Digital offers a ray of hope in tough global times

The world experienced growing humanitarian crises and conflicts in 2023, combined with economic uncertainties that have deepened divides and inequalities. Through it all, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has kept stepping up landmark initiatives for universal connectivity and sustainable digital transformation, notes ITU Secretary-General Doreen Bogdan-Martin.

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Ready for tomorrow

ITU’s year in review

Looking back over 2023, ITU has taken robust steps aimed at driving digital impact, connecting people and ideas, and ensuring organizational excellence.

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Key focus areas in 2023

Driving digital impact

ITU’s unique membership – encompassing the private sector and academia alongside 193 member states – brings together a wealth of industry and policy expertise.

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Connecting people and ideas

As the United Nations agency for digital technologies, ITU serves as a platform for leveraging tech and innovation to accelerate progress for all of humanity.

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Organizational excellence

ITU is transforming its operations, stepping up efficiency, innovation, and continual improvement, while engaging new partners and ensuring inclusiveness.

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On the horizon

In 2024…

The Summit of the Future offers a once-in-a-generation opportunity to address critical challenges, while ITU’s World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly (WTSA?24) will highlight technical collaboration to make digital technologies safer, more accessible, more affordable, and more sustainable.

Upcoming

10 January

• AI for Good webinar: Large-scale monitoring of nature with deep learning

12 January

• AI for Good webinar: Using artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics to address the UN Sustainable Development Goals and improve value alignment between artificial general intelligence (AGI) and humans

15 January

• AI for Good webinar (replay): Metaverse + AI: case studies shared for SDG 4 (Quality Education) in lower-income public schools

16 January

• AI for Good webinar: The disruptive economics of AI in healthcare

17 January

• AI for Good webinar: Explain it to me! On the use of explainable machine learning for the agricultural and environmental sciences

18 January

• AI for Good webinar: Open source (generative) AI for public services innovation

19 January

• AI for Good webinar: The role of AI in tackling climate change and its impacts: from science to early warning

22 January

• AI for Good webinar: Building a foundation for geospatial AI: defining a syllabus and body of knowledge