Navigating the EU AI Act
In August 2025, a significant part of the EU’s AI Act, affecting general purpose AI, comes into effect. The Act aims to provide a comprehensive legal framework for AI, [...]
USAID closure impacts global smart health
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) officially closed on July 1, 2025. The agency’s functions and foreign aid programmes have been absorbed by the US State Department. [...]
Australia’s evolving IoT regulations
Australia’s regulatory approach to the Internet of Things is a blend of existing sector-agnostic legal frameworks and an emerging body of IoT-specific cybersecurity measures. In particular, the passing of [...]
Regulating India’s IoT landscape
This is the first of two articles looking at regulation of IoT in India, and government initiatives to promote development, manufacturing and adoption in the country. This first article [...]
Japan launches IoT cyber label scheme
Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) has gone live with its STAR-1 labelling scheme for IoT cybersecurity. Vendors of IoT devices and technologies can now begin the [...]
Canadian Government Precision Ag Programmes
Agriculture is vitally important to Canada’s economy and food security. It plays a major role in the country’s exports, employment, and overall GDP. The country’s agriculture and agri-food sector [...]
Mexico to modernise energy infrastructure
Mexico hopes to reverse years of under-investment in the country’s power infrastructure with new measures and an opening to public-private partnerships and private capital. In February, the country’s Senate [...]
EU announces Clean Industrial Deal
The European Commission has launched a business plan to increase the competitiveness and resilience of European industry. The Clean Industrial Deal aims to secure the future of manufacturing in [...]
EU Climate Law 2040
The EU is set to introduce a new Climate Law in spring. This will set a course of CO2 targets through to the Year 2040. It will have a [...]
Digitally Transforming Africa
Africa, a continent of nearly 1.5 billion people, with a nominal GDP of US$2.82 trillion and a PPP-equivalent GDP of US$10.77 trillion, is one of the fastest growing global [...]
EU €200bn AI fund, drops Liability Directive
The European Union is planning to invest €50 billion in development of AI. The sum was announced by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in February. The new [...]
US announces AI Data Centre Initiative
A day after becoming President, Donald Trump announced the Stargate Project, a multinational joint venture that plans on investing $500 billion to build ten AI data centres in Texas. [...]
