Nexmo, a telecom carrier that offers communications services from the cloud, had quite the 2014 as it saw the calls to various APIs double. Like its larger and better-known rival Twilio, Nexmo sells… Read more »
Ebook and literacy nonprofit Worldreader is partnering with the UN Refugee Agency on a pilot program to give Kindles to 2,300 secondary school students in African refugee camps. Read more »
The deal the European Commission reached last Wednesday on carbon emissions reductions and renewable energy targets will be remembered as an acknowledgment of the difficult economic times facing Europe as well… Read more »
The UN’s special investigator on the protection of human rights while countering terrorism has opened an investigation into Edward Snowden’s revelations of mass surveillance by the U.S., the U.K. and their… Read more »
GeoPoll is using the lowly SMS to engage with and collect survey data from people in developing countries around the world. It’s one of the many means SMS is being used… Read more »
Developed-world governments are more likely than those in the developing world to spy on their citizens’ online communications, a report from the World Wide Web Foundation has warned. Meanwhile, a U.N… Read more »
According to Germany’s Der Spiegel, the Americans have tapped the United Nations’ internal videoconferencing system. Meanwhile, the NSA has admitted a few analysts used its systems to spy on their love… Read more »