Commonwealth News
Saint Lucia National Day
Saint Lucia Day (National Day) marks the beginning of the Christmas season. On the Eve of St. Lucia's Day, a grand festival of lights will be held in Castries, the capital of the island. The day also includes a competition to decorate lanterns and fireworks.
Commonwealth ministers adopt new model law to strengthen data protection rules
Commonwealth law ministers approves to update and adopt a new model law on data protection. This Commonwealth law model will handle the personal data of about 2.5 billion people. The law will be helpful in cyber related crimes, technology and cross-border data...
Kenya Jamhuri Day
“Jamhuri” in Swahili means republic. This day is celebrated with feasts, political speeches, parades, and dancing. On the 59th Jamhuri Day, celebrations will be held at the Nyayo stadium in the nation's capital of Nairobi. This year, a special theme has been...
Tanzania Independence Day
Tanzania’s President, Samia Suluhu Hassan, has cancelled the 61st Independence Day festivities and has decided instead to spend the budget on upgrading primary schools for children. Instead of parades and other celebrations about $445,000 (£364,000) of the budget will...
Sanctuary secures 30 million from Canadas SIF to build robots with human-like intelligence
Sanctuary Cognitive Systems, a Canadian AI and robotics company receives about $30 million of investment funds from the federal government. The startup is on a mission to create the world’s first operational robot with human-like intelligence and could hire more than...
Top Hat acquires STEM edtech startup Aktiv Learning
Top Hat, a Toronto-based online education platform agrees to acquire Aktiv Learning, a next-gen STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education startup. During the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly in Canada, the number of graduates with technical...