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Digital Planet: Pakistan Elections and Censorship

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Students in Pakistan look at their phones

24/07/2018 GMT

Pakistan Elections and Censorship

BBC World Service - Digital Planet, Pakistan Elections and Censorship

Censorship and social network use in the Pakistan elections.

Pakistan elections & censorship; secure voting at the mid-term US elections; AI to help with breast cancer detection; Orbus sign

Social networking platforms will figure prominently in Pakistan’s elections. On the eve of the elections, Click talks to Umber Khairi and Samira Shackle who recently produced an Index on Censorship report on abuses through social network platforms. This edition of Click was recorded before polls opened and before the incidents of violence and deaths. 

US authorities are now convinced that Russia successfully interfered in the 2016 election – hacking both Democrats and Republicans. That belief has spurred fears of a recurrence in 2018. Marian K. Schneider discusses what can be done to secure voting in the midterm US elections.

A company based in Wellington, New Zealand is using AI and software to standardise mammograms, so that these x-rays, which are mostly digital, can be used to accurately measure changes in a woman’s breast tissue, and then assess a woman’s risk from breast cancer. Simon Morton reports.

Orbus Sign is a digital voice signature solution that allows users the option of signing electronically by pronouncing a word or expression. Conceived for signing one or multiple electronic documents by voice recognition, it offers a unique means of confirming identity. Sasha Gankin talks to Magat Mbaye one of the developers of the ORBUS Sign.


(Photo: Students use their phones in Pakistan © AAMIR QURESHI/AFP/Getty Images)                                         


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