Hashtag Trending The massive Rogers and Fido outage leaves customers without precious data nationwide, Elon Musk says Starlink should be fully mobile by the end of 2021, and NASA success...