Case Studies on eHealth: Achieving MDGs
Eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were agreed upon by world leaders at the Millennium Summit in 2000, which aimed at reducing world poverty, increasing the rate of development and improving...
View ArticleMainstreaming Accessibility: Deafblindness, Assistive Technology and Advocacy
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 ArticleInnovative 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 ArticleWSIS+10 HIGH-LEVEL EVENT: PRE-EVENT MEETINGS 9TH June 2014
The pre-event meetings on 9 June 2014, on the eve of the WSIS High-Level event, will give us an opportunity to take stock of achievements, brainstorm on future outcomes and build a common vision...
View ArticleAdapting ICT infrastructures to cope with climate change
We are only now beginning to understand how climate change is impacting our world. It is changing the lives of every one of us, and research suggests that these impacts are likely to accelerate in the...
View ArticleCybersecurity: Capacity Building and Emergency Response
The Internet is a critical global resource and possibly the greatest virtual environment ever created. Technological advances have connected people, communities and businesses around the world. The...
View ArticleA call to action to build a fully accessible society
The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, one of the committees in the UN human rights treaty bodies system, adopted at its meeting held in April 2014 its General Comment No 2 on the...
View Article#WorldEnvironmentDay: ICTs combatting climate change and saving lives in...
Today the world celebrates World Environment Day. As we commemorate the World Environment Day, the international community is finalizing preparations for the upcoming World Summit on the Information...
View ArticleTen-Year Anniversary of the WSIS Stocktaking Process: Sharing Best Practices
The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), which took place in Geneva in 2003 and in Tunis in 2005, determined the key principles to harness the potential of ICTs and to build a...
View ArticleGreen cables for climate monitoring and disaster warning
Continents are connected by information superhighways of fibre-optic submarine cables that span our oceans to provide the backbone of the global telecommunications system. The first submarine...
View ArticleA global information society: Are we there yet?
The concept of a global information society is one of the most discussed and misunderstood “Big Ideas” of our time. While we’ve made gigantic strides toward connecting the world through information and...
View ArticleEquipping our Children with Knowledge for the Digital Age
Even more than the advent of the automobile, the Internet is hurtling us forward and transforming every part of our lives. From a computer that once took up an entire room to a wearable implanted chip,...
View ArticleMobile Money: Getting Banking Services to the Poor
The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has recently taken on a new and challenging task: to promote digital financial inclusion through the adoption of technical standards. The UN Agency for...
View ArticleKartik’s Story: Fighting for ICTs to be Accessible to All
As a blind student from India, I have had several experiences where a lack of accessibility has prevented me from having the same opportunities as others. People with visual impairments have been...
View ArticleContinued Evolution of the Internet Requires Open and Inclusive Collaboration
The exponential growth of the Internet, one of the greatest engineering and technical feats ever achieved, was made possible by a level of collaboration and cooperation which has few parallels in the...
View ArticleBroadband: 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 ArticleAccessible Americas: Information and Communications for ALL
Accessible Americas: Information and Communication for ALL is a landmark event aimed at identifying accessibility implementation practices for stakeholders in the Americas Region. Held in Sao Paolo...
View ArticleAccessibility for Persons with Disabilities – an opportunity for Telecoms...
The numbers and the business case for providing information and communication technology (ICT) accessibility to people with disabilities are compelling. With a billion people in the world (nearly 1 in...
View ArticleTechnology, ICTs & the future of work
UNDP has just released its annual Human Development Report (HDR), entitled “Work for Human Development”, on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the first edition. This year’s Human Development Report...
View ArticleWill Facebook’s OpenCellular boost remote Internet access?
Facebook’s recently introduced OpenCellular project hopes to deliver wireless Internet access to the 10 per cent of the world’s population that lives in the most remote places – outside the range of...
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