Politics and technology

Ljubljana – The government’s Digital Transformation Office will sign a memorandum of understanding with US internet giant Google on Thursday. The agreement will be the cornerstone document for Google’s investment in Slovenian know-how and solutions in the fields of digital transformation, social entrepreneurship and AI, the office said.

This register enables faster and more efficient performance of administrative tasks. It is one of the four basic registers on which the development of modern e-government is based. All personal data of citizens are now in one place.

EU member-states tamed the initial trend toward medical nationalism that had made an appearance during the first wave of the pandemic. 

When deciding how to order the Covid-19 vaccines, member-states moved in a coordinated fashion. 

The government's proposed legislation for strengthening the Economic and Social Council of Greece (ESC), which is set to be unveiled for public consultation, seeks to act in three directions, Finance Minister of Finance Christos Staikouras stated in the plenary session of the Council on Monday.

Experts told an online debate hosted by the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network on Tuesday that the current regulation systems for online media in the Western Balkans are not good enough, but efforts to curb the publication of hate speech and defamatory comments must not tip over into censorship.

Workathlon is holding a firechat webinar on Thursday on the major challenge the new health protocols are creating for the hotel market.
The event, starting at 3 p.m., will feature a panel of experienced professionals in the sector who are responsible for the adherence to health protocols in hotels.
The webinar will be screened live on Workathlon's Facebook page.

The Bulgarian government and the IT industry must cooperate to create cyber-security infrastructure, said Bulgarian Cybersecurity Association President Miroslav Stefanov during an open discussion on "Public-Private Partnership Opportunities in the Field of Cybersecurity."

Business always goes a few steps, he said.

Cybersecurity is at the heart of the concerns in the European Union's Digital Agenda under the Romanian presidency of the Council of the European Union, and one of the files Romania is managing in this area is the establishment of a European Cybersecurity Competence Centre, Romania's Minister of Communications and Information Society Alexandru Petrescu told AGERPRES on Wednesday while attending

One Saturday in February, Ivan Bartos pitched up in an impoverished Czech neighbourhood mainly inhabited by Roma.

Rock-star thin with shoulder-length dreadlocks tamed in a ponytail, 39-year-old Bartos is the leader of the Czech edition of the Pirate movement, the third biggest party in this landlocked Central European state.

Moldovan NGO Parents in Solidarity launched an online petition on Tuesday asking the authorities to install video surveillance in kindergartens.

The petition was launched after videos were posted on social media by parents who had secretly recorded their children allegedly being abused by staff at kindergartens.