In a small room in CERN’s Data Center, an international group of nine developers is taking a plunge back in time to the beginnings of the World Wide Web. Their aim is to enable the whole world to experience what the web looked like viewed within the very first browser developed by Tim Berners-Lee. It was at CERN that …
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The United States is pleased to co-sponsor this agenda item and contribute to the discussion of “The Societal Value of IP in the New Economy – IP and New Business.”
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The U.S. Mission is pleased to have cosponsored a November 7 discussion on Intellectual Property (IP) and Innovation at the World Trade Organization. A panel of four expert speakers looked at how IP incentivizes creativity in the arts, business and technology, unshackling human potential to address the world’s many challenges. The event featured four speakers: …
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The United States congratulates Doreen Bogdan-Martin for her election as Director of the International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU) Bureau of Telecommunication Development.
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Geneva, Switzerland July 10, 2018 Good afternoon! It’s great to be at GSR-18 and a part of this discussion on Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies. Thank you to Director Brahima Sanou and the ITU for facilitating this week’s discussions. I appreciate Director Sanou’s singular focus on bringing the benefits of technology to billions around the …
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The United States hosted a reception in honor of delegates to the 2018 ITU Council and to express support for two women making outstanding contributions to the work of the ITU, Doreen Bogdan Martin, the U.S. candidate for Director of the ITU Telecommunication Development Bureau, and Joanne Wilson, candidate for a second term on the …
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Remarks John J. Sullivan Deputy Secretary of State William J. Burns Auditorium Washington, DC October 12, 2017 DEPUTY SECRETARY SULLIVAN: Thank you, Alyson, for that kind introduction. And thanks to you and to OES Acting Assistant Secretary Judith Garber for the good work you and your teams have done in putting together this event. First, I …
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John Kerry: “USAID has committed $100 million to this effort to be able to help people to make their own choices and to be educated about what those choices are.”
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We need transformational tools, and Geneva Gender Champions is such a tool, uniting the leadership here in Geneva to demand and to drive real change. Some of this change is already visible – such as the increasing number of women on panels and delegations – while other times, this change is more difficult to see, …
Read More» There is nothing more fundamental than what unites us here today, the desire and commitment to combine our strengths and expertise to solve the defining challenges and questions of our time.
Read More» Geneva is the operational hub of the UN system – so our goal is to unite the key decision-makers and experts in Geneva into a powerful force for collective action. The issues we’re prioritizing, issues of gender equality, of women and girls’ empowerment, these issues transcend disciplines and organizations and merit a comprehensive and coordinated …
Read More» The United States supports these efforts and encourages all ITU members to do more to implement an effective and coordinated response to eliminate this devastating disease.
Read More» The summit aims to capture the global voice of youth and transmit their shared concerns and proposals to world leaders, through a crowd-sourced, multimedia statement to the United Nations General Assembly session in September 2013.
Read More» Ambassador Terry Kramer, the U.S. Head of Delegation for the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT), briefs press on the Development and Progress of the WCIT, currently being held in Dubai until December 14, 2012.
Read More» On November 26, co-hosts Ambassador King and Kenyan Ambassador Tom Mboya Okeyo welcomed ITU’s Phillipa Biggs, who briefed a gathering of Geneva ambassadors on the Broad Band Commission’s recently published
Read More» Our priority objective for this WRC-12 is to set the framework for an important debate that will take place between now and the WRC-2015 about how the world will allocate more spectrum for mobile broadband services.
Read More» The United States of America supports the proposed revision to the definition of Universal Coordinated Time (UTC), suppressing the use of leap seconds as a part of this time scale.
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