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AI for Good Global Summit

 
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 Event Highlights

WSIS Forum 2012
WSIS Forum 2012
5/14/2012-5/18/2012Geneva, Switzerland
ITU, UNESCO, UNCTAD and UNDP welcome all WSIS Stakeholders to the WSIS Forum 2012 website. WSIS Forum 2012 will be held from 14th to 18th May 2012 and will provide structured opportunities to network, learn and to participate in multi-stakeholder discussions and consultations on WSIS implementation. This event builds upon the tradition of annual WSIS May meetings, and its new format is the result of open consultations with all WSIS Stakeholders.
 
World Telecommunication and Information Society Day
World Telecommunication and Information Society Day
5/17/2012-5/17/2012Geneva, Switzerland
The purpose of World Telecommunication and Information Society Day (WTISD) is to help raise awareness of the possibilities that the use of the Internet and other information and communication technologies (ICT) can bring to societies and economies, as well as of ways to bridge the digital divide. 17 May marks the anniversary of the signing of the first International Telegraph Convention and the creation of the International Telecommunication Union.
ITU Telecom World 2012
ITU Telecom World 2012
6/20/2012-6/22/2012Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
ITU Telecom events provide a unique global forum convening stakeholders from across the ICT ecosystem to engage in conferences, discussions, workshops, networking and showfloor events in a collective drive to find meaningful ICT solutions to pressing global challenges. Building on the successful format pioneered at World 2011which focussed onknowledge sharing and networking, ITU Telecom World 2012 will be an event where the bywords are knowledge and action.
 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (RIO + 20)
2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (RIO + 20)
6/20/2012-6/22/2012Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) will take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in exactly 100 days. This global event will mark the 20 year anniversary of the 1992 Earth Summit, the event that raised sustainability to the top of the global agenda, and which set up several of the most relevant international agreements to combat some of the most pressing environmental challenges, such as climate change, desertification and the loss of biodiversity. 

 

 

 

​An organization based on public-private partnership since its inception, ITU currently has a membership of 192 countries and over 700 private-sector entities and academic institutions.

 

 

​​An organization based on public-private partnership since its inception, ITU currently has a membership of 192 countries and over 700 private-sector entities and academic institutions.