"Young people will inherit a world that’s been dramatically reshaped by today’s technological advances, and some of them are already playing their own active role in defining the evolution of digital platforms and services that are reshaping the world of their elders" Doreen Bogdan-Martin, Director of ITU's Telecommunication Development Bureau. Youth around the world are taking an unprecedented role in conversations around politics and the environment. Despite many being below voting age...

A quick round-up of tech-focused stories recently featured on the ITU News blog. In this episode •How digital transformation can become sustainable; •Technologies helping protect the world’s oceans; •Namibia’s policy to tackle e-waste; •Iceland’s drive for next-generation cybersecurity; •Digital ID expanding financial access across Latin America; •How regulations can help close the world’s digital divide. •And…Mauritius – the small island nation that just deployed its first satellite...

Ageing is becoming a megatrend. Around the world birth rates are declining, while people are living longer, healthier lives. For the first time in human history, people over the age of 60 outnumber those under the age of five. A population predicted to reach 2 billion by the year 2050. To help us prepare for this new reality, the World Health Organization and the United Nations have launched the Decade of Healthy Ageing. From 2021 to 2030, this decade will contain milestones related to the...

Female Digital Entrepreneurship A conversation between Doreen Bogdan - Martin, Director of the ITU Telecommunication Development Bureau, Tara Mulhare, a leader and coach for emerging businesses, and Rebekah Daniel, the head of a start-up in the fashion industry in Ethiopia, on how technology can enhance women’s economic and professional opportunities. Tara and Rebekah share advice to young women who want to use digital tools to expand their businesses, and describe the transformative role...

A round-up of tech-focused stories recently featured on the ITU News blog. In this episode · Women’s voices – and a campaign to amplify them all year long; · How melon farmers bear fruit using digital technologies; · Building trust— for everyone – in digital financial services; · How a professional footballer uses AI to monitor his heart health; · And... Space – not just the final frontier, but an 18th Sustainable Development Goal?

In this episode we are focusing on ICT accessibility - specifically for persons with disabilities. People who identify as living with disability represent 15% of the world’s population, which is currently around 1 billion people. Within this population there exists a very wide array of disabilities encompassing physical mobility, autism and speech delays, persons who are deaf and hard of hearing, and persons with visual disability . Up to 70% of disabilities are invisible but they can still...

THE UNCONNECTED With Andile Ngcaba by ITU

A conversation between Doreen Bogdan-Martin, Director of the ITU Telecommunication Development Bureau and Vint Cerf, Google’s Internet Evangelist and one of the ‘Fathers of the Internet’. A riveting discussion about innovation, motivation and how to connect the unconnected to the Internet and expanding the Internet into space. https://itu.int

Breaking through the glass ceiling all the way into space! Robyn Gatens - NASA's newly appointed Director of the International Space Station, shares insights into space technology and developments, climbing the career ladder, inspiring girls and young women to look at technological study and job opportunities, and more. Producer and Interviewer: Maximillian Jacobson - Gonzalez Technologized is an ITU Podcast series that features one-to-one interviews with luminaries, influencers, experts,...

Highlighting women’s lack of participation online and in the digital spheres of technology and business, tackling online harassment and violence. We hear personal testimonies from female leading lights working and participating in the technological field to address the gender balance and we are also celebrating International Girls in ICT day. This podcast is the tenth episode of “Technology for Good”- an ITU podcast series that focuses on how technology is helping to shape the world around...

A conversation between Doreen Bogdan-Martin, Director of the ITU Telecommunication Development Bureau and Alyssa Carson, NASA astronaut trainee, pilot and student in astrobiology at the Florida Institute of Technology. An enlightening conversation with the female space enthusiast about dreams of going to space, female role models and bringing more girls into science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) careers. https://itu.int

How has the #Coronavirus #COVID-19 crisis affected the telecommunications and information and communications technology industry? How much have voice and web traffic increased and have the networks been able to meet demand? Listen to this "snapshot" podcast and find out... Written and presented by Phillippa Biggs. For more information visit: www.itu.int

Doreen Bogdan - Martin, Director of the ITU Telecommunication Development Bureau in conversation with Pascal Leroy, Director General of the WEEE Forum - the world's largest multi-national centre of competence as regards operational know-how concerning the management of waste electrical and electronic equipment. This podcast interview aims to raise awareness about the role that individual consumers and companies can play in responsible consumption, reuse and recycling of Electric and...

How can technological innovation help us to stay healthy in times of a pandemic? Can we ensure that technology designed to keep us safe doesn't put humans right at risk? If older people are not connected what implications does that really have? Listen to our exclusive technological expert interviewees share their stories and their views, in this latest episode of our podcast series. This podcast is the seventh episode of “Technology for Good”- an ITU podcast series that focuses on how...

How has the #Coronavirus #COVID-19 crisis affected the telecommunications and information and communications technology industry? How has it been coping with falls in handset sales, disrupted distribution channels, cable operators revenues severely affected by cancellation of televised sporting events, are companies halting their investments or ploughing ahead regardless? Listen to this latest ITU "snapshot" podcast and find out... Written and presented by Phillippa Biggs, ITU.

At a recently held session of the ITU Economic Experts Roundtable, experts discussed the importance of having access to quality connectivity in offsetting the negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, and in promoting overall digital inclusion. The COVID-19 crisis has accelerated the existing long-term trends in the telecom industry, such as increased screen time, remote work and learning, dependency on the public cloud providers and digital finance. The role of digital technologies in...

Telecommunications and ICT infrastructure and connectivity is vital now more than ever for the sake of not only all our health but also the health of our economies and our future. Listen to our exclusive technological expert interviewees share their opinions and their perspectives, in this latest episode of our new podcast series. This podcast is the sixth episode of “Technology for Good”- an ITU podcast series that focuses on how technology is helping to shape the world around us. Listen...

How has the #Coronavirus #COVID-19 crisis affected the telecommunications and information and communications technology industry? Have the mobile phone manufacturers been able to meet demand? Internet providers coped with with delivering broadband speed? Students kept up with their virtual classes? Listen to this "snapshot" podcast and find out... Written and presented by Phillippa Biggs. For more information visit: https://www.itu.int

How has the #Coronavirus #COVID-19 crisis affected the telecommunications and information and communications technology industry? How much have voice and web traffic increased and have the networks been able to meet demand? Listen to this "snapshot" podcast and find out... Written and presented by Phillippa Biggs. For more information visit: https://www.itu.int

How has the #Coronavirus #COVID-19 crisis affected the telecommunications and information and communications technology industry? How much have voice and web traffic increased and have the networks been able to meet demand? Listen to this "snapshot" podcast and find out... Written and presented by Phillippa Biggs. For more information visit: https://www.itu.int

With the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic dominating news headlines and affecting over a million people around the world, hear how Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and Artificial Intelligence are playing a key role in combatting the spread.... For more information visit: http://www.itu.int Script: Phillippa Biggs, ITU Presented by: Maximillian Jacobson - Gonzalez, ITU