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Tech and Humanitarian Leaders Gather in Geneva to Leverage AI for Good Global Summit (AIGGS) - IFIP News www.ifipnews.org - Shared by IFIP 
The 3rd annual AI for Good Global Summit (AIGGS) is being held this week in Geneva, Switzerland to provide a forum to identify practical applications of AI to help accelerate progress towards the Uni… Share UNCTAD Presents New Framework for STI Policy Reviews - IFIP News www.ifipnews.org - Shared by IFIP As part of its continued push to harness technology for sustainable development, the United Nations Commission for Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has its new framework for assessing whether a nation’… Share 
IITPSA Recognises Tertiary Students with Women in IT Award - IFIP News www.ifipnews.org - Shared by IFIP 
The Institute for Information Technology Professionals South Africa (IITPSA) has awarded a team of final year BCom Informatics students at the University of Pretoria with a Women in IT award for thei… Share Videos 
Outstanding Under-40 Innovators Honoured at Design Automation Conference - IFIP News www.ifipnews.org - Shared by IFIP 
The 56th Design Automation Conference (DAC) and its sponsors, including ACM, have announced the five recipients of this year’s Under-40 Innovators Award. Chinese Academy of Sciences professor Yunji C… Share ACS Report Highlights Blockchain Hurdles - IFIP News www.ifipnews.org - Shared by IFIP 
A new report from the Australian Computer Society (ACS) has revealed that blockchain has substantial challenges to overcome if it ever hopes to find success beyond cryptocurrency. The publication, Bl… Share
CEPIS (Council of European Professional Informatics Societies) has celebrated its 30th anniversary earlier this month, bringing together members and stakeholders for a function exploring best practic…
The International Conference on Management of Data is a leading international forum for database researchers, practitioners, developers, and users to explore cutting-edge ideas and results, and to ex…
The 2019 IFIP Working Group 8.6 conference will be held in Accra, Ghana, from 21– 22 June 2019 with the theme of: “ICT unbounded, Social Impact of Bright ICT Adoption”. Hosted by the University of Gh…
The 17th ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services presents innovative and significant research on the design, implementation, usage, and evaluation of mobile computi…
The German Informatics Society (GI) has announced the leading influential thinkers and technologies from across German AI history. A jury consisting of 18 AI experts made the selections during an int…
The ACM Student Research Competition (SRC), sponsored by Microsoft, has announced its Grand Finals winners. There are two rounds of competition at each conference hosting an SRC, which culminates in …
In 1995, when still very young, you won Malta’s first ever medal at the International Olympiads in Mathematical Informatics. Was that a sign of things to come? It was indeed. The first time I saw a p…
Business has lost the public’s trust, on both sides of the Atlantic and Channel. As a result, regulators are implementing overdue reforms to ensure that business works for all of society. These inclu…
For more than 30 years, governments and international development organizations have followed the same recipe for formalising the world’s informal economy; enacting new legislation and regulations or…
