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News The UN is increasingly worried about the estimated four billion people worldwide with no access to computers or the internet. The taskforce will also help UN member states develop effective policy and regulatory frameworks for information technology.
[20 Nov 2001]
News As part of the efforts to bring internet services to developing countries, top CEOs have signed a charter to donate at least 20 per cent of their charity budgets to the UN's Forum Task Force. There is still a wide digital divide between developed...
[18 Jun 2002]
News The UN agency for information and communications issues is looking to the heavens to bridge the digital divide. When it comes to the global digital divide, the ITU hopes satellite comms will play a vital role in "connecting the unconnected" - and...
[28 Feb 2008]
News The summit brings together governments, businesses, the UN and the man in the street and aims to hammer out a general agreement on ICT strategy and then put a plan of action in place. The anti-Icann countries would prefer to see the internet in the...
[10 Dec 2003]
News Figueres, who promoted the use of IT to help boost his country's development, is to lead the UN Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Advisory Group, which includes technology experts from the public and private sectors.
[14 Nov 2000]
News A Commission of IT experts working for the United Nations has called on head of the UN Kofi Annan to create a $500m treasure chest to help Third World countries connect to the internet. The report expressed concern that the internet was widening...
[21 Jun 2000]
News Last year at a UN conference with secretary general Kofi Annan, Negroponte unveiled the "Green Machine" prototype, backed by the likes of AMD, Google, and Red Hat. But while his idea is certainly noble, will the $100 laptop bridge the digital...
[26 Jan 2006]
News Last week BT effectively drew the line when it announced another 500 trigger levels for local exchanges, taking the total number of un-hit triggers to almost 800. We believe that the Government urgently needs to close the divide.
[16 Jul 2003]
News Most recently, a large coalition of international human rights groups was forbidden by Tunisian authorities from meeting to discuss the UN summit's topics on their own, the organisation Human Rights Watch reported on Monday.
[15 Nov 2005]
News The United Nations Information Technology Service, a global consortium of volunteer corps coordinated by the UN Volunteers programme, is training people in developing countries in the uses and opportunities of information technology.
[06 Nov 2002]
News The UN's comms agency, the International Telecommunications Union, is touting the importance of satellite technology in bridging the world's communications divide - as it can offer high-capacity transmission capabilities over wide areas, and...
[06 Mar 2008]
News And of course the kind of politicking that goes on at somewhere such as the UN - for the ITU is a division of that body - means he will have enemies. Much of the debate was indeed still focused on narrowing the 'digital divide' between developed...
[22 Oct 2003]
News Roberts said: "At the UN World Summit [where the OLPC prototype was first displayed last year] there were so many exciting projects that didn't get any attention because all eyes were on the OLPC. If you would like to donate your businesses PCs you...
[21 Jun 2006]
News The UN estimates that TV and radio currently reaches three-quarters of the earth's population, while the internet only currently reaches 5 per cent. In the Millennium statement, Kofi Annan acknowledged that the internet and ecommerce may turn out...
[20 Nov 2000]
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