Background (Reuters), March 21st, 2021:
Jordan on Sunday made public a defence agreement with the United States that allows free entry of US forces, aircraft and vehicles onto the kingdom’s territory. Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi told parliament that the defence accord was “the fruit of long negotiations”.
The spread of meditation across continents and cultures suggests it has always addressed a most intrinsic human need. Zen Buddhist meditation predated the recorded birth of Jesus by 500 years and was present in Asia Minor and Alexandria during His life. In the West, by 20BCE Philo of Alexandria has…
The thesis submits that current modalities of Internet governance are failing because they are predicated on political ideas, economic systems and legal structures which no longer reflect twenty-first century existence. The paper advances this argument in four main ways.
The first is by examining the ideology and cartographic technology of…
As development on an automated PR system moves to the center of Al Bawaba’s monetization plans, COVID-19 has had a positive impact on moving the dev cycle along quickly. A dedicated CMS dashboard has now been added to the front-end filmed a couple of weeks ago below (the front-end is…
Can artificial intelligence have character? What’s it like to visualize the brain in VR? How can software be programmed to identify the biomarkers of disease or provide a diagnosis that is often more accurate than a human. How is haptic feedback making physical space more accessible to people of determination?
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During a slightly uncomfortable arrival in COVID-19 lockdown Dubai, I was asked to present a digital monetization strategy. The broad outlines had been discussed for over a year, as I focused on moving away from capacity building Al Bawaba English towards what seemed to be the next iteration for the…
One reasons for a lack of outside investment in the Middle East tech industry is a lack of reliable data. Over the past decade Venture Capital (VC) has been slowly transforming the SME space, but mapping this process hasn’t always been easy.
We’ll be going into a deep-dive into the…
A key theme of the UAE Tech Podcast is the emerging synergy between government services and digital transformation. It’s not something that is often talked about in the regional entrepreneurship circuit, or in local tech blogs and media. …
Near horizon advances in AI are changing the speed, chain of command, security relationships and conventions of accountability that govern global security in the Twenty First Century.
A U.S. Air Force general summarized a sense of the change as follows: “The B-52 lived and died on the quality of its…
The Internet began at once within and against government. The 1969 the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPANET) consisted of a few connected computers located in the basement of university and military buildings (Verhulst et al, 2016, p. 98).
A decade later an important stage in the development of Internet regulation…
