ITU Blog: Inviting contributions to ITU reports on Smart Sustainable Cities
Although cities account for only two per cent of global land area, they are responsible for more than 70 per cent of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and 60-80 per cent of global energy...
View ArticleITU Blog: Broadband Commission reaffirms crucial role in development
Blog article by Elaine Weidman-Grunewald At the 9th meeting of the Broadband Commission for digital development, discussion centered around how to accelerate progress towards achieving the Millennium...
View ArticleITU Blog: Helping Developing Countries to Establish a National...
When one goes to meetings of ITU-T Study Groups, the expert groups of ITU’s standardization arm (ITU-T), it is quite normal to see more attendees from developing countries than in the past....
View ArticleITU Blog: Girls Get Inspired on Girls in ICT Day
On April 15th, 2014 I had the great pleasure of taking part of Girls in ICT Day at ITU Headquarters in Geneva. Only in its 4th year as a UN recognized International Day, Girls in ICT Day has truly been...
View ArticleITU Blog: Mainstreaming Accessibility: Deafblindness, Assistive Technology...
As a deaf-blind person, I’ve had to fight for seemingly trivial things like the right to access cafeteria menus or participate in rock-climbing. Most of the barriers I have encountered stemmed from...
View ArticleITU Blog: Innovative ICT Solutions for Youth Employment
The latest ITU report, Digital Opportunities: Innovative ICT Solutions for Youth Employment, carries an important message for youth, the private sector, academia and government policy makers seeking...
View ArticleITU Blog: ITU Interns Raise Their Voices – Creating a Better World Post-2015
We, the interns at the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), believe the world has much to gain from hearing our voices and listening to our ideas. Even more so, we believe global development...
View ArticleITU Blog: Young Innovators Competition Issue a Series of Challenges for 2014
The Young Innovators Programme has just closed submissions on the first challenge of its 2014 Young Innovators Competition. The challenge, focused on Local Digital Content, attracted 205 ideas from 55...
View ArticleITU Blog: Vodafone Qatar, ITU-T’s Newest Member
In the year 2000, around 5% of Qatar’s citizens were using the Internet and roughly 20% held mobile-cellular subscriptions. Fast-forward to 2012, an appropriate analogy, and 88% of the population were...
View ArticleITU Blog: Mainstreaming Youth in Post-2015 Development Agenda
The 2014 edition of the ECOSOC Youth Forum recently concluded with a strong endorsement from Member States for the Global Youth Call, which captures the aspirations and combined input of thousands of...
View ArticleITU Blog: Is Copper the Future of Fibre? G.fast and the battle of bandwidth
Attendees at the recent Fixed Access Networks Summit in Berlin contributed to a lively conference. In focus was the upcoming and innovative ITU-T G.fast standard and its potential, in unison with...
View ArticleITU Blog: Connecting the Next 1.5 Billion: making the connection between...
By François Rancy, Director of ITU’s Radiocommunication Bureau The Internet as we know it today has only been around for 25 years, but it has had an immeasurable impact on the way that we live our...
View ArticleITU Blog: Why GEM-Tech? Putting Gender on the ICT Map
It is a fact that women have less access to Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), with 200 million fewer women online globally than men. It is also a fact that women are underrepresented...
View ArticleITU Blog: Full Digital Inclusion by 2020: Challenges and Opportunities
By Dr Hamadoun I. Touré, ITU Secretary-General “The internet is for everyone and therefore needs to be available for everyone,” Kathy Brown, President and CEO of the Internet Society, said when...
View ArticleITU Blog: Ensuring Positive Impacts of Connecting Sustainably
By Houlin Zhao, ITU’s Secretary-General Elect Though there are only 3 billion people connected online, Information and Communication Technology (ICT)-enabled applications have seen unprecedented...
View ArticleITU Blog: Broadband: Innovation in ICT Access, Affordability and Application
Broadband is a critical element in ensuring that Information and Communication Technology (ICT) innovation is enabled around the world; it is the platform on which ICTs are developed and built,...
View ArticleITU Blog: Let’s Create a Better Internet Together
COP Partners’ Initiatives for a Safer Internet Every year, as information and communication technologies (ICTs) become more readily available and widespread, more young people are growing up surrounded...
View ArticleCIS regional initiatives discussed at Regional Development Forum
The ITU Regional Development Forum for the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) was held in Chisinau, Republic of Moldova, from 31 March to 1 April 2015 under the theme “Broadband for Sustainable...
View Article150 years of innovating together
The thematic calendar commences in February with the theme ‘youth and innovation’. There’s a lot to look forward to in 2015 as we celebrate an incredible landmark: ITU’s 150th anniversary. Since 1865,...
View Article#WSIS: A decade of ICTs for Development
10 years ago, the second phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) process was finalized in Tunis. This innovative meeting gathered governments, private sector, civil society and...
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