G20 Presidency:
India shows the way
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Doreen Bogdan-Martin, Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), gives her take on digital public infrastructure (DPI), security, and skilling as priority areas where leading economies can share valuable knowledge and experience globally.
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Help put the 2030 Agenda back on track
Join ITU, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and partners from the UN system and beyond, supported by knowledge partner Boston Consulting Group (BCG), to uncover how data and digital technologies can catalyse action towards every UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) and propose an agenda for action. The SDG Digital event will take place on 17 September at United Nations Headquarters, ahead of the UN General Assembly.
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Digital technologies are crucial to build resilient infrastructure, promote sustainable industrialization and foster innovation for everyone worldwide, in line with SDG 9.
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Updating the world’s reference time scale
Work in the ITU Radiocommunication Sector (ITU‑R) provides a technical and regulatory basis for uninterrupted timing signals in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), say experts from Germany’s national metrology institute PTB and network regulator Bundesnetzagentur (BNetzA).
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The need for astronomical conformity
Timekeeping systems symbolically, if not literally, continue linking human lives with cosmic cycles and the solar day, reflects the Vice Director of the Vatican Observatory in Arizona (US).
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The terrestrial radio future
ITU‑R Study Group 5 is looking at mid-band spectrum use, frequencies for unlicensed mobile applications, and other terrestrial services and applications.
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