ITU Techshot

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 •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 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?