In this week’s show, we’re covering the disastrous impact of COVID-19 in DPR Korea (widely known as North Korea) as told to the Human Rights Council; violence in South Sudan that’s the worst since the onset of the civil war in December 2013 – and, we’ll hear about war photographer Giles Clarke’s moving portrait campaign showing some of Yemen’s displaced millions, in partnership with OCHA, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. 

With Daniel Johnson, Solange Behoteguy-Cortes and Alpha Diallo from UN Geneva.

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Podcast - UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva – DPRK, COVID & war photographer Giles Clarke

In this episode we are focusing on ICT accessibility - specifically for persons with disabilities. People who identify as living with disability represent 15% of the world’s population, which is currently around 1 billion people. Within this population there exists a very wide array of disabilities encompassing physical mobility, autism and speech delays, persons who are deaf and hard of hearing, and persons with visual disability . Up to 70% of disabilities are invisible but they can still present a barrier to access and use the growing range of information technologies available. 

This episode explores innovations in the accessibility space from established companies like Google and Microsoft to the new softwares and entrepreneurial ventures developed by people living with disability who experienced and realised a need that was not being met, and did something about it.  With many extracts from the WSIS FORUM 2021 discussions.

This podcast is the eleventh episode of “Technology for Good”- an ITU podcast series that focuses on how technology is helping to shape the world around us. Listen now...and don't forget to like and subscribe to be the first to hear the next episode! Available on Soundcloud, Spotify, Apple Podcasts and more.

Presented and directed by: Maximillian Jacobson - Gonzalez
Produced and written by: Philippa Young
Edited by: Jo Barratt

Technology For Good #11 Accessibility for all

Interview with Isabelle Mauro, Director General, Global Satellite Operators Association (GSOA), at the Global Symposium for Regulators 2024 (GSR-24), Kampala, Uganda, 1-4 July 2024.

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GSR-24 INTERVIEWS: Isabelle Mauro, Director General, Global Satellite Operators Association (GSOA)

In this episode of ITU Tech Monthly, we explore the transformative Smart Villages and Smart Islands Initiative with Ashish Narayan, Program Coordinator at ITU’s Asia and Pacific Regional Office.

🌍 From remote islands in Vanuatu to rural villages in Pakistan, discover how communities are leapfrogging into the digital future through:

- Broadband connectivity and affordable digital services
- Community-driven innovation and digital skills training
- Real-world success stories in e-education, e-health, and mobile payments
- Multi-stakeholder collaboration for scalable, sustainable impact

💡 Learn how technology is being used to empower women, youth, and vulnerable populations—and why smart solutions must be locally driven and globally supported.

Find out more about the Smart Villages and Smart Islands Initiative:
https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/ICT-Applications/Pages/Initiatives/ASP/Smart-Islands/Smart-Islands-Initiative.aspx

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Technology can level the playing field for individuals and communities, marginalised by their gender, physical disability or rural location. Our exclusive technological expert interviewees share with us how connectivity and telecommunications are more important now than ever before.

This podcast is available on Soundcloud, Spotify, Apple Podcasts and more. It is the third episode of “Technology for Good”- an ITU series that focuses on how technology is helping to shape the world around us. Listen now...and don't forget to like and subscribe to hear the next episode in our brand new series!

Technology For Good #3 Digital Inclusion

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ITU is the leading United Nations agency for information and communication technologies (ICTs), driving innovation in ICTs together with 193 Member States and a membership of some 900 private sector entities and academic institutions. Established over 150 years ago in 1865, ITU is the intergovernmental body responsible for coordinating the shared global use of the radio spectrum, promoting international cooperation in assigning satellite orbits, improving communication infrastructure in the developing world, and establishing the worldwide standards that foster seamless interconnection of a vast range of communications systems. From broadband networks to cutting-edge wireless technologies, aeronautical and maritime navigation, radio astronomy, oceanographic and satellite-based earth monitoring as well as converging fixed-mobile phone, Internet and broadcasting technologies, ITU is committed to connecting the world.

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