Alibaba Group is making significant changes to its business structure, combining all of its e-commerce platforms into a single unit called Alibaba Ecommerce Business Group. This new group brings together both the domestic Chinese e-commerce platforms, Taobao and Tmall Group, and the international e-commerce platforms, which include AliExpress, Alibaba.com, and Xianyu. ● This is the […]
Top E-Commerce trends in 2024
Global e-commerce sales are projected to see significant growth in the next few years, with sales projected to reach $8.1 trillion in 2026 and account for 20.6% of all retail sales globally by 2027. With this anticipated growth, retailers are looking for ways to keep pace with the competition by adopting new technologies and strategies […]
Uzbekistan will develop its own artificial intelligence technologies
Uzbekistan recently adopted a Strategy for the Development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Technologies, outlining its ambitious goals for the next six years. The Strategy for 2024-2030 was approved by the President on 14 October 2024. Key targets for AI Growth: The strategy aims to significantly increase the volume of AI-powered software products and services to […]
Huawei offers Turkmenistan innovative solutions for digitalization of education
The delegation of the Ministry of Education of Turkmenistan, headed by Deputy Minister Azat Atayev, took part in the international forum “Huawei Connect 2024:Amplify Intelligence”, which was held in Shanghai from 19 to 21 September. On the sidelines of the forum, the delegation met with Huawei executives, including Vice President Mr. Liu Giy, Dr. J. […]
Kazakhstan is exploring the use of AI in cybersecurity
nCa Report AI (Artificial Intelligence), despite being quite familiar to the regular users of the Internet, is still a kind of a blob when it comes to its definitive use in cybersecurity. The problem here is that there is the real potential for pitching AI against AI. —– If AI is integrated into the […]
EU Artificial Intelligence Act is laudable step toward regulating AI
The EU has introduced the Artificial Intelligence Act, a highly laudable first step toward regulating the AI. It was unveiled on 1 August 2024 and will be fully applicable in two years. The dedicated website ‘EU Artificial Intelligence Act’ provides the updates on the latest developments and offers information on a number of related issues: […]
Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Freedom of Expression in focus of OSCE seminar in Turkmenistan
An OSCE-organized seminar on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its impact on freedom of expression took place on 17 and 18 July 2024 in Ashgabat. The two-day event gave an overview of the legal challenges posed by the emergence of AI and presented initiatives of international organizations aimed at addressing these challenges. Opening the seminar, William […]
Media roundtable in Turkmenistan focuses on fake news, social media – Part Three
nCa Analysis A picture used to be worth more than a thousand words. That was the going price before the AI. Now that the AI has kicked its way into the room, the picture and the word are pasted on the same side of the face – like a bizarre Picasso. The enormity of the […]
Media roundtable in Turkmenistan focuses on fake news, social media – Part One
nCa Report It was stepping into the uncharted territory, literally. — The media roundtable hosted jointly by the foreign office of Turkmenistan and the OSCE Centre in Ashgabat on 14 April 2023 was a unique and unprecedented event. The theme of the roundtable was – “New formats of cooperation in the international information environment.” It […]
ChatGPT is quantum leap opportunity for Central Asia
nCa Report In less than two months of its public debut, ChatGPT has sent shivers down the spine of Google. The New York Times states that Google founders, Page and Brin, have been brought hastily back to Google by Sundar Pichai, the company’s current CEO, after OpenAI’s ChatGPT raised a code red. Here we need […]