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WSIS Forum 2021: ICTs foster inclusive, resilient, sustainable societies and economies

Post author:Diran Taofeek Folami
Post published:June 14, 2021
Post category:Innovation
Post last modified:June 14, 2021

By Malcolm Johnson, ITU Deputy Secretary-General The COVID-19 pandemic has illustrated two things like never before: firstly, the importance of digital technologies – where would we have been over the last year without mobile phones, radio and television broadcasting, or the Internet? – and secondly, our ever-deepening global interdependence. Indeed, no one, is safe until everyone is safe. Yet a […]

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Here’s how ICTs bring stability to an uncertain world

Post author:Diran Taofeek Folami
Post published:September 9, 2020
Post category:Innovation
Post last modified:September 9, 2020

By Malcolm Johnson, ITU Deputy Secretary-General *The following article has been adapted from my opening remarks at the GovInsider Live Festival of Innovation. We all yearn for stability in our lives. Even if it’s for the best, no one really likes the uncertainty change entails. For most of us, stability would mean going back to pre-COVID times when we could […]

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Technology for all means tapping into the ‘Silver Economy’

Post author:Diran Taofeek Folami
Post published:August 11, 2020
Post category:Innovation
Post last modified:August 11, 2020

By Michael Hodin, CEO of the Global Coalition on Aging *This article has been republished with permission of the author and the Global Coalition on Aging. The original article can be found here. Older people, globally, are consumers too. The megatrend of global aging — 2 billion of us over 60 by mid-century, more old than young, getting to the […]

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Why the new UN Disability Inclusion Strategy is an opportunity for ITU

Post author:Diran Taofeek Folami
Post published:July 27, 2020
Post category:Innovation
Post last modified:July 27, 2020

By Catalina Devandas-Aguilar, UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities *The following article is adapted from my opening remarks at the 2020 WSIS Forum session “ICTs and Accessibility: UN collaborative efforts towards SDGs, CRPD and UNDIS implementation in Digital Accessibility,” which took place virtually on 16 July 2020. People with disabilities represent more than 15 per cent […]

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How Montenegro is boosting digital innovation

Post author:Diran Taofeek Folami
Post published:July 13, 2020
Post category:Innovation
Post last modified:July 13, 2020

By ITU News ITU recently connected with H.E Dragica Sekulić, Minister of the Economy for Montegnegro, about her country’s efforts to boost its information and communication technology (ICT) innovation ecosystem. How dynamic is the ICT ecosystem of Montenegro? The continuous work of the Government in the previous period has created strong and sustainable preconditions for the accelerated development of the […]

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