This year’s WSIS Forum entitled “Innovating Together: Enabling ICTs for Sustainable Development” was held in Geneva from 25 to 29 May. The event was co-organized by ITU, UNESCO, UNDP and UNCTAD. As ...

I thank you for joining us for this important special event. And give special thanks to our chair H.E. Mr. Oh Joon, Vice-President of ECOSOC; our Moderator Ambassador Karklins and my fellow panelists ...

This year marks an historic turning point for development policy. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) end their fifteen-year run as the centerpiece of global development activities, and ...

For a couple of years, Sustainable development goals (SDGs) have been the new buzzword in donor circles. It remains to be seen whether the MDG-offshoot can achieve the lofty mandate – 17 goals and 169 ...

ISLAMABAD: In February 2016, Pakistan’s parliament did what it had never done before. It became one of the world’s first parliaments to formally adopt United Nation’s (UN) Sustainable Development ...

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“Improved ICT infrastructure can be used to expand communications, speed up the delivery of services and provide access to crucial information particularly in remote communities,” it says. It also ...

The Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development today issued a statement urging policymakers, the private sector and other partners to make deployment of broadband infrastructure a top priority ...