ITU IEC Tackle Content Rights
International Telecommunication Union (ITU) have announced the joint effort to align the IEC 62698 standard for rights information interoperability (RII) with the ITU-T H.751 recommendation addressing the same issue. Content...Read more...
ICT Is 'Weakest Link' in the Electrical Grid, Exposing Utilities to Cyber Attacks
The recent use of information and communications technologies (ICTs) within the electrical grid has created system vulnerabilities to hacking and cyber-attacks, according to a report just released by London-based ABI Research....Read more...
Nigeria: Minister V. Gwandu - Nigeria Loses Itu Rag Chairman's Position to Kenya
Leadership]Nigeria yesterday lost its position at one of the prominent bodies in the United Nations (UN), the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) RAG, as Mr Daniel Obam of Kenya was elected and upgraded from his...Read more...
The ITU’s Quest for Relevance
The United Nations International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has received a lot of attention over the hotly contested debate regarding Internet governance. During the World Conference on International Telecommunications...Read more...
European Commission backs ITU eco-impact methodologies
The ITU-T L.1410 and L.1420 Recommendations to assess the environmental impacts of ICTs are among 10 international methodologies to have been pilot-tested in Europe’s bid to establish and converge around a common international...Read more...
Multimedia students urged to shape industry
Africa digital media students have been urged to study hard so as to acquire skills that will help them transform the country’s digital media industry. Minister of Youth and ICT, Jean Philbert Nsengimana officiating at the...Read more...
Legal multimedia content access simplified for consumers
Cooperation between the IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission), the world's leading standards body in electrotechnology, and ITU (the International Telecommunication Union) has produced a new metadata standard to...Read more...
Reward and Recognition for Young Innovators ITU
International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is set to reward and encourage youth innovation through organizing a global competition for young innovators with technical ideas about creating a social enterprise. Jidaw has been...Read more...
Falana tackles FG over attempt to sack Gwandu from ITU
Lagos lawyer and rights activist, Femi Falana, SAN, has written to Minister of Communications Technology Mrs Omobola Johnson to withdraw a letter sent to the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), asking the agency not...Read more...
ZigBee Alliance and TTC, Japan Sign MoU to Adopt ZigBee IP Specification as a TTC Standard
PRNewswire/ -- The ZigBee® Alliance, a global ecosystem of companies creating wireless solutions for use in energy management, commercial and consumer applications, and Telecommunications Technology Committee (TTC), a...Read more...
India’s mobile towers to be part of international radiation study
The writer has posted comments on this article MUMBAI: Concerns about cell tower radiations in India will be part of an international research aimed at establishing whether such radiation has any ill-effect on human health ....Read more...
Ghana Marks World Telecoms Day
Ghana yesterday marked World telecommunications and Information Society Day with a flag-raising ceremony at the forecourt of the Accra International Conference Centre. The day which falls on May 17 every year is celebrated to...Read more...
Bosch CEO Denner Receives Award From International Telecommunication Union
STUTTGART/GENEVA – Dr. Volkmar Denner, chairman of the Bosch board of management, has been presented with the 2013 World Telecommunication and Information Society Award by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). This...Read more...
Gig reason to celebrate World Telecommunication day
By Patrick Nsengiyumva newsdesk@greatlakesvoice.com May 17th is World Telecommunication Day. It was first celebrated in 1969 to commemorate the International Telecommunication Union in 1865. Since then, the day has been...Read more...
TRA celebrates World Telecommunication and Information Society Day
TRA organized an awareness workshop titled "usage of ICTs while driving: Safety or disaster on the road" In the presence of Abu Dhabi, Dubai police forces and RTA. The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) celebrated...Read more...
Myanmar has regions lowest internet penetration rate
Internet penetration rate in terms of population in Myanmar is the lowest in the region, according to the reports of International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and world top consultation firm Roland Berger. Only 7 per cent of...Read more...
Cyber Wars: Iran Proposal for Moral Internet
CyberWars: Iran’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Minister Mohammad Hassan Nami announced that the countries present in the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) conference welcomed Tehran’s proposal for...Read more...
Parkview presents at world summit
Lori Hunt, Parkview's Trauma Prevention Coordinator, talks to people at a world summit in Geneva, Switzerland about how to bring back 'Don't Text and Drive' campaigns to their own countries. The Allen County Coroner’s Office...Read more...
WORLD TELECOMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION DAY: MAY 17, 2013
WORLD TELECOMMUNICATION DAY Quick Facts World Information Society Day is celebrated each year to raise awareness of how information and communication can be beneficial for societies and economies. Local names Name Language...Read more...
ITU Award Goes to President Ueli Maurer of Switzerland, Volkmar Denner of Bosch and Jean Todt,...
GENEVA, May 17 -- International Telecommunication Union issued the following news release: The 2013 World Telecommunication and Information Society Award was presented to three eminent personalities: Mr Ueli Maurer, President...Read more...
UN awards for promoting ICTs to improve road safety
The President of Switzerland, the chairman of a German engineering company and the President of the International Automobile Federation Friday were honoured with a United Nations award recognizing their use of information and...Read more...
Rwanda Rwanda Wins International ICT Award
Rwanda has won an award at the WSIS Project Prizes 2013 organized by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) where the Africa Digital Media Academy was voted as the best project in media category. The WSIS Project...Read more...
Harness power of ICTs to improve road safety: UN
United Nations officials on Thursday called for harnessing the power of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to improve road safety and thereby save over a millions lives each year. "Let us make the best of...Read more...
2nd Luxembourg Workshop on Satellite Communication
The University of Luxembourg in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law and the SES Chair in Satellite Communication and Media Law present the 2nd...Read more...
Minister: Azerbaijan, ITU prepare new convention on information security
Azerbaijan together with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is working on the preparation of a new convention on information security, Azerbaijani Communications and IT Minister Ali Abbasov said at the First...Read more...
President Zardari’s message on 148th anniversary of establishment of World Telecommunication Union
Islamabad, May 17, 2013 (PPI-OT): On the occasion of 148th anniversary of the establishment of International Telecommunication Union (ITU) today I would like to congratulate the ITU for the steady progress it has made for...Read more...
Nigeria: Minister Pursues NCC Ex-Commissioner to World Stage
Leadership]The Minister of Communications Technology, Mrs Omobola Johnson, has written a letter to one of the prominent bodies in the United Nations (UN), the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), asking it to remove Dr...Read more...
Eurovision: Glitz, glam and politics
17 May 2013, 10:51 am - Source: Rhiannon Elston, SBS Political messages of any kind are officially banned from Eurovision, but that hasn't stopped them seeping into the famed song contest. Political messages of any kind are...Read more...
Road Safety In The Eyes Of Today’s ICT, By Kunle Bello
Former MTEL MD, Kunle Bello Like a recurring decimal and without recourse to the state or level of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) acquisition, deployment, application and development, any nation chooses to avail...Read more...
Creating standards for higher-speed networks of tomorrow
The networks of tomorrow will need higher speeds than networks of the past. That’s because new applications are increasing bandwidth needs in fiber optic networks. In addition, cloud computing leads to greater variability in...Read more...
