The Middle East and North African (MENA) countries including Tunisia, Jordan and Lebanon have started announcing plans for progressive ease of lockdown and curfew measures

Satellite communications specialist IEC Telecom has introduced satellite-based networking management solution OneGate Aid Compact to improve the efficiency of first responders in regional communities across the Middle East and Africa amid the COVID-19 pandemic

The Arab Academy for Science Technology and Maritime Transport in Sharjah (AASTS) has started implementing e-learning for the second semester in the College of Maritime Transport Technology

A satellite that American University of Ras Al Khaimah (AURAK) students are helping to develop, build and test is planned for launch on a Soyuz-2 rocket from Russia in June 2020, said Dr Abdul-Halim Jallad, director and assistant professor, Center of Information, Communication and Networking Education and Innovation (ICONET)

Around 29 per cent of data centre decision-makers said that their current facilities are meeting their needs and six per cent said that the data centres are updated ahead of their needs, according to a report from Forbes Insights and Vertiv