​23 May 2012, Istanbul, Turkey : I am especially pleased to be here with you for this Forum, because I spend much of my time advocating the benefits of broadband – both in my role as Secretary-General of ITU, the UN specialized agency for information and communication technologies, and also in my role as co-Vice-Chair of the Broadband Commission for Digital Development...

22 May 2012, Geneva, Switzerland : During the WSIS Forum last week, topics related to WSIS +10, and WSIS Beyond 2015, were covered in the high level opening segment, plenary sessions, a ministerial round table, action line facilitation meetings, thematic workshops and interactive sessions...

21 May 2012, Geneva, Switzerland : I am always delighted to visit UNCTAD and the CSTD, as we have enjoyed close working relationships between our organizations for a long time now. In this respect, I am particularly pleased to see Dr. Supachai Panitchpakdi again, a Commissioner of the Broadband Commission for Digital Development and fellow believer in the power of broadband to transform lives around the world and improve development outcomes for the better...

18 May 2012, Geneva, Switzerland : Welcome to the closing ceremony of the WSIS Forum 2012. I would like to thank all of you for your participation, your enthusiasm and your commitment to ensuring that the vision of the WSIS to build a people-centred, inclusive and development-oriented Information Society for all becomes a true reality...

18 May 2012, Geneva, Switzerland : This is the last plenary session of what has been a very busy week. We will look at the WSIS +10 process and offer an opportunity to draw conclusions based on the discussions and inputs made during the five days of the WSIS Forum 2012...

17 May 2012, Geneva, Switzerland: The global nature of cyberthreats poses challenges which can only be addressed through international cooperation by acknowledged experts and representatives from organizations to enhance the global community’s capabilities in dealing with those threats...
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​16 May 2012, Geneva, Switzerland: The theme of this World Telecommunication and Information Society Day – Women and Girls in ICT – will ensure that we pull together all our resources to provide the best possible opportunities for this significant half of the world’s population to benefit from ICTs...

​15 May 2012, Geneva, Switzerland: The ICT Discovery is the place where ITU highlights the history of information and communication technologies, ICTs, and demonstrates their achievements, and how they completely have transformed our lives...

15 May 2012, Geneva, Switzerland : ​It is a great pleasure to be with you here this afternoon for the High Level Dialogue on the Governance of Cyberspace and Cyberpeace.I am honoured to be part of this very important panel and to be able to address one of the most important topics of our time – which is the issue of cyber criminality and the illicit use of information and communication technologies, ICTs...

14 May 2012, Geneva, Switzerland : We are honoured by very high-level participation in the WSIS Forum – with more than 40 ministers, top-level participation from NGOs and International Organizations, C-level representatives from the private sector and civil society, and more than 1,200 delegates from over 160 countries...

14 May 2012, Geneva, Switzerland : It is a great pleasure to be with you here this morning for the High Level Segment of the 8th meeting of the United Nations Group on the Information Society, UNGIS.Since 2006, when UNGIS was endorsed by the Chief Executives Board, UNGIS has been serving as an inter-agency mechanism to coordinate substantive policy issues facing the UN system’s implementation of the Geneva Plan of Action and Tunis Agenda for the Information Society...

14 May 2012, Geneva, Switzerland : Once again, we are honoured by very high-level participation in this event – with more than 40 ministers, several C-level representatives from the private sector and civil society, and more than 1,200 senior WSIS stakeholders...

10 May 2012, Islamabad, Pakistan : It is a great pleasure to be with you here at the USF Company in Islamabad today – I am delighted to visit this very important institution to further broadband development in this beautiful country...

​8 May 2012, New Delhi, India : These 6th National Telecom Awards will identify and recognize outstanding contributions to the field of communications, ICTs, multimedia and infrastructure, offering well-deserved congratulations to companies which have shown outstanding research, development and innovations in the ICT sector...

01 May 2012, Ottawa, Canada : It is a great pleasure to be here with you in Ottawa this afternoon – amongst a group of people who, like me, share the conviction that wireless mobile communications have delivered, and will continue to deliver, profound and lasting social and economic benefits to our world...

​26 April 2012, New York, USA: In today’s world, there are far more jobs in ICTs, and career opportunities that rely on ICTs, than all the other jobs put together. There is a global skills shortage which amounts to the most extraordinary opportunity for girls and young women...

26 April 2012, New York, USA : What a tremendous pleasure and an honour it is to be here with you in New York this morning to celebrate ‘International Girls in ICT Day 2012’. And let me echo the moderator’s remarks just now by thanking Jasna Matić, Serbia’s State Secretary for the Digital Agenda, for getting the whole ‘Girls in ICT Day’ idea off the ground in the first place...

​25 April 2012, New York, United States  : In preparing for this meeting and reviewing the background documents, I was pleased to see that the prominent role of technologies was clearly recognized, as I truly believe that ICTs can dramatically improve the delivery of health services around the world, and in particular save the lives of both pregnant women and new-born babies...

23 April 2012, Geneva, Switzerland : ​E-Health, E-Education, E-Banking, Gender Empowerment and Youth Employment – these are the new opportunities for making our society fair and equitable...

19 April 2012, Doha, Qatar : ICT continues to transform the services sector. The ongoing diffusion of ICTs and a new wave of ICT applications enabled by broadband, mobile phones and sensor networks are spreading rapidly throughout the economy and creating more inclusive, innovative and high-impact services. This opens up windows for innovation and trade opportunities for both developed and developing countries...

16 April 2012 , Hong Kong, China : Cybersecurity and cybercrime affect every country, every business and each and every agency and programme of the United Nations. As we push forward the UN agenda for peace and safety, we must remember that cyberpeace and cybersecurity are part of this...

04 April 2012, Belgrade, Serbia : As leader of the International Telecommunication Union, I would like to share with you my passion to ‘Connect the World’ – and in particular to ensure that the digital divide is not allowed to become a broadband divide...

04 April 2012, Belgrade, Serbia : It is a great pleasure to be here with you in Belgrade this morning – and let me welcome this important initiative to further broadband development and the Digital Agenda here in Serbia...

02 April 2012, Ohrid, Macedonia : This has been the fifth full meeting of the Commission, and once again I find that after these amazing conversations my mind is brimming with all the good ideas I have heard, the inspirational thoughts, and the incredible energy that has come through our discussions...

02 April 2012, Ohrid, Macedonia : Let me offer you a very warm welcome to Ohrid – it is a real pleasure and a great honour to have so many Commissioners and their representatives here with us today, in this beautiful location...

30 March 2012, Istanbul, Turkey : In our modern, hyperconnected world it is easy to forget that just twenty or thirty years ago most people on the planet did not have access to even basic telecommunications.Today, we live in a world where we have six billion mobile cellular subscriptions, and where 2.4 billion people use the Internet...

12 March 2012, Geneva, Switzerland : We live in a new era of accountability – and we need to embrace this as a good thing.There are those who would fear scrutiny, who would prefer to remain hidden away, who would be uncomfortable with ‘the masses’ being aware of what is going on...

7 March 2012, Doha, Qatar : We have met – and indeed exceeded – our stated targets and goals. This is a result of your contributions. There are no big or small contributions. It is important to note that: Action, no matter how small it is can make a huge difference in people’s lives – a true case of small initiatives causing big ripples. In the post-Summit period, let us keep on reminding ourselves that for there to be meaningful change, I MUST play my part!...

6 March 2012 Doha, Qatar : The participants at this Summit represent a whole cross-section of society. This reinforces the undisputable, undeniable and inescapable truth that, a truly global information society can only emerge out of well-thought, multi-stakeholder-based approach paving way for facilitative cooperation, coordination and collaboration...

5 March 2012 Doha, Qatar : It is a great pleasure to be here with you in Doha this morning, and to share this opening session with two such high calibre speakers – Dr Hessa Al Jaber, who is not only Secretary-General of ICT Qatar, but who has also just joined the Broadband Commission for Digital Development; and Mr Rashid Al-Naimi, Chairman and CEO of MEEZA, and Vice President of Administration of the Qatar Foundation...

28 February 2012, Barcelona, Spain : Over the past twenty years or so we have seen an extraordinary transition from a world where most people did not have access to even basic telecommunications, to a world where we have six billion mobile cellular subscriptions, and where 2.3 billion people use the Internet...

27 February 2012, Barcelona, Spain : It is a great pleasure to be here with you in Barcelona this afternoon, and to have this opportunity to discuss with you the importance of broadband in social and economic development.The past twenty years has been an extraordinary time for the development of information and communication technologies, and with the ‘mobile miracle’ we have brought the benefits of ICTs within reach of virtually all the world’s people...

27 February 2012, Barcelona, Spain : We are honoured here today by the presence of the CEO of China Mobile, Mr Li Yue. On a personal note I am very pleased to meet him, and ITU looks forward to continuing close cooperation and further development with China Mobile and the other members of GTI over the coming years...

​17 February 2012, Geneva Switzerland: The conference has been totally responsive to the expectations of membership, and the outcomes are not just far-reaching, but have been achieved – in the renowned tradition of ITU – leaving all delegates and delegations equally happy with the results...

​03 February 2012, Geneva, Switzerland : Over the past fifty years, the IARC has successfully pursued the dream of a handful of ITU radio engineers to create the world’s first international amateur radio club – a club which served as a model amateur radio station operating to the very highest standards...

​02 February 2012, Beirut, Lebanon : It is a tremendously important conference, not just for ITU, but for the global ICT sector, and I am looking forward to the debates there which will shape the next 20 years of the most exciting business in the world – the business of ICTs...

31 January 2012, Geneva, Switzerland : Cybersecurity and cybercrime affect each and every agency and programme of the United Nations. As we push forward the UN agenda for peace and safety, we must remember that cyberpeace and cybersecurity are part of this...​

23 January 2012, Geneva, Switzerland : The honour of opening ITU’s busy calendar of major events in 2012 falls to the Radiocommunication Sector, and this year’s WRC promises to be the most important and well-attended edition ever – with over 3,000 registered participants, and more than 2,000 individual proposals...​

​20 January 2012, Geneva, Switzerland : It is a testament to ITU’s important place in the world that the discussion surrounding UTC and the leap second has been taking place, here, at RA-12, and it will be very interesting to see how this issue is eventually resolved at RA-15 and WRC-15 – because I am convinced, with the power of ITU’s membership, that this is indeed an issue we can indeed resolve, together...

16 January 2012, Geneva, Switzerland : This is the first Radiocommunication Assembly under the new Director of the Radiocommunication Bureau, Mr François Rancy, and I would like to commend him and his staff for their excellent preparatory work and organization of this event...
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10 January 2012, Geneva, Switzerland : TSAG has an important role in steering the work of the Standardization Sector towards this honourable goal.Under the sound guidance of our excellent chairman Bruce Gracie – and chairmen past – TSAG has helped to keep ITU-T well on-course with regard to the key objectives established for the Union...​