Information Policy

Microsoft launches Internet-of-Things laboratory in Kyiv

Microsoft Ukraine has launched an Internet of Things (IoT) laboratory, as reported earlier this month by Ukrainian tech blog AIN.UA. Ukrainian projects willing to work in this field will be selected to receive an equipped working space to study and work.

Propaganda and Freedom of the Media

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Back To School: IAB Unveils Digital Training, Includes 'Certification' Prep

In a sign of how complex the digital ad business has become, the Interactive Advertising Bureau this morning will announce a new training program for industry professionals to bone up, get schooled and develop their professionalism amid constant change and innovation.

IAB Europe: Europe’s booming online ad industry accounts for 1.4 million jobs, € 100 billion of Gross Value Added (GVA)*, new study reports

Online advertising has expanded from a nascent industry into a powerhouse over the past decade and a half.  It now generates over a million jobs in the EU-28 economy, and contributes more than € 100 billion of gross value added (GVA)*. The figures are estimates published today in a study produced by IHS and sponsored by IAB Europe, “Paving the way: online advertising in the European economy”.

Three Priorities for Cyber Diplomacy Under the 2016 German OSCE Chairmanship

Dr Annegret Bendiek is Senior Associate and Head of Project at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP). Christoph Berlich und Tobias Metzger are Project Staff on “The challenges of digitalization for German Foreign and Security Policy”, a project funded by the German Federal Foreign Office. The SWP advises the German Parliament and the German Government in all matters of foreign and security policy.