Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - The Government of Rwanda has published a new biosafety law providing requirements for the transit and utilisation of living modified organisms [...] Full text...
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - In another indicator of the importance of AI oversight, a top UN-appointed human rights expert warned of Monday that the volume [...] Full text...
Paris, France (PANA) - Some of the world’s leading tech companies have signed a ground-breaking agreement with the UN to build more ethical Artificial Intelligence [...] Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Prime Minister of the Government of National Unity, Abdulhamid al Dbaiba, has reaffirmed his support for all scientific activities [...] Full text...
Washington, DC, United States (PANA) - Full disclosure: This issue of Finance & Development was produced entirely with human intelligence. But someday soon at least [...] Full text...
Accra, Ghana (PANA) - The shortage of skilled cybersecurity professionals has reached a record high in 2023, with about 4 million vacancies worldwide. The cybersecurity [...] Full text...
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - The first Pan-African Forum on Digital Professions opened in Cotonou on Wednesday.
Organised by the 10,000-member coders association, a group specialising in [...] Full text...
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Representatives of the space agencies of China and South Africa have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to cooperate [...] Full text...
Paris, France (PANA) - The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) on Thursday called on governments to regulate the use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) [...] Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - On Tuesday in Tripoli, the Committee for Monitoring and Supporting e-Government Projects held its first meeting to discuss ways of protecting [...] Full text...
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – A delegation of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) representatives has arrived in South Africa to inspect the construction [...] Full text...
New York, US (PANA) - The UN Secretary-General addressed the Security Council on Tuesday, emphasising the potential of artificial intelligence to accelerate human development while [...] Full text...
Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritius and Gambia will sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in the field of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) shortly, the [...] Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The importance of creating science cities in Libya is no longer in question, according to the Libyan newspaper, Alsabaah, which points [...] Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Arab Alliances Initiative for Scientific Research and Innovation was launched at the headquarters of the Libyan Scientific Research Authority in [...] Full text...
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The President of Mali's Transition, Colonel Assimi Goïta, Friday laid the foundation stone for the construction of a Centre for Artificial [...] Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Prime Minister, Abdelhamid al-Dbaiba, has said that Libya's young people have proved their ability and readiness to discover, invent [...] Full text...
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The Sentech Africa Tech Week Conference kicked off in Cape Town on Tuesday.
The event is an opportunity for tech [...] Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The missing uranium in Libya has been found in the south of the country, the general command of the eastern-based Libyan [...] Full text...
Vienna, Austria (PANA) - The UN International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has sounded the alarm that about 2.5 tonnes of natural uranium are missing from [...] Full text...
New York, US (PANA) - Gender bias in science has resulted in drug tests that treat the female body as an aberration, and search algorithms [...] Full text...
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - A global internet domain names issuing firm has assured users in Africa of faster access to services on the Internet and [...] Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Minister of Economy and Trade, Mohamed al-Haweij, and the general manager of the Libya branch of the Chinese telecommunications [...] Full text...
Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Monaco Explorations, supported by the commitment of Prince Albert II of Monaco to protect the ocean and promote sustainable management, started [...] Full text...
Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Small island states, like Mauritius, are extremely vulnerable to any chemical attacks by external forces, the Mauritian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Regional [...] Full text...
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - A new platform to promote the use of data science in finding solutions to some of Africa's most-pressing development challenges has [...] Full text...
Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – A Mauritian company has launched a digital platform to facilitate cyber-threat information sharing in the country.
MAUSHIELD has been developed by the [...] Full text...
Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritian Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth on Tuesday denied claims by former CEO of Mauritius Telecom, Sherry Singh, that the government has allowed the [...] Full text...
New York, US (PANA) - While digital technologies have offered “boundless opportunities” for sustainable development, education and inclusion, the UN political chief warned on Monday [...] Full text...
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - A new UN-led push to prevent an arms race in outer space has received wide-ranging support and participation from civil society and Member [...] Full text...
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - More and more young women and girls are highlighting the importance of access and safety in the digital world. Marking International Girls [...] Full text...
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The ministries of Higher Education and Scientific Research of the two neighboring countries signed on Monday a cooperation agreement with 10 [...] Full text...
Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritian Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth announced on Monday that a group of local and foreign scientists and technicians would undertake [...] Full text...
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The second edition of the African Engineering Day "JIA'21" opened Monday here nder the theme "Impact of Engineering on Africa's Development".
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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - An International Conference dubbed "Nexus Science and Diplomacy" scheduled for 29 November to 1 December 2021 in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, [...] Full text...
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - A high-level international conference on science diplomacy and technological innovation will be held here from 29 November to 1 December, [...] Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research and the Chinese telecom giant, Huawei, on Tuesday signed an agreement for [...] Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA)- Libya is to set up a City of Science and Technology to serve as a place for scientific research and which will [...] Full text...
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The Tunisian-African Business Council (TABC) on Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Arab Information and Communication Technology Organisation [...] Full text...
Santa Maria, Cape Verde (PANA) - Mactar Seck, an African expert at the Digital Technologies Programme of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), [...] Full text...
Santa Maria, Cape Verde (PANA) - Although underdeveloped, Africa is the continent where technology growth has been fast, according to Mr. Mactar Seck of the [...] Full text...
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Despite the economic devastation wrought by COVID-19, the new technology sector continued to thrive and prosper last year, the UN’s intellectual [...] Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - An inspection team from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) made a routine inspection visit to the Nuclear Research Centre in [...] Full text...
New York, US (PANA) - Countries which have not yet ratified the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) have been urged by UN Secretary-General António Guterres to [...] Full text...
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The 12th Symposium on Applied Sciences, bringing together scientists, teacher-researchers and entrepreneurs from 14 African countries, the United States, Canada and [...] Full text...
Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The United States of America and Ghana have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) concerning Strategic Civil Nuclear Cooperation (NCMOU), [...] Full text...
Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritian Parliamentarians on Thursday passed the Mauritius Emerging Technologies Council law which is to provide for the establishment of the Mauritius [...] Full text...
Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The first Mauritian nanosatellite, Mauritius Imagery and Radiocommunications Satellite -1 (MIR-SAT1), was launched into low orbit on Tuesday from the International [...] Full text...
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libyan Minister of Economy and Trade Mohamed al-Haweij has said that his ministry, through the National Programme for Small and Medium [...] Full text...
Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - The first Mauritian Satellite project, the nano-satellite, has reached the launch site at Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, US, and will [...] Full text...