The UN Broadband Commission was established in 2010 as a top-level advocacy body to promote broadband as an accelerator of global development. More than 50 members representing a range of sectors including the global technology industry, government ministers, education and healthcare are coming together twice a year at the Annual Spring and Fall meetings to discuss how to advance efforts to connect the world's nearly four billion “other half".This year, over 60 participants from United Nations agencies, governments and the broadband industry, came together in New York City at the annual fall meeting of the United Nations Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development, in parallel to the 73rd Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations.