Interview at the World Telecommunication Development Conference (WTDC), Kigali 2022 with H.E John Omo, Secretary-General, African Telecommunications Union (ATU)

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This third episode tackles one of the most growing concerns of youth today - the future of work and employment. Featuring Sinead Bovell [Generation Connect Visionaries Board Member], Shergaun Roserie [Generation Connect Americas Youth Envoy] and Valarie Waswa [Generation Connect Africa Youth Envoy], together the speakers discuss their professional journeys and share advice for young people navigating the technological changes in the world of work.
Hosted by Arissandra Egorova

Interview for World Radio Day 2022 with Mario Maniewicz, Director, ITU Radiocommunication Bureau

On World Radio Day 2022, we catch up with Mario Maniewicz, Director of ITU's Radiocommunication Bureau and talk to him about "Radio and Trust” this year's theme, and ITU’s pivotal role in keeping radio going strong.

A quick round-up of tech-focused stories recently featured on the ITU News blog.

In this episode:

•Being back together in Barcelona at the 2021 Mobile World Congress;
•How ITU’s Digital Transformation Centres Initiative is ensuring that no one is left offline;
•Expanding financial inclusion through electronic payments;
•How digital finance may have softened the impact of COVID;
•Leading to achieve universal connectivity;
•Artificial intelligence expanding the scope of climate science;
•And… how satellites connect the unconnected by providing broadband connectivity worldwide.

Writer and presenter: Georgea Chronis -Marks
Editor-in-chief: Neil MacDonald
Producer and editor: Maximillian Jacobson - Gonzalez

A quick round-up of tech-focused stories recently featured on the ITU News blog. In this episode: •Being back together in Barcelona at the 2021 Mobile World Congress; •How ITU’s Digital Transformation Centres Initiative is ensuring that no one is left offline; •Expanding financial inclusion through electronic payments; •How digital finance may have softened the impact of COVID; •Leading to achieve universal connectivity; •Artificial intelligence expanding the scope of climate science; •And… how satellites connect the unconnected by providing broadband connectivity worldwide. Writer and presenter: Georgea Chronis -Marks Editor-in-chief: Neil MacDonald Producer and editor: Maximillian Jacobson - Gonzalez

A round-up of tech-focused stories recently featured on the ITU News blog.

In this episode
•How digital transformation can become sustainable;
•Technologies helping protect the world’s oceans;
•Namibia’s policy to tackle e-waste;
•Iceland’s drive for next-generation cybersecurity;
•Digital ID expanding financial access across Latin America;
•How regulations can help close the world’s digital divide.
•And…Mauritius – the small island nation that just deployed its first satellite into low-Earth orbit.

A quick round-up of tech-focused stories recently featured on the ITU News blog. In this episode •How digital transformation can become sustainable; •Technologies helping protect the world’s oceans; •Namibia’s policy to tackle e-waste; •Iceland’s drive for next-generation cybersecurity; •Digital ID expanding financial access across Latin America; •How regulations can help close the world’s digital divide. •And…Mauritius – the small island nation that just deployed its first satellite into low-Earth orbit.

Ageing is becoming a megatrend. Around the world birth rates are declining, while people are living longer, healthier lives. For the first time in human history, people over the age of 60 outnumber those under the age of five. A population predicted to reach 2 billion by the year 2050.

To help us prepare for this new reality, the World Health Organization and the United Nations have launched the Decade of Healthy Ageing. From 2021 to 2030, this decade will contain milestones related to the Sustainable Development Goals.

In this episode we are focusing on how technology can have a major part to play in ensuring that this population does not go underserved, but that will only happen if both technology creators and policy makers are aware of and act on this dramatic shift in the global demographic.

Featuring plenty of great content including extracts from speakers at major ITU events this year such as WSIS FORUM 2021 and facts and figures from ITU's brand new report: "Ageing in a digital world - from vulnerable to valuable".

This podcast is the twelfth episode of “Technology for Good”- an ITU podcast series that focuses on how technology is helping to shape the world around us. Listen now...and don't forget to like and subscribe to be the first to hear the next episode! Available on Soundcloud, Spotify, Apple Podcasts and more.

Presented and directed by: Maximillian Jacobson - Gonzalez
Produced and written by: Philippa Young
Edited by: Jo Barratt

For more information visit:
http://www..itu.int
and
https://www.itu.int/en/myitu/Publications/2021/05/17/12/55/Ageing-in-a-digital-world--from-vulnerable-to-valuable

Female Digital Entrepreneurship

A conversation between Doreen Bogdan - Martin, Director of the ITU Telecommunication Development Bureau, Tara Mulhare, a leader and coach for emerging businesses, and Rebekah Daniel, the head of a start-up in the fashion industry in Ethiopia, on how technology can enhance women’s economic and professional opportunities. Tara and Rebekah share advice to young women who want to use digital tools to expand their businesses, and describe the transformative role of digital skills from their first-hand experiences, including through ITU and the Enhanced Integrated Framework’s joint project on digital skills for women.

For more information please visit: http://www.itu.int

A round-up of tech-focused stories recently featured on the ITU News blog.

In this episode
· Women’s voices – and a campaign to amplify them all year long;
· How melon farmers bear fruit using digital technologies;
· Building trust— for everyone – in digital financial services;
· How a professional footballer uses AI to monitor his heart health;
· And... Space – not just the final frontier, but an 18th Sustainable Development Goal?