On June 28 Global CIO Forum, in partnership with Bahrain’s Artificial Intelligence Society, hosted the second session, in Arabic, of the BotTalk AI Virtual Conference. The topics discussed included AI Ethics, R...
Ahead of a major pledging summit, they updated journalists on a recently announced initiative to speed up production of these treatments, known as the Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator. “It’s clear tha...
On Olympic Day, 23 June 2020, the International Olympic Committee and WHO together with the United Nations launch a partnership to encourage individuals and communities around the world to be #HEALTHYTogether. ...
Addressing journalists from Geneva during the agency’s regular press briefing, WHO Director General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said that more than 9.1 million cases of COVID-19 have been reported thus far, an...
On June 21, Global CIO Forum in partnership with Bahrain’s Artificial Intelligence Society, hosted the region’s first BotTalk, titled AI in Navigating the Pandemic. The virtual event was held under the patronag...
As further demonstration of its commitment to deliver equality of experience for all segments of society, Egypt’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, MCIT, has joined forces with United Natio...
“It seems that almost every day we reach a new and grim record”, said Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, addressing journalists on Monday at the UN health agency’s latest media briefing. Some countrie...
Yoga is an ancient physical, mental and spiritual practice that originated in India and is now practiced in various forms around the world. The word “yoga” derives from Sanskrit and means “to join or unite”, sy...
More than 150,000 new cases of the disease were reported on Thursday: the highest single daily total so far. Most were in the Americas, though “large numbers” came from South Asia and the Middle East. “The worl...
A new study suggests that denser places, assumed by many to be more conducive to the spread of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, are not linked to higher infection rates. The study, led by a researcher at t...