ITU year in review 2025

ITU year in review 2025

Connecting, safeguarding, empowering

As the digital landscape evolves, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) continues shaping the future for the good of everyone.

Our progress in 2025 stands as a testament to the collective ambition, resilience, and innovation that define global digital cooperation.

As ITU marked its 160th anniversary, we reflected on the principles that have guided us from the start.

Read our Secretary-General’s message

As we celebrated ITU’s 160^th anniversary, we renewed our commitment to connect, safeguard, and empower people everywhere.

ITU Elected officials at WTDC-25 — ITU’s leadership team (from left to right): Seizo Onoe, Director, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau; Mario Maniewicz, Director, Radiocommunication Bureau; Tomas Lamanauskas, Deputy Secretary-General; Doreen Bogdan-Martin, Secretary-General; and Cosmas Luckyson Zavazava, Director, Telecommunication Development Bureau

Check out ITU’s 2025 diary:

We opened the year with deep insights on digital infrastructure investment (January).

We boosted cooperation to safeguard submarine telecom cables (February),

We rallied mobile and satellite operators to connect everyone, everywhere (March).

We showed how digital tools are transforming rural life and encouraged girls and women to pursue technology careers (April).

Our 160th anniversary put the spotlight on evolving communication technologies and today’s digital acceleration (May).

We ramped up support to connect schools, explored virtual worlds, and shared transformative United Nations (UN) solutions (June).

Our AI for Good summit attracted innovators, investors, a papal envoy, and over 11,000 visitors, while WSIS+20 stakeholders explored the way forward for people-centred digital cooperation (July).

We brought regulators together to shape the frameworks for building future digital economies and societies (August).

We delivered statistical insights and brought the digital conversation to the UN General Assembly (September).

We broadened international cooperation to safeguard the orbital environment (October).

We highlighted digital solutions in the latest climate pledges, promoted artificial intelligence (AI) for humanity, and showed how digital development can build a better future for all (November).

We pledged with partners to advance safe AI standards and boost connectivity for refugees, while the UN General Assembly put new vigour into global digital cooperation (December).