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- 28 Sept 2010
ITU Secretary-General Tasks World Leaders on Broadband Access
Dr Hamadoun Touré, ITU Secretary-General has challenged global leaders to ensure that more than half of all the world’s people have access to broadband networks by 2015, and make access to high-speed…
- 4 Feb 2013
ITU Recognizes Contributions to Information Society
Hamadoun I. Touré, secretary-general, International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has presented Certificates of Recognition to the Administrations of Kuwait, Oman, Poland, Tanzania, Mexico and United…
- 29 Feb 2016
Ericsson Reaffirms Commitment To Africa's Smart Cities Drive
During Mobile World Congress 2016, Ericsson hosted a discussion on the impact of smart cities for a connected Africa with a distinguished panel of leading players in the information and…
- 31 Aug 2012
ITU Telecom World 2012 Attracts Global ICT Leaders
ITU Telecom World 2012 Attracts Global ICT Leaders ITU Telecom World 2012 is bringing together a uniquely inclusive list of international speakers for five days of constructive dialogue and debate…
- 15 Jul 2013
ICANN’s Meeting Kicks Off with Signing of New Registrar, Registry Agreements
The first group of Internet Registries and Registrars has signed new agreements with ICANN, bringing new generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs) into the home stretch of going live online. “This is a huge…
- 12 May 2016
Ericsson Joins SMART Africa Alliance's Digital Africa Drive
The SMART Africa Secretariat and Ericsson have entered an Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) partnership to meet the goal of developing a more connected and fully functioning…
- 16 Jul 2013
ITU Readies New 1Gbit/s Broadband Standard
G.fast, a new ITU broadband standard that promises up to 1 Gbit/s over existing copper telephone wires is one step closer following a meeting of ITU-T Study Group 15 this week. G.fast is designed to…
- 20 Jul 2013
ITU Readies New 1Gbit/s Broadband Standard
G.fast, a new ITU broadband standard, that promises up to 1 Gbit/s over existing copper telephone wires, is one step closer following a meeting of ITU-T Study Group 15 this week. G.fast is designed…
- 18 Jul 2016
Huawei Joins Initiative to Drive Africa's Digital Transformation
Huawei announced on Monday that it has joined the Smart Africa Alliance as Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) advisor and Platinum member at the Smart Africa Board Meeting. The…
- 21 Dec 2012
ITU, Telefónica Dangle Prize Green ICT Challenge
International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and Telefónica have launched the 3rd Green ICT Application Challenge which promises a prize of $5,000 to the application that best helps to…
- 27 Jul 2020
Ojobo, Former NCC Spokesman, Others Make 2020 List of 100 Most Reputable Africans
Reputation Poll International, a leading global reputation-management firm, has released the 2020 list of 100 Most Reputable Africans. The list features 47 women and 53 men from diverse sectors…
- 2 Oct 2013
Ericsson, Broadband Commission Report Highlights Broadband Impact on People
The Broadband Commission for Digital Development, in collaboration with Ericsson has issued a report titled: “Transformational solutions for 2015 and Beyond.” The report looks at several aspects of…
- 4 Nov 2013
Hackers Shift to SIM Cloning
United Nations has discovered significant vulnerabilities in mobile phone technology that could potentially enable hackers to remotely attack at least half a billion SIM cards. A United Nations (UN)…
- 28 Oct 2014
ITU Estimates 200m Fewer Women Online Compared to Men
The International Telecommunication Union ((ITU) said it will not relent in seeking ways to address gender digital divide, as it estimates that some 200 million fewer women are online compared to…
- 8 Aug 2012
IT News Africa Tells Story of Africa's ICT Rise with African Innovator Magazine
IT News Africa, www.itnewsafrica.com has taken the wrapper off African Innovator Magazine, a quarterly magazine dedicated to the coverage of Information Communication Technology and its impact…
- 3 Nov 2014
ITU, GSMA, Internet Society Unite in Fight Against Ebola
International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the GSMA and the Internet Society (ISOC), announced that they are joining forces in the fight against Ebola. The three organizations will bring together…
- 28 Aug 2014
ITU Telecom Young Innovators Competition Seeks Solutions to Climate Change
ITU Telecom World Young Innovators Competition has launched a Challenge on Smart Cities and Climate Change in partnership with the World Health Organization (WHO), seeking innovative ideas on how…
- 2 Oct 2013
Ghana Hosts Regional Prep Meeting for ITU World Telecom Development Conference
The Regional Preparatory Meeting for Africa, ahead of ITU’s World Telecommunication Development Conference 2014, opened yesterday in Accra, Ghana, to access the ongoing implementation of the…
- 9 Dec 2013
WTIS Seeks Harmonized Data on Global ICT Access, Affordability
Delegates to the just concluded ITU’s World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Symposium (WTIS), have endorsed the need to strengthen and adapt the way data on information and communication…
- 22 Dec 2013
ITU Meeting on Green ICT Standards Tackles e-Waste, Energy Efficiency
A meeting of ITU’s expert group on green ICT has resulted in new standards including an environmentally friendly universal charger for laptops as well as other portable devices (ITU-T L.1002), and a…
- 22 Jul 2013
ITU Crowns Dame Jonathan Child Online Protection Champion
Dame Patience Jonathan, first lady of Nigeria was yesterday formally appointed Champion for Child Online Protection at a ceremony in Geneva that had a high powdered Nigerian delegation in attendance.…
- 1 Dec 2013
ITU Says Broadcasting is Key Communication Medium in Emergencies
A new ITU report has highlighted the importance of international cooperation needed to enhance the reach of broadcasting in emergency situations, such as in the Philippines, which was recently…
- 24 Nov 2013
ITU Partners Brace for Battle against Cyber Threats
ITU Telecom World 2013, held in Bangkok, Thailand has demonstrated the power and need to work together with partners to enhance cybersecurity capabilities in the online world. ITU’s partners ABI…
- 12 Nov 2013
ITU Partners Bupa on m-Health Initiative
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has signed a ground-breaking partnership agreement with international healthcare company Bupa, to collaborate on a global ‘m-Health’ initiative called…
- 13 Feb 2013
ITU Says Traditional Telco Biz out of Sync IP-based Communications
The move to IP-based communications is irreversible – and the timescales for business models, regulatory frameworks, development cycles and infrastructure investment in the Internet world and that of…
- 19 Dec 2013
e-Health Interoperability Gets New Standard
An important milestone for global e-health standardization has been achieved with final approval of a new standard that will better enable interoperability between e-health devices. The standard -…
- 7 Nov 2013
Intel Partners ITU Telecom to Explore e-Education
Intel Corporation, the global leader in silicon chip innovation, will join ITU Telecom World 2013 as a partner, co-hosting sessions on leveraging the power of information and communication…
- 24 Jan 2014
ITU Experts Explore ways Forward in Dynamic Spectrum Usage
Key industry players, regulators, operators, manufacturers and research institutions gathered in Geneva at an ITU Workshop on White Spaces and Cognitive Radio Systems (CRS). ‘White Spaces’…
- 27 Jan 2014
New Video Codec to ease Pressure on Global Networks
A new video coding standard building on the PrimeTime Emmy award winning ITU-T H.264 / MPEG-4 AVC was agreed by ITU members yesterday. The new codec will considerably ease the burden on global…
- 4 Oct 2013
UN Report Says Women are Most Promising Market for ICT
A new report released by the Broadband Commission Working Group on Broadband and Gender of the United Nations has revealed that a significant and pervasive tech gap in access to information and…