September
Shining a light on digital gaps
Digital collaboration took centre stage for Digital@UNGA, as ITU and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) highlighted global digital issues during the annual high-level session of the UN General Assembly. During the anchor event, we launched an exciting initiative with tech entrepreneur and musician will.i.am and Google to train young AI and robotics pioneers in Africa, aimed at boosting skills development and ensuring emerging technologies benefit future generations.
At ITU Headquarters, statisticians came together to learn, share, and help shape the statistics agenda for telecommunications and information and communication technologies (ICTs). Soon after, we released our new Connecting Humanity Action Blueprint, combining our cost estimates for physical infrastructure with requirements for affordability, skills, and policy development to close the global digital divide.
We also held live pitching sessions for our AI for Climate Action Innovation Factory, showcasing scalable artificial intelligence (AI) solutions aimed at addressing environmental challenges ahead of the finale at COP30 in November.
Over 750 initiatives
leveraging AI across the UN system
as compiled on the UN AI Resource Hub
(December 2025)
