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ITU International Symposium on the Digital Switchover

On 16 June 2006, a treaty agreement was signed at the conclusion of ITU’s Regional Radiocommunication Conference (RRC-06) in Geneva, heralding the development of ‘all-digital’ terrestrial broadcast services for sound and television.

The WSIS Forum 2015 as the world's largest annual gathering of ICT has been starting

The WSIS Forum 2015 represents the world’s largest annual gathering of the ‘ICT for development’ community.

Mind the Digital Gap - Regulatory incentives to achieve digital opportunities

The 15th Global Symposium for Regulators will take place in Libreville, Gabon, from 9 to 11 June 2015. It will be preceded by a series of pre-events on 8 June 2015.

Theme WTISD 2015: Drivers of innovation

The purpose of World Telecommunication and Information Society Day (WTISD) is to help raise awareness of the possibilities that the use of the Internet and other information and communication technologies (ICT) can bring to societies and economies, as well as of ways to bridge the digital divide.

Smart Cities Will Use 1.1 Billion Connected Things in 2015

Increasing urbanization is putting unprecedented pressure on city mayors to constantly balance the challenge of resource constraints against environmental sustainability concerns. Gartner estimates that 1.1 billion connected things will be used by smart cities in 2015, rising to 9.7 billion by 2020.

Broadband the key to bringing ‘education to all’, says UN Broadband Commission

Mobile phones, tablets and e-readers with broadband connectivity could prove the long-sought panacea in the global effort to bring quality, ubiquitous multidisciplinary educational opportunities to people everywhere, especially the world’s poorest or most isolated communities, according to the UN Broadband Commission for Digital Development, which held its 11th meeting at UNESCO headquarters in Paris today.