News: ITU, ADB and the World Bank
- In the digital era, corporate digital competitiveness is on the utmost agenda of firms and policymakers globally. Luring foreign direct investment (FDI) into the digital economy is a crucial tool.
- Financial intermediary loans can improve access to finance, enhance financial system stability, lead to private sector-driven and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty.
- Significant disparities persist in women’s participation in the labor market and access to financial resources in the Pacific. A comprehensive approach to improving data, expanding financial inclusion, and promoting gender equality in the workplace is needed.
- In the Pacific, governments and their partners must collaborate with utilities to ensure they can sustain their operations financially while delivering accessible, high-quality water services to everyone.
The latest issue of the ITU Journal on Future and Evolving Technologies explores innovations for networks to achieve high performance, energy efficiency, and security while serving a diverse range of devices. The new issue continues the ITU Journal’s coverage of the growing influence of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and automation on communications and networking. […]
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- Governments and the private sector in Asia and the Pacific need to take proactive steps to increase the number of women working in the transport and logistics sectors. By doing this, services for women and girls, and the public overall, will improve.
- The COVID-19 pandemic that began in late 2019 imposed unprecedented challenges that affected countries worldwide. As the virus was found to be lethal and highly contagious, governments focused on treating those infected, while aggressively preventing it from affecting others.
By Casey Torgusson, Global Program Manager for Digital Development, World Bank, and Cosmas Luckyson Zavazava, Director of the Telecommunication Development Bureau, ITU Artificial intelligence (AI) and other digital technologies have piqued global excitement with their promise to drive economic growth and opportunity, unlock scientific breakthroughs, and build better services. But as we race to close […]
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By Mario Maniewicz, Director, ITU Radiocommunication Bureau Earth observation satellites have become indispensable in the world’s battle against climate change. Satellite systems, aided by high-speed Internet access, enable near real-time monitoring of climate patterns, disasters, and environmental changes – vital data to predict and mitigate disasters. Along with enhancing our understanding of climate dynamics, this […]
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The upcoming OFC conference in San Diego, 24-28 March, will feature expert talks on the latest broadband standards from the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). In line with the conference’s focus on optical networking, ITU’s OFC presentations will focus on standards from ITU-T Study Group 15 – the standardization expert group on networks, technologies and infrastructures […]
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