Press Release: ITU Telecom World Young Innovators Competition launches 2nd Challenge in 2014 series
Innovative open source technology for emergency telecommunications Geneva, 30 June 2014 – ITU’s Young Innovators Competition 2014 has launched the second of its 2014 series of challenges, soliciting innovations using open source technologies for disaster management and offering winners the chance to…
ITU Blog: Mainstreaming Youth in Post-2015 Development Agenda
The 2014 edition of the ECOSOC Youth Forum recently concluded with a strong endorsement from Member States for the Global Youth Call, which captures the aspirations and combined input of thousands of young people to the UN’s Post 2015 Sustainable…
ITU Blog: Young Innovators Competition Issue a Series of Challenges for 2014
The Young Innovators Programme has just closed submissions on the first challenge of its 2014 Young Innovators Competition. The challenge, focused on Local Digital Content, attracted 205 ideas from 55 countries. An online community of over 4500 users helped to…
ITU Blog: ITU Interns Raise Their Voices – Creating a Better World Post-2015
We, the interns at the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), believe the world has much to gain from hearing our voices and listening to our ideas. Even more so, we believe global development policy will be enriched if policy leaders act…
ITU Blog: Innovative ICT Solutions for Youth Employment
The latest ITU report, Digital Opportunities: Innovative ICT Solutions for Youth Employment, carries an important message for youth, the private sector, academia and government policy makers seeking to address youth unemployment: youth need digital skills if they want to get…
International Girls in ICT Day celebrated around the globe
Annual day promotes career opportunities for young women to become ICT creators Geneva, 24 April 2014 – Every year on the fourth Thursday in April, ITU and the global technology community celebrate ‘Girls in ICT Day’, an awareness-raising initiative designed to…
