Kaleidoscope awards + Green Digital Action at COP29 + Global Innovation Forum highlights
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Kaleidoscope awards highlight AI research for humanity
The latest Kaleidoscope academic conference organized by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) featured awards for research papers focused on ensuring that tech works for good. Researchers from India’s Oxford College in Bengaluru received this year’s best paper award for their study proposing a smart drinking device for stroke survivors.
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Green Digital Action at COP29
The public-private initiative at the UN Climate Change Conference aims to foster wider partnerships, secure new commitments, and engage global leaders in advancing sustainable technologies and building climate resilience.
Standardization
Global ITU membership sets priorities for tech standards
The World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly (WTSA-24) has set out key priorities for standards and capacity development in areas from artificial intelligence (AI) and the metaverse to emergency communications and sustainable digital transformation. New conference resolutions aim to reinforce the organization's standards work to meet fast-evolving global needs.
Insight
The digital sector's environmental dilemma
Cosmas Luckyson Zavazava, Director of ITU’s Telecommunication Development Bureau, and Lourdes Montenegro, Director of Research and Digitisation at the World Benchmarking Alliance, reiterate the need to make the global tech industry sustainable.
In case you missed it
ITU Global Innovation Forum
Discussions in Malta between 28 and 30 October identified key ways to help close the world’s digital innovation gap.
Ongoing
6-7 November
Upcoming
11 November
11-17 November
12 November
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