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17 September 2024
The Inspiring Journey of James Johnson and Brain-Machine Interfaces at the AI for Good Global Summit
The AI for Good Global Summit recently featured a riveting session moderated by Taryn Southern, a storyteller and strategist known for her unique perspective on the intersection of technology and narrative.
27 August 2024
During the AI for Good Global Summit, Unbabel’s co-founder and Chief Executive, Vasco Pedro, showcased groundbreaking advancements aimed at reconnecting
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patients with their loved ones.
27 March 2024
In the global discussions on AI and digital health, the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health Dr. Tlaleng Mofokeng released the report on Digital Innovation, Technologies and the Right to Health.
26 March 2024
The International Telecommunication Union's AI for Good Innovation Factory is a competition that supports start-ups that are using AI to tackle sustainable development challenges.
22 January 2024
The 2024 World Economic Forum meeting in Davos event marked a significant milestone in the AI for Good movement, as Artificial Intelligence (AI) was top of mind and top of the programme.
13 December 2023
In a dynamic convergence of minds at AI for Good, the 2023 tinyML Challenge Finale showed how collaborative innovation can produce concrete solutions to power-up positive change.
11 December 2023
In the challenging landscape of dementia care, anticipated to skyrocket to 55 million people worldwide, the demand for innovative and lifechanging solutions becomes increasingly urgent.
1 December 2023
Six months from now, innovators dedicated to artificial intelligence (AI) will reconnect with investors and humanitarians to consider how the latest technologies can work for the good of everyone on the planet.
27 September 2023
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has partnered with Zindi to develop solutions to important global challenges through a series of data science competitions hosted by AI for Good.
26 September 2023
At the International Telecommunication Union, the topic of “Dental Diagnostics and Digital Dentistry” (TG-Dental) is bringing together leaders in Artificial Intelligence (AI) in dental research to drive digital transformation in the field.
3 March 2023
Advancements in AI have the potential to revolutionize healthcare by improving our ability to generate evidence that promotes better health decisions and better care.
7 February 2023
The integration of AI in robotics has the potential to create machine learning agents capable of interacting with the environment to complete a range of tasks, bringing humans and technology closer together.
24 January 2023
Autonomous mobile clinics (AMCs) are self-driving vehicles equipped with medical diagnostic technologies, telemedicine capability and artificial intelligence (AI) doctors that can perform some of the tasks of health professionals, such as disease screening and basic diagnostics.
13 December 2022
The need to solve complex technical problems with joint action has long been a challenge for humans. As we enter an age where we can programme a large set or a group of robots to coordinate their actions for good, there opens up a world of possibilities for the future of robotics and humans.
25 November 2022
The latest ITU AI For Good Innovation Factory is supporting start-ups that are using artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics to solve sustainable development challenges.
19 October 2022
Since 1990, the area of primary forest worldwide has decreased by over 80 million hectares through deforestation, forest degradation, and wildfire – that’s according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
19 October 2022
Last week marked the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction. Held every October 13, the day raises awareness about world disasters and the importance of reducing exposure and minimizing risks.
14 July 2022
The new State of AI in Africa Report created by the AI Media Group from South Africa, offers an analytical insight into the growing Artificial Intelligence (AI) sector in Africa, a topic that has not been fully explored up until now.
22 June 2022
Mental health matters. According to the World Health Organization, (WHO) 1 in 8 people in the world live with some form of mental health disorder.
8 June 2022
World Oceans Day is a great opportunity to remind us about the important responsibility we have in protecting our ocean on a global scale.
7 June 2022
As robots move from pure imagination to rapid implementation in more and more facets of daily life, AI for Good is highlighting developments driving the future of robotic technologies.
27 May 2022
From imagining possible digital futures to building and designing solutions for today, the Generation Connect conference is ITU’s largest gathering of youth to spur digital innovation.
13 May 2022
From monitoring environmental changes and measuring waste, to predicting poverty and even helping health workers during the pandemic, it is incredible to know the variety of ways Artificial Intelligence (AI) is already reshaping our world.
25 February 2022
Artificial intelligence (AI) is advancing at an increasingly rapid pace. New technological applications and systems are currently being used to simulate, extend, and expand human intelligence.
26 January 2022
Even before the world began to grapple with COVID19, many turned to Artificial Intelligence (AI) to fast-track solutions for health-care challenges confronting patients, health workers, institutions and governments.
7 May 2021
US President Joe Biden recently announced a goal for 70 per cent of the adult US population to have received at least one COVID-19 vaccine shot by July 4.
19 February 2021
Can simple digital tools lead to healthier lives for children, adolescents, and mothers?
10 February 2021
Even before the world began to grapple with COVID-19, many turned to artificial intelligence to fast-track solutions for healthcare challenges confronting patients, health workers, institutions, and governments.
23 December 2020
The ITU Journal is inviting contributions to five upcoming special issues on Bio-NanoThings for healthcare, Internet of Everything, Terahertz communications, wireless communication systems beyond 5G, and AI and machine learning in networking.
12 November 2020
The City of Seoul is deploying humanoid robots to help senior citizens become comfortable with using smartphones, online messaging and other digital services.
30 September 2020
As the world races to control the spread of COVID-19 and find a vaccine, what role can artificial intelligence play?
7 September 2020
A new ad-hoc group within the ITU-WHO Focus Group on Artificial Intelligence for Health aims to establish best practices in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) at each lifecycle of a public health emergency. Participation is open to all interested parties.
13 May 2020
For decades, the number of hungry people was declining. This isn’t true anymore. The COVID-19 pandemic is having an unprecedented impact on food systems. But even before COVID-19 began to affect food systems and agricultural livelihoods, 135 million people were already facing acute food insecurity.
15 April 2020
Digital health technologies are critical tools in the ongoing fight against the global COVID-19 pandemic.
7 April 2020
Now more than ever, hospitals are under great stress, and the people bearing the brunt of this pandemic are the nurses and clinicians at the frontlines of patient care.
6 April 2020
Contact tracing is a key public health response to limit infectious disease outbreaks such as the global COVID-19 pandemic.
2 April 2020
The Republic of Korea has been successful so far in containing COVID-19 without shutting down its economy, even though schools, museums and gyms — places where large numbers of people might gather in an enclosed space — are closed.
25 February 2020
We are witnessing a global shift from traditional, reactive healthcare to proactive health and wellbeing/wellness fuelled by digital solutions.
3 February 2020
Dr Nick Sireau finally found a way to save his children from decades of disabling pain: weed killer. Dr Sireau’s two sons were born with Alkaptonuria, also known as Black Bone Disease, an ultra-rare genetic mutation which affects just 200 people worldwide.
2 October 2019
The ITU Focus Group on ‘AI for Health’ (FG-AI4H), created in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), has issued a Call for Proposals to identify compelling use cases of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in strengthening health services and overarching health systems.
27 August 2019
Trying to describe a pain you feel to your doctor can be a difficult task. But soon, you won’t have to: a computer avatar is expected to tell your doctor everything they need to know.
31 May 2019
Artificial Intelligence (AI) provides unprecedented opportunities to address ongoing challenges that stand in the way of providing quality healthcare for all.
31 May 2019
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are making a key contribution to innovation in health services and overarching health systems.
30 May 2019
Healthcare is a domain for which Artificial Intelligence (AI) is particularly useful. That’s why AI for Health is a core theme of the AI for Good Global Summit.
22 May 2019
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) underpin today’s digital economy.
11 January 2019
The global burden of mental illness, both in terms of human suffering and economic loss, is catastrophic and rapidly growing.
18 December 2018
Universal Health Coverage Day, commemorated last week, has highlighted the urgent need to provide affordable and high-quality healthcare for all.
23 November 2018
The ITU-WHO initiative working towards the standardization of a framework for the performance benchmarking of ‘AI for Health’ algorithms has accepted eight new use cases addressing health issues spanning from breast cancer and Alzheimer’s disease to autism, vision loss, skin lesions, and venomous snakebites.
6 November 2018
Next week will host the second meeting of the Focus Group on ‘AI for Health’ (FG-AI4H), a new ITU-WHO initiative working towards the establishment of a framework and associated process for the performance benchmarking of ‘AI for Health’ algorithms.
15 October 2018
To mark the International Day of Rural Women ITU News looks at the work of a female entrepreneur using innovative technologies in Pakistan to make a difference in the lives of women and girls across the country.
21 August 2018
The potential for data-driven medicine and predictive analytics is clear. AI and machine learning are assisting healthcare providers with more informed clinical decision-making and enabling patients to take an active role in their own health, with access to real-time data via wearables and mobile apps.
20 August 2018
British Prime Minister Theresa May pledged in May that she would invest substantially in Artificial Intelligence (AI) to detect cancer in its early stage. This technology is expected to save 22,000 lives each year by 2033.
2 August 2018
The power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to solve medical problems in the areas of radiology, oncology, surgery, disease prevention, tumour detection, mental health, precision treatment and beyond is phenomenal.
13 June 2018
As an emerging technology on the front lines of health service delivery, the mobile phone holds potential that no other single tool can provide.
22 May 2018
“Health and [artificial intelligence] are natural companions, a very exciting convergence. The health sector is in many countries the largest economic sector or the fastest growing,” says Marcel Salathé of the Swiss technological institute, EPFL, and co-lead of the ‘Breakthrough team’ on AI and healthcare at the 2nd AI for Good Global Summit.
21 May 2018
At least half of the world’s population cannot obtain essential health services. But low-cost, easy-to-use technologies powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) promise to deliver quality and affordable health care to the people who need it most, no matter how hard to reach.
16 May 2018
One device will feature in the ‘tech for good’ projects of every humanitarian organization. The mobile phone – now in the hands of the vast majority of the world’s people – is fast becoming a powerful tool to source the data required to achieve population-scale improvements in quality of life.
16 May 2018
The terms ‘Big Data’ and ‘Artificial Intelligence’ are becoming commonplace across industries far beyond the tech sector.
6 April 2018
Currently half the world does not have access to adequate health services and the burden of poor health disproportionally affects those already living in poverty.
5 April 2018
Rima Arnaout wants to be clear: The AI she created to analyze heart scans, which easily outperformed human experts on its task, is not ready to replace cardiologists.
17 November 2017
So far this year, thirteen storms have ravaged the Caribbean, leaving millions of people without access to food, water, and shelter. When disasters strike, access to accurate information and a capacity to act quickly is critical for humanitarian organisations to ensure their life-saving assistance gets to where it is needed most.
