Technology / SOURCE REPORTQuantum computing has a noise problem that is easy to state and hard to solve. The qubits at the heart of a quantum computer are fragile: any disturbance from heat, vibration or stray electromagnetic fields can corrupt the information they hold. Building a machine that can correct its own mistakes is the central engineering challenge, […]
Technology / SOURCE REPORTEvery year the world buys more electronics and discards more of them. The Global E-waste Monitor, produced by UNITAR and ITU, estimates that around 62 million tonnes of e-waste were generated in 2022, and that only about a fifth of it was formally collected and recycled. The rest was incinerated, dumped, or processed informally. Those […]
Technology / SOURCE REPORTThe OECD AI Policy Observatory catalogues national AI policies. That is not the same as measuring governance — enforcement, outcomes and system behaviour sit outside the inventory.
Technology / SOURCE REPORTThe daily forecast is the visible end of an international chain of observations, models, warnings and communication. The system behind it is the real public asset.
Technology / SOURCE REPORTNASA's Earthdata makes observations public. Communities can turn data into local decisions only when scale, interpretation and local knowledge are addressed.
Technology / SOURCE REPORTThe World Bank's ID4D work links identity systems with service access — and with the risk of excluding people who lack documents, connectivity or accessible enrolment routes.
Technology / SOURCE REPORTThe ITU Global Cybersecurity Index measures national capacity, not real-time safety. It is a diagnostic for policy gaps — not a verdict on whether any organisation is protected.
Technology / SOURCE REPORTDigital-government projects usually fail on governance and process design, not on software. Identity, payments and trusted data sharing need legal safeguards to reach the service counter.
Technology / SOURCE REPORTITU's 2025 figures put about 2.2 billion people offline. The more useful question is affordability, skills, devices and reliable use.
Technology / SOURCE REPORTDigital public infrastructure can widen access — but trust depends on enrolment, oversight and error correction, not just on better software.