News about Digitalization
Moldovan President Maia Sandu has urged citizens to be as vigilant as possible against the backdrop of increasing cases of telephone fraud.
Major technology companies including Meta, ByteDance, Snap and YouTube have agreed to pay $27 million to settle claims by a school district in the US state of Kentucky. The schools accused the platforms of exacerbating a mental health crisis among students.
The Republic of Moldova takes another step towards European economic integration. The Ministry of Economic Development and Digitalization and the Swedish National Board of Trade (NBT) signed a Memorandum of Cooperation for the period 2026-2028.
Ukrainian law enforcers together with the cyber police of Kazakhstan exposed a large criminal organization in Odessa.
Cab app owners will be obliged to make all payments in Moldova only through local banks or legal payment systems.
At the summit of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council in Astana on May 29, the leaders of the EAEU countries adopted a joint Statement on the responsible development of artificial intelligence (AI).
The program will be structured around several priority areas: developing financial services and digital payments, protecting financial consumers, and strengthening financial education.
The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) will improve its response to cyber threats by creating a specialized unit and expanding its staff.
Integration processes within the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) are strengthening, which will allow mutual trade volumes to reach $100 billion in 2026.
The first shipments of the T1 Phone smartphone, better known online as the “trampophone,” have begun in the US, but the launch has been far less triumphant than advertised. The device, which is being promoted by Trump Mobile, a company linked to Donald Trump’s family, is already being called one of the most controversial tech releases of the year.
After raising $65 billion in investment capital in a new subscription round, tech startup Anthropic has beaten Ilon Musk’s OpenAI to a business valuation.
Russian universities may return to the practice of oral defense of diplomas amid the rapid development of artificial intelligence. Valery Falkov, Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, said that traditional written work is becoming less and less reflective of students’ real knowledge, as modern AI services are able to create high-level texts in a matter of minutes.
Remote purchase of medicines will become legal in the Republic of Moldova. The bill, signed by MPs Adrian Beli and Anna Oglinde, proposes to establish a legal framework for the conduct of pharmaceutical activities through information society services, officially paving the way for the emergence of online pharmacies.
The company introduced paid subscriptions for Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp – Instagram Plus, Facebook Plus and WhatsApp Plus. In parallel, the company is testing tariffs for authors, businesses and users of AI services.
The problem of financial pyramids and fraudulent schemes in the online environment is back on the agenda of the legislative body. Grigore Novak, an opposition MP and chairman of the commission for human rights and interethnic relations, demanded official explanations from the Interior Ministry’s leadership regarding the measures taken against platforms that promise quick earnings but “deprive citizens of their last savings”.
The Investment Agency will organize Moldova Business Week 2026. It is scheduled for September 28 – October 2, 2026. Pre-registration is available at mbw.md.
A group of the world’s leading central banks and more than 40 major commercial banks are stepping up testing of one of the world’s most closely watched digital payments projects, Agora, as the race to modernize and dominate the international financial architecture heats up.
Accelerating the digital transformation of the financial sector will be the main topic of the international conference of the Group of Banking Supervisors of Central and Southeastern Europe (BSCEE), which is held by the National Bank on May 28-29. The event will bring together governors and experts of central banks of 24 BSCEE member countries, as well as representatives of international and European financial institutions.
Amendments to the Act on the Procedure for Day Laborers Performing Casual Unskilled Work, which provides for the digitization of the Register of Day Laborers, have been published and are effective as of June 1 of this year.
The World Bank will provide Moldova with a grant of $350 thousand for the development of the information system “Register of pledges of movable property”.
