Report: How Asia Confronts COVID-19 through Technology

""   More and more governments in the West, including in the Netherlands, are preparing the use of health and contact tracing smartphone applications in order to counter COVID-19. The introduction of such technologies evokes complex and important questions on their efficacy, the potential impact on privacy and fundamental rights, and the extent to which […]

Preliminary Report: How Asia Confronts COVID-19 through Technology

The Leiden Asia Centre has published a preliminary report on how regions in Asia confront COVID-19 through technology. This publication contains the executive summaries of a more detailed report on this topic that will appear early May. The preliminary report is partly a response to the Dutch government’s exploration of the possible use of technology, […]

China’s Role in Cyber Security

The rapid development of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and the emergence of China as a primordial global power are two of the most impactful political events of our generation. They are also profoundly intertwined at various levels: China not only sees ICTs as essential to its continued development, it is also enmeshed in rapidly […]