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ITU Secretary-General Doreen Bogdan-Martin has been awarded the 2023 IEEE President's Award for her “distinguished leadership and contributions to the public."

Exploring generative AI, this technological advancement fosters the concept of getting things done in a smarter way as it uses deep-learning models to create something new: an image, text or video. The popular ChatGPT, for example, only needs to be prompted with words or phrases, and within seconds, it delivers a human-like generated text.

According to Atlas VPN, Russian hackers have been increasingly sophisticated in their attacks against the government and IT organizations of Ukraine and its allies.

MEF, a global industry association of network, cloud, and technology providers accelerating enterprise digital transformation, announced its first annual Global Network-as-a-Service Event (GNE), designed to showcase the latest developments and roadmaps for secure network-as-a-service (NaaS) offerings for enterprises and businesses.

There is no doubt that the Internet can be an extremely useful tool for everyone, especially the younger generation. Over ninety percent of teens are using the web every day, with social media playing a big role in their digital experience. However, with the existence of instant messaging, chat rooms, emails and social networking sites, there is a huge landscape for internet dangers, and this is why parents must get involved.

Dubai is steadily reinforcing its position as a global hub for cutting-edge technologies and a major center for digital business models and transformational initiatives, according to H.H. Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of the Dubai Executive Council.

In an effort to reduce costs amid a bleak economic outlook, Accenture plans to eliminate 19,000 jobs globally.

Demonstrating the considerable impact of Saudi Arabia’s sweeping digital transformation efforts, the Kingdom’s ICT market is now the largest and fastest-growing in the Middle East and North Africa, having reached a total market size of SAR 154 billion in 2022.

The rush of layoffs that began last year has yet to diminish, with executives across sectors having let go close to half a million employees worldwide.

Along the sidelines of the World Summit on the Information Society Forum (WSIS Forum 2023), the High-Level Policy Session 1 took place, tackling the topic of “Bridging Digital Divides.” Among the esteemed panelists was Dr. Bilel Jamoussi, chief, study groups department, standardization bureau, International Telecommunication Union (ITU).