The gaming industry has changed drastically over the years: from cartridges and CDs to digitally distributed games, not only for gaming consoles, but for social networks and mobile devices as well. It is the future of gaming and NPD has numbers to prove it. According to NPD’sGames Industry: Total Consumer Spendreport for Q1 2011, $1.85 billion was spent on non-traditional means of acquiring and experiencing video game content including used game purchases, game rentals, subscriptions, digital full-game downloads, social network games, downloadable content and mobile games in the U....

It has taken three years, 1.45 million Egyptian pounds, and an entire city mapped out from scratch, but Egypt may finally have an online map service that rivals, and could possibly even overtake, Google Maps.Digital Egyptis behind one of the most detailed maps of Egypt, available both in English and in Arabic. But Digital Egypt has provided more than just a map, putting together a Global Information System (GIS), the first of its kind in the country....

Digital governance is the ‘new normal’ — here’s how we can keep it ethical The Netherlands: an overview A 2018McKinsey reportranked the nation as one of nine “digital front-runners” which boasts higher rates of productivity (which is measured by average GDP in euros per hours worked) and lower rates of unemployment than other central and eastern European countries. The2019 EU e-Government benchmarkranked the usability of the Netherlands’ digital government services at 100%, the mobile-friendliness of digital government at 90%, and the adoption of digital government services online at 80%, the latter of which is considerably higher than the EU average of 57%....

Eleven of the UK’s top digital companies have been selected to join theUK Trade and Investment‘sDigital Missionto Washington DC, from the 11th to the 15th of July. Entering its seventh year, the trade mission is designed to help UK-based digital firms build their business in the US. This will be the first time the trip has taken place in Washington DC. It will also be the first digital mission to focus on digital government, open data and the use of technology for social innovation meeting....

Digital trends 2021: Every single stat marketers need to know Close to half a billion new social media users. 1.3 billion years spent using the internet. Trillions of dollars spent on ecommerce. The Digital 2021 Global Overview Report You’ll find our complete Digital 2021 Global Overview Report in the SlideShare embed below (click hereif that’s not working for you), but read on below for my analysis of this year’s top stories....