• Editorial: Sight lines to far horizons
  Dr Hamadoun I. Touré, ITU Secretary-General

• Technology Watch
  The optical world

• ITU at a glance

  • Register now for the Technical Symposium at ITU Telecom World 2011

  • Country code 211 assigned to South Sudan

  • ITU’s message to global climate change conference
    ITU launches a project on ICT and climate change in Ghana

  • New ITU App Challenge calls for IPTV creativity

  • ITU teams up with leading Asian standards organizations to bring new technologies to market more quickly and at lower cost

• Least developed countries
  A decade of growth, but challenges remain

• Maldives
  Moving up the development ladder

• Switching to digital television
  Japan turns off analogue television
  Contributed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Government of Japan

• Japan after the earthquake and tsunami
  Update on the restoration of telecommunication and broadcasting services

• Japan: what forces did the infrastructure have to face, and how did it stand up to the disaster?
  Lessons learned
  By Hideaki Kimura, NTT Access Network Service Systems Laboratories

• Geneva Dialogue on m-health
  Using mobile technology to advance public health in the developing world

• Climbing Mont Blanc

• Meeting with the Secretary-General
  Official visits to ITU

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