The Global Impact of AI and Emerging Technologies: Transforming Nations from New Zealand to the Middle East How AI and other technologies are impacting NZ and other countries, including the Middle EastThe news coming out of the Middle East is largely about wars but there are other things too, mainly AI. To learn more about how AI and other technologies are changing the region, and making it more efficient, go to www.lcdmedia.net. Then we’ve been working on some other stories too. Most are...
over 1 year ago • 2 min read
Like many people, I have been looking at the Middle East's many problems, mainly because I know it so well. I have been thinking of the short time I spent in Bethlehem a few years ago when I traveled there for a conference. I had dinner one evening with a Christian Arab family. I have never kept in touch, unfortunately. I wondered if there are any Christians in the West Bank now, given the heavy losses sustained there. Yes, the killings are happening in the West Bank, as well as in Gaza. I...
almost 2 years ago • 1 min read
The war between Israel and Gaza has dominated the news for the past five months. At LCD Media we’re covering it from the point of view of people in the region, principally from Egypt, from Dubai, and a Gazan journalist living in India. There is a big difference between the way the British, US and other Western media report it and the Middle Eastern press, such as Al Jazeera for example. Looking at the different language that is used by the media in the East and the West is an article by...
almost 2 years ago • 1 min read
Recently, I received a message from a friend in Saudi Arabia- she is from Jeddah but now lives in the country’s capital Riyadh- about a Gazan family desperately trying to leave to go to a country beyond Egypt. Some of her friends had died, others were trying to escape. She was doing what she could to help them. I learned that if you can afford to leave, even to go to Egypt, you must pay about USD 5,000 per person to stay there. However, if it’s only a transit country, then people don’t have...
just now • 2 min read