By Mouna Ben Garga, Innovation Officer CIVICUS
This article is part of a series on the current state of civil society organisations (CSOs), the focus of International Civil Society Week (ICSW)
Sometimes a peak into the future reminds us just how stuck we are in the past and present.
It was the talk of the Middle East’s largest annual media industry gathering: a robot journalist – the region’s first – that wowed some 3,000 industry leaders and practitioners at the Arab Media Forum (AMF) in Dubai recently.
In an address titled “Future News Anchors”, the robot, known as A20-50, waxed lyrical about robots that would report ‘tirelessly’ all day, every day and be programmed to do any task.
Read on: Inter Press Service