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Kenya’s Gladys Mosomtai has been named as one of the winners in The Next Einstein Forum’s (NEF) young science & technology champions.
NEF has announced its young science and technology champions. The winners were selected one from each African country, and are all below 42 years old.
Each of the champions drive the NEF’s local public engagement activities while growing their careers through the NEF’s partnerships that offer opportunities for mentorship and collaborations with established researchers.
The following is a list of all the champions, unveiled during the just concluded virtual edition of the NEF Global Gathering (NEF-GG) 2020 in Kigali, Rwanda.
Academic activities in Nigerian universities were suspended between March and December, 2020 due to the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) strike and the lockdown, occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic. Consequently, the academic calendars have been badly ‘injured’. Students in different universities across the country were at various progression stages when the schools were closed. […]
International conference: digital security calls for greater global cooperation GlobeNewswire
2020-12-21
The International Digital Security Forum (IDSF) in Vienna initiated a global dialogue to increase the security of our digital systems
Digital security concerns us all. That is the key takeaway from this year’s International Digital Security Forum (IDSF) which was held in Vienna on 2 and 3 December – in digital format due to the coronavirus. Ensuring the security of our data and digital systems is a key prerequisite for realising the potential offered by digitalisation. All our digital infrastructures must be extremely reliable within a global context, including the omnipresent social media platforms, the video communications systems we currently use while working from home, the widely-used government agency networks and citizens services, digitally networked factories, the data infrastructures supporting healthcare, energy supply and telecommunications,
Access Now 21 December 2020 | 2:29 pm
Dear Members of the Iraqi Council of Representatives,
We, the undersigned organisations, are writing to express our deep concern regarding the provisions contained within the draft Law on Combating Cybercrimes, which was reintroduced before the Iraqi Council of Representatives on November 23, 2020. We are particularly concerned by the draft law’s criminalisation of vaguely defined acts and its use of overly broad terms. Such ambiguous language would enable undue restrictions on the right to freedom of opinion, expression, and the press and does not help prevent cybercrime or ensure effective cybersecurity for Iraqi internet users. As such, we urge you to immediately withdraw or substantially amend the draft legislation to bring it in line with the Iraqi Constitution as well as international human rights law.
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