Dual-use technology refers to technologies that have both civilian and military applications. The Canadian government, along with its NATO allies, has committed to an increased annual defence spending ...

Amidst unprecedented and rapid changes to U.S. foreign assistance, the global development agenda is in flux. These changes raise fundamental questions about the future of U.S. development policy and ...

DeepSeek, a Chinese tech startup, is gaining traction in developing nations, narrowing the AI adoption gap with advanced economies ...

The first is that using AI involves the application of statistical methods to identify patterns, propose hypotheses (predictive, generative AI), simulate, and ultimately stimulate scenarios. In other ...

Many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) face critical shortages of doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals, a challenge that could deepen with the recent cancellation of U.S. global ...

The World Bank supported 64 countries in building cyber resilience between 2014 and 2024. Between 2015 and 2018, the World Bank helped establish Bhutan’s national Computer Security Incident Response ...

Something remarkable is unfolding in developing countries. From Nepal to Costa Rica, more people are buying electric cars than fossil-fuel vehicles, as battery prices plummet and cheap home-grown EVs ...

Fear of new technology is not new. Whether new technology will replace human beings is a question that has been haunting humankind from time immemorial.