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Some key data points, about Malta: Malta is among Europe's leading adopters. The country ranks first for workplace AI usage and third overall for general AI ad
by chm02 5mo ago
Some key data points, about Malta:
Malta is among Europe's leading adopters. The country ranks first for workplace AI usage and third overall for general AI adoption. Beyond AI, Malta also has one of the highest rates of social media usage in Europe.
This initiative is less about AI literacy or OpenAI and more reflective of the Malta government's policy of making technology accessible across all society.
It's not the first time either, in the early 2000s a similar partnership with Microsoft which provided heavily subsidized microsoft office licenses.
- bwb 5mo agoHow is press freedom in Malta? Was everyone ever held responsible for the car bombing of Daphne?
- bazzmt 5mo agoPress freedom is absolutely not an issue. Certainly much much better than, say, the UK's where getting arrested for a tweet is common. Regarding DCG's case: trial of the prime suspect due in July I believe. DCG's tragic case was a one-off. Attacks on democracy are much more common and frequent in other Western countries.
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- frabcus 5mo agoReporters without Borders recently released Press Freedom Index 2026 puts Malta 67th, and the UK at 18. So no, certainly not much better - although looking at some of the historic data, it was better e.g. in 2010. https://rsf.org/en/index https://rsf.org/en/index
- nlitened 5mo agoYeah US is 64th lol. Totally unbiased
- chm02 5mo agoI'm not sure what this has to do with AI but press freedom is poorer than most western European countries and the prosecution has left a lot to be desired. There are rumors of a trial happening later this year. As a local the Daphne case has been a sore point and something which makes me very angry and sad. However it's not the only country with debatable press freedom. It's somewhat difficult to know that my country has been reduced to a single bad episode.
- bostik 5mo agoThe assassination of an investigative journalist and its subsequent handling is certainly a symptom of the island's embedded corruption. (And I say this as someone who likes the place!) When gambling and international finance make up >10% of the GDP, that's not unexpected. IIRC gambling and online gaming alone used to be >15% of Malta's economy but that balance has shifted over the past decade. I'd think that the country's regressive anti-abortion laws are a bigger stain on its reputation. You can root out corruption. Moving the nation's Overton window towards a less illiberal stance tends to take a few generations.
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- sdfhbdf 5mo agoMalta is also a very small country. It has a population of around 500,00 and area of around 310 km2. These are roughly the size of Atlanta, Georgia. It’s not hard to have a high adoption rate if your entire population is so small.
- 9dev 5mo agoCurious how on every post about Malta, new accounts show up and post pro-Malta comments…