Priya Dialani believes women are being left behind as the Fourth Industrial Revolution gathers momentum, but has confidence, thanks to the advent of digitization, that digital health leaders can transform the landscape of women’s health by empowering women to take control of their wellbeing as well as supplanting commonly held misconceptions and taboos.

In the absence of universal basic standards and rules for how data is used and how digital markets operate, the world risks missing out on potential solutions to global problems that new technologies have to offer. The leading digital powers must recognize that more alignment is in everyone's best interest.

Social robots in emotional healthcare were designed to support humans by means of social interaction, conversation, and mimicry of human behaviors. They can also be used to provide emotional companionship to humans whenever these humans feel lonely or depressed. Claudia Shettini discusses the role of social robots in emotional healthcare and the ethical issues surrounding them.

Cyber security breaches pose a clear and present danger for Big Pharma firms and hold the potential to cause the sector to lose billions of dollars, and kill millions of people, as well. Information Technology engineer and cyber security expert Pawel Maksymiak explains how bad actors, often working in concert, exploit vulnerabilities to snatch precious troves of patient health data to sell, and company intellectual property to counterfeit.

India’s mobile-Internet and digital-services ecosystem has grown rapidly over the past five years, owing to the pioneering efforts of large private-sector players. This industry-led growth is somewhat unusual, argues Canadian-American economist and Nobel laureate Michael Spence, but it offers a model that could benefit other developing countries.

Dr Aimilios Chalamandaris, a member of the National Council for Research and Innovation of Greece, reveals the development of his nation’s data policy in parallel with the country’s national artificial intelligence strategy.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is betting big on metaverse in the hopes of riding the next technological wave. But is augmented reality the indispensable future he hopes it will be, or will the future’s large corporations crack the personal artificial intelligence assistant code - a super-app that will make life easier and more productive for everyone on the planet - before he does?

Gonzalo Benetti Hernandez discusses agrotechnology in Argentina and how it is flourishing thanks to the merger of two powerful sectors of its economy: agriculture and software development.

As the novel coronavirus evolved from epidemic to pandemic, early research suggested CT scans provided the best diagnosis for COVID-19. It turns out that the information was flawed. Data scientist and Google Scholar Dan Elton takes a closer look at the studies published.

In the past, Africa has often been a bit of a backwater in terms of technology and medical healthcare, but it is fast playing catch up thanks in part to the COVID-19 crisis. The African continent has embraced new technologies post pandemic and is well on its way to implementing a first-rate healthcare system that is the envy of the world.