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13 November 2024
As the impacts of climate change grow increasingly urgent, AI is emerging as a powerful tool in the global effort to combat environmental challenges.
12 October 2024
In the rapidly evolving world of telecommunications, where technology continuously pushes boundaries, India hosted a significant event that marked a stride towards innovation: the ITU WTSA-24 Hackathon.
31 May 2024
The AI for Good Global Summit, held annually under the auspices of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), stands as the premier platform for leveraging the potential of artificial intelligence to address some of the world's most pressing challenges.
25 January 2024
Open-source Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a key topic shaping public debate, and governments are keen to harness AI for public sector innovation.
25 November 2022
The field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been around since the 1950s, when Alan Turing first posed the revolutionary question, “Can machines think?” in his paper Computing Machinery and Intelligence.
15 December 2021
The top teams competing in the ITU AI/ML in 5G Grand Challenge Finale, a global competition to spur and award machine learning innovations in 5G communication networks, have just been announced.
10 November 2021
As a United Nations agency with a specialized focus on digital technologies, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) strives to align new and emerging tech with global sustainable development goals.
19 July 2021
The ITU Challenge on AI and Machine Learning in 5G welcomes you to join students and professionals from around the world in solving problems at top of mind for innovators working to ensure that communication networks capitalize on advances in AI and Machine Learning (ML).
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.
23 December 2020
“Free, fast, for all, the Journal aims to promote accessibility of research to academics and industry researchers across the world,” says the ITU Journal’s Editor-in-Chief, Ian F. Akyildiz.
18 December 2020
Ved P. Kafle and Abu Hena Al Muktadir of Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) received the recognition of first prize at ITU Kaleidoscope 2020 for their paper proposing the use of machine learning techniques to support edge-cloud resources in serving Internet of Things (IoT) applications in need of low latency.9
18 December 2020
It all started with an idea: how might ITU create a community that can produce tangible impact in the field of AI and 5G for the communication industry?
5 August 2020
Hundreds of competitors from over 50 countries have entered the ITU Challenge on AI and Machine Learning in 5G to showcase their talent, test their concepts on real data and real-world problems, and compete for global recognition.
4 May 2020
We have never before modified our Tech, Media and Telecom (TMT) Predictions in the middle of the year: that would have felt like changing a wrong answer on an exam.
14 April 2020
The ICT industry is accelerating its investigations into AI and Machine Learning with a view to optimizing network operations, increasing energy efficiency and curtailing the costs of operating a network.
10 September 2019
Industry collaboration will be key to security in the 5G era. The sharing of network infrastructure could help operators to deliver new services faster, at lower cost. 5G continues to highlight the necessity of investment in all-fibre networks. Machine Learning is certain to form part of our 5G future.
20 August 2019
A new ITU standard has established a basis for the cost-effective integration of Machine Learning into 5G and future networks.
8 February 2019
“ML techniques, so far, are more or less related to prediction, classification and decision-making in the networking area,” says Qiang Cheng of the Artificial Intelligence Industry Association of the China Academy of ICT.
7 October 2018
The following was adapted from ITU Secretary-General Houlin Zhao’s opening remarks at the Global Symposium for Regulators 2018 in Geneva on 10 July 2018.
11 September 2018
The world of mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) is facing another wave of change as evolving competition and demand along with technology advancements brings new opportunities and challenges for MVNOs and their mobile network operator (MNO) hosts.
17 July 2018
How can information and communication technology (ICT) regulators respond to an increasingly dynamic, interconnected world?
4 June 2018
The deadline to submit a paper to Kaleidoscope 2018: Machine Learning for a 5G future, the tenth edition of ITU’s flagship academic event, has been extended to 25 June 2018.
14 April 2018
The ITU Focus Group establishing the foundations for machine learning to contribute to 5G systems will meet for the second time in Xi’an, China, 24-27 April 2018. A workshop held in conjunction with the meeting, 25 April 2018, will forecast the impact of Artificial Intelligence on ICT infrastructure.
8 February 2018
A new ITU Focus Group will propose standardization strategies to assist Machine Learning in contributing to the efficiency of emerging IMT-2020 (5G) systems. The group will define the requirements of Machine Learning as they relate to technology, data formats and network architectures.
8 December 2017
Security and privacy by design, open APIs, network virtualization, identity and authorization, analytics and accessibility have been identified by industry leaders as core principles to guide ITU standardization work towards 2020.
15 November 2017
A new ITU Focus Group will establish a basis for ITU standardization to assist machine learning in bringing more automation and intelligence to ICT network design and management. Participation is open to all interested parties.
