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News The United Nations (UN) has identified IT as a key way for developing countries to tackle poverty. In its latest survey on Asia and Pacific regions, the UN claims: "Applications of ICT (information & communications technology) can provide a... [09 Apr 1999]
Bush agrees web control pact with UN
News China, Cuba, South Africa and other nations have argued the US and other wealthier nations must share power - complaints that will now be taken to the new UN forum. The European Union, for instance, implicitly backed the creation of a stronger UN... [16 Nov 2005]
Technology offers Asia a lifeline out of recession
News The United Nations (UN) will meet in Bangkok today to debate how technology can help pull Asian countries out of economic recession. Three IT experts based in the region will tell the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific... [27 Apr 1999]
US can't dominate domain names, says UN
News UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has long pressed industry, government and private interest groups to ensure that people in poor nations have greater access to the internet. But the UN group couldn't decide what should be done about it. [18 Jul 2005]
The silicon.com Weekly Round-Up: 04.04.03
Comment He's concerned about its mobile phone infrastructure (as you would be.which is practically non-existent at the moment due to UN sanctions. It's commonly referred to as Global System for Mobile Communications these days, which is fair enough given... [04 Apr 2003]
UK flounders near bottom of ebusiness leaders list
News The UN study lists countries according to levels of technological prowess and achievement. The UN report judges 72 countries across the world on criteria including the percentage of citizens online and the percentage of the workforce with high... [10 Jul 2001]
Who's deciding the future of the internet?
News The UN recently announced that its members had agreed that the internet was a global 'facility' whose management should be 'multilateral, transparent and democratic'. To this end, the UN has set up the Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG) to... [27 Sep 2004]
Special Report: Kofi Annan's IT challenge
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]
US web stranglehold challenged
News Speaking at the opening of a four-day UN summit in Athens Yoshio Utsumi criticised the current rules for overseeing domain names and internet addresses, stressing that poorer nations are dissatisfied and are hoping that this week's meeting will... [30 Oct 2006]
Lies, damn lies, and broadband statistics
Comment They certainly show this UN unit has done the metrics but, after all that, is Portugal (at 19) really more advanced in terms of mobile and internet convergence than Japan (20)? But then this is what the ITU would like nations' business leaders and... [17 Sep 2002]
UN appoints head for developing world technology push
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]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Animated statistics
Comment For decades the statisticians had failed to come up with anything meaningful in terms of illuminating the depth and trends hidden in UN databases. About five years ago I came across a group of very frustrated social scientists and health... [12 Oct 2007]
RFID tags to "revolutionise" UN relief ops?
News When UN workers descend on distressed locales, they often encounter logjams at airport tarmacs and confusion over what exactly is in this or that box, said David Nabarro, who's chiefly in charge of co-ordinating responses to bird and human... [11 Oct 2007]
Global supply chains face efficiency crunch
News With EDI there are standards such as Accredited Standards Committee (ASC) X12 and the United Nations (UN) Edifact, with each moving towards using eXtensible Markup Language (XML), leading to ebXML and xCBL. [09 Sep 2005]
US moves to keep control of net names
News Officials on both sides are set to meet about the issue next month at a UN-sponsored summit in Tunisia. The European Union and other nations are demanding that the US share responsibility for the domain name system, including decisions over adding... [10 Oct 2005]
