ITU
Below are all our blog posts with the tag "ITU"

Joint Statement on Data Protection and Privacy in the COVID-19 Response
A Joint Statement on Data Protection and Privacy in the COVID-19 response was issued today after endorsement by UN System Organizations.

COVID-19 pandemic: countries urged to take stronger action to stop spread of harmful information
Joint release by WHO, UN, UNICEF, UNDP, UNESCO, UNAIDS, ITU, UN Global Pulse, and IFRC

Building capacity to generate statistics from mobile phone records to support COVID-19 response
A few weeks ago, UN Global Pulse organized a series of webinars meant to assist National Statistics Bureaus in Africa with using mobile phone data to respond to, and to

UN entities partner to strengthen work to counter the COVID-19 infodemic
People worldwide will be better able to spot the difference between information and misinformation about COVID-19, as a result of a new co-operation within the UN system.

Need for greater cooperation between practitioners and the AI community
Solidarity should be a core principle guiding the development of innovative and ethical AI applications to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the newly published article co-authored by World Health

At the world’s largest ML conference, UN Global Pulse co-hosts AI for Social Good workshop
This week, we’re attending the Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) conference in Vancouver, one of the premier machine learning gatherings in the world, with around 13,000 people joining this year.

Data Privacy Day Roundup
The international data privacy and data protection landscape has been evolving over the past several years. From the United Nations Resolutions on Privacy in Digital Age, to the new mandate

Improving Data Privacy and Data Security in ICT4D: Event Recap
On Friday May 8th, Global Pulse hosted a workshop on data privacy and security in technology-enabled development projects and programmes, as part of a series of events about the Nine

Measuring the Information Society and Big Data
Government officials and ICT experts came together to discuss the future of ICT measurement and data analysis at the 12th World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Symposium (WTIS), held in Tbilisi, Georgia, 24