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US infrastructure plan will narrow digital divide

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US

However, like many other important sections in the bill, the funding for new digital infrastructure has been cut drastically. Although digital access is a policy priority, it took…

EU digital single market progress may accelerate

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EU

The EU’s digital single market.

Europe’s Three Seas Initiative will make slow progress

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EUROPE

The war in Ukraine has highlighted 3SI, a project that aims to raise investment in Central-Eastern Europe, as a means to build resilience on the eastern flank of the EU and NATO…

Pandemic dampens South-east Asia's digital agenda

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SOUTH-EAST

Although internet use in the region fell slightly after lockdown conditions were lifted, it is still above pre-pandemic levels. Yet the region’s digital divide is extensive…

Biden will reform internet market as 5G expands

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UNITED STATES

The measures address the digital divide that the COVID-19 pandemic has further exposed. Among low-income and remote communities, commercial internet service can be slow and…

Chinese-US rivalry constrains undersea cable expansion

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CHINA/US

The central role of the western Pacific region in this infrastructure, with its dense connections to both sides, complicates US and Chinese efforts at mutual isolation.

Policy will be key to supporting cashless consumption

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INTERNATIONAL

Cashless society transformation.

Western tech firms will expand in South-east Asia

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SOUTH-EAST ASIA

Although several countries, including Thailand and Vietnam, also have laws which restrict the internet -- and affect foreign tech companies through data localisation and other…

Infrastructure is key to Colombian government goals

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COLOMBIA

Petro is uncomfortable with public-private partnerships, but appears willing to look beyond that in pursuit of broader development goals; improved infrastructure is considered…

China cross-border finance system will not aid Russia

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INT

One of these is SWIFT, the global interbank messaging system from which Russian banks have been largely excluded since the invasion. This issue has drawn attention to China’s…