ISLAMABAD: In February 2016, Pakistan’s parliament did what it had never done before. It became one of the world’s first parliaments to formally adopt United Nation’s (UN) Sustainable Development ...

The world is entering the era of digital economy and society. Information and communications technologies (ICTs) are increasingly integrated into and enabling every economic and social aspect. The ...

ABOUT two weeks ago, I delivered my contribution to the Sectoral Debate in Parliament. It was my second such presentation as minister of state in the Ministry of Science, Technology, Energy, and ...

This paper studies the impact of information and communication technologies (ICT), especially mobile phone rollout, on economic growth in a sample of African countries from 1988 to 2007. Further, we ...

The recent State of the Nation Address (SONA) highlighted how the country’s prosperity hinges on digital inclusion and technological advancement. As President Cyril Ramaphosa outlined the government's ...

Ed Cutrell manages the Technology for Emerging Markets group at Microsoft Research India. His is a cognitive psychologist with a background in cognitive neuroscience and has been working in the field ...

Revolutionary advances in technology have the potential to “fundamentally transform” billions of lives, but the threat that many people – especially in the world’s poorer countries – could be left out ...

Bangladesh, which has spent tens of thousands of crore taka for ICT development in the last 15 years, lags behind its peer economies in a key ICT global index. Bangladesh scored only 61.1 in the ICT ...