With support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the United Nations this month launched its “50-in-5” campaign to promote and accelerate the development of a global digital public infrastructure. One critic called the campaign “a totalitarian nightmare” designed to “onboard” small countries with “digital ID, digital wallets, digital lawmaking, digital voting and more.”
Major international bodies have rejected a ‘parallel government’ in Sudan, warning it could deepen divisions and derail peace efforts amid ongoing war...