Royal Commonwealth Society  -  Ottawa

The pan-African accelerator and lab will gather trailblazers in the African tech industry to discuss how blockchain and artificial...

• An online time capsule made up of content generated by young people around the Commonwealth and covering each day of the last 60 years....

A program of Prince’s Charities Canada (PCC), Prince's Operation Entrepreneur (POE) delivers education, training, tools and resources to...

The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation’s data innovation unit Data61 has released two reports on long term...

Africa is overwhelmingly the poorest region in the world. In 2015, after more than a decade of the “Africa Rising” narrative, the...

Most of the attention around automation focuses on how factory robots and self-driving cars may fundamentally change our workforce,...

Most adults are connected, now what? A presentation on how technology is becoming a commodity, where software will add value, and how...

Africa’s startups are seizing an opportunity they say Google and Apple Inc. have missed -- making apps for non-smartphones. In a region...

Incredibly, we might actually get a chance at a do-over — of our cities, our fossil fuel dependence, and the social contract with...

A new mobile app could make childbirth safer in Ethiopia, home to one of the highest rates of maternal deaths in the world. “Safe...

The fourth industrial revolution is upon us. The combination of enhanced computational power and extensive digital connectivity is...

Parliamentarians from countries in Asia and the Pacific learned about legislative and policy responses to overcome threats to...

Refugees arriving in Germany likely treat their smartphones as a lifeline and a way to break the ice with locals in their host country....

In Africa, local taxi companies and startups have been working hard to compete with Uber but the ride hailing company has managed to...

We have a bias towards stories of African innovation in the sense of big ideas, creative vision, entrepreneurship and homegrown, globally...

There’s too much money in Nairobi. That’s one way to explain why some venture capitalists are setting their sights elsewhere. Largely...

Distributed power—where electricity is generated locally, instead of delivered via complex grid infrastructure—makes lots of sense for...

Ahead of Venezuela’s pivotal parliamentary elections on Dec. 6, journalists and civil groups deployed digital tools developed in Africa...

Facebook's aspiration of providing free internet to the parts of the world where it isn't available, has been met with criticism....