25 September 2020 / Inclusivity
A real world built and designed using data for men ignores the needs of half its population. This holds true even when artificial intelligence is harnessed to solve challenges facing all of humanity. The default human at the centre of...
- 25 September 2020
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22 September 2020 / Environment & Climate change
Many countries around the world came to an abrupt standstill due to COVID-19 this year – but the concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have continued to rise and emissions are heading back to pre-pandemic levels after a brief lull. As...
- 22 September 2020
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17 September 2020 / Inclusivity, Innovation & Creativity
Transformed in 2020 into all-online showcase of action-oriented AI projects and interactive expert talks, the AI for Good Global Summit will celebrate the culmination of its 2020 activities next week during the much-anticipated ‘Breakthrough Days’ to run from 21 to...
- 17 September 2020
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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. The group will...
- 7 September 2020
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24 August 2020 / Digital Economy, Smart Cities
The dream of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to develop smart cities stemmed from the government’s Vision 2021, an ambitious plan to make the UAE amongst the best countries in the world. By building smart cities, the UAE would clear...
- 24 August 2020
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5 August 2020 / 5G
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. Competitors are meeting new partners...
- 5 August 2020
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28 July 2020 / Innovation & Creativity, Sport
It’s no secret now that esports are taking over both real and virtual worlds with a global audience nearing half a billion spectators. And esports industry statistics are earth-shattering, with annual growth rates as high as 20 per cent and...
- 28 July 2020
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15 July 2020 / Innovation & Creativity, Sport
With a global audience of 450 million, annual growth rates of 20 per cent and revenues exceeding 1 billion USD per year, esports is among the fastest growing industries in the world. It also an exciting opportunity area to explore...
- 15 July 2020
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13 July 2020 / Culture
Imagine coming face-to-face with an artificial intelligence (AI) version of yourself. This ‘second self’ reflection looks or sounds just like you, but lacks your memories, experiences and emotions. But unlike gazing into a mirror, this ‘reflection’ can copy and learn...
- 13 July 2020
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6 July 2020 / Inclusivity, Innovation & Creativity
ITU News caught up with Chaesub Lee, Director of the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, to learn more about the latest ITU standards projects addressing AI and Machine Learning and the value of the AI for Good Global Summit. Where do...
- 6 July 2020
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24 June 2020 / Inclusivity, Innovation & Creativity
By ITU News Datasets relevant to sustainable development, expertise in AI and humanitarian action, and ‘AI for Good’ projects with ambitions to achieve global impact – these are the three key pillars of the Global Initiative on AI and Data...
- 24 June 2020
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23 June 2020 / Digital Economy
Africa is on the rise. Mobile and Internet penetration continue to rise, according to the latest ITU data. The continent’s entrepreneurs are taking advantage of this growth in connectivity, leading to a rapid growth of tech hubs across the continent in recent years,...
- 23 June 2020
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17 May 2020 / Inclusivity, Innovation & Creativity
*Today, ITU marks World Telecommunication and Information Society Day (WTISD). This year’s theme, “Connect 2030: ICTs for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)” focuses on the five strategic goals of the Connect 2030 Agenda: growth, inclusiveness, sustainability, innovation and partnership. Here is...
- 17 May 2020
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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...
- 13 May 2020
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12 May 2020 / Environment & Climate change
Fish have returned to the canals of Venice. Villagers across northern India can see the Himalayas over 200km away. Cities around the world are recording the cleanest air on record. As the world recently celebrated the 50th anniversary of Earth...
- 12 May 2020
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6 May 2020 / Ethics, Inclusivity
Artificial intelligence (AI) has a bias problem. Actually, AI has many well-documented bias problems. Chief among these, arguably, is gender bias. From the creation of data sets, to the way the data is collected and used, to the building of...
- 6 May 2020
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4 May 2020 / 5G, Digital Economy
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. There’s a first time for everything, and the combination of...
- 4 May 2020
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At a time when people around the world are observing social distancing measures to halt the spread of the global COVID-19 pandemic, driverless mobility – which, by definition, offers mobility with minimal human interaction – seems more relevant than ever....
- 29 April 2020
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Datasets relevant to sustainable development, expertise in AI and humanitarian action, and ‘AI for Good’ projects with ambitions to achieve global impact – these are the three key pillars of the Global Initiative on AI and Data Commons. The AI for Good...
- 23 April 2020
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15 April 2020 / Digital Economy, Smart Mobility
The recent COVID-19 crisis has reignited an intense discussion about rapidly deploying driverless cars. Indeed, some think that leveraging driverless platforms for on-demand mobility, like riding with Uber and Lyft, could substantially reduce the risk of virus infection to drivers. While driver health...
- 15 April 2020
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Digital health technologies are critical tools in the ongoing fight against the global COVID-19 pandemic. Artificial Intelligence (AI), big data, 5G and robotics can provide valuable and innovative solutions for patient treatment, frontline protection, risk reduction, communications and improved quality...
- 15 April 2020
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14 April 2020 / 5G
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. But mastering AI and Machine Learning will demand new expertise...
- 14 April 2020
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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. Today, 7 April 2020, is World Health Day – and an opportunity to...
- 7 April 2020
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Contact tracing is a key public health response to limit infectious disease outbreaks such as the global COVID-19 pandemic. More than ever, authorities worldwide are using the power of mobile technologies to help them understand and manage the spread of...
- 6 April 2020
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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. How...
- 2 April 2020
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23 March 2020 / Safety, Smart Mobility
Cars are becoming increasingly automated. Drivers already benefit from a wide range of advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS), such as lane keeping, adaptive cruise control, collision warning, and blind spot warning, which are gradually becoming standard features on most vehicles. Today’s...
- 23 March 2020
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27 February 2020 / Inclusivity, Innovation & Creativity
It is becoming clearer to the world that we can only achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030 if the innovative voices of those in Africa, who are most affected by the challenges, are involved. This is...
- 27 February 2020
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25 February 2020 / Health
We are witnessing a global shift from traditional, reactive healthcare to proactive health and wellbeing/wellness fuelled by digital solutions. A recently published article from mHealth shows that 75% of healthcare companies are planning to execute artificial intelligence (AI) strategies in 2020. This...
- 25 February 2020
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11 February 2020 / Inclusivity, Innovation & Creativity
Ten years remain to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Leaders in AI and humanitarian action will convene at the 2020 AI for Good Global Summit with strong intent to ensure that ‘AI for Good’ solutions achieve a scale...
- 11 February 2020
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3 February 2020 / Health
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...
- 3 February 2020
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20 December 2019 / Safety, Smart Mobility
The Symposium on the Future Networked Car within the 90th Geneva International Motor Show, 5 March 2020, will bring together the automotive and ICT industries to explore advances in connected, automated vehicles and associated implications for technology, business and regulation. The symposium is convened...
- 20 December 2019
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27 November 2019 / Safety, Smart Mobility
Two cars raced around a track in northern France. Both cars had 500 horse-power, 4-wheel drive, and are capable of reaching 282.42 km/h (175.49 mph) – but neither had a driver. “Roborace is a competition of software,” Lucas Di Grassi, Formula E champion...
- 27 November 2019
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12 November 2019 / Safety, Smart Mobility
What does a fully autonomous, electric, high-performance race car have to do with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? For starters, the vehicle, developed by Roborace, is providing a testing ground for new efforts to build public trust in how...
- 12 November 2019
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24 October 2019 / Inclusivity, Innovation & Creativity
*The following article is adapted from my remarks this week during the ‘AI Forum’ at the Sixth Wuzhen World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, China. In Game Two of the historic 2016 Go match between Lee Sedol and DeepMind’s AlphaGo, the...
- 24 October 2019
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2 October 2019 / Health
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. The Call for...
- 2 October 2019
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27 September 2019 / Inclusivity, Innovation & Creativity
*The following is a Foreword to the newly published compendium entitled, “United Nations Activities on Artificial Intelligence.“ Very few topics have captured the imagination of the public and promised to transform humanity more than artificial intelligence. In this publication, more...
- 27 September 2019
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26 September 2019 / Inclusivity, Innovation & Creativity
*The article below is adapted from remarks delivered in New York this week at the “Advancing the global goals with artificial intelligence” event, which was part of the SDG Action Zone, held during the High-level week of the UN General Assembly,...
- 26 September 2019
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17 September 2019 / Inclusivity
According to the latest World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report (2018), only 22 percent of Artificial Intelligence (AI) professionals globally are female compared to 78 percent who are male. This accounts for the general gender gap of 72 percent yet...
- 17 September 2019
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10 September 2019 / 5G, Cybersecurity
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...
- 10 September 2019
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23 August 2019 / Safety, Smart Mobility
ITU and ADA (Autonomous Drivers Alliance) aim to stimulate global dialogue around performance standards for the AI ‘Drivers’ steering autonomous vehicles. This dialogue will begin at an ITU-ADA workshop to be held in Budapest, Hungary, 10 September 2019, in conjunction with ITU Telecom...
- 23 August 2019
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20 August 2019 / 5G
A new ITU standard has established a basis for the cost-effective integration of Machine Learning into 5G and future networks. The standard – ITU Y.3172 – describes an architectural framework for networks to accommodate current as well as future use cases of...
- 20 August 2019
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16 August 2019 / Digital Economy
After a decade of flat productivity, the arrival of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) is expected to create up to $3.7 trillion in value to global manufacturing. A few years back, experts noted that the changes associated with the 4IR would...
- 16 August 2019
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1 August 2019 / Digital Economy, Inclusivity
Artificial intelligence is one of the hottest tickets in the ICT space right now – and the rapid proliferation of machine-learning platforms is bringing with it a raft of new types of jobs aimed at feeding data-devouring AI systems. One...
- 1 August 2019
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26 July 2019 / Safety, Smart Mobility
Motorsport has always provided a proving ground for new automotive technologies. Every year the Goodwood Festival of Speed celebrates that history featuring a wildly eclectic mix of one-of-a-kind vintage cars, the latest hypercars, drifting cars, SUVs ready for the Dakar Rally, and...
- 26 July 2019
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21 July 2019 / Culture, Digital Economy
Gone are the days of writer’s block. Today’s would-be songwriters now have a game-changing tool at their disposal — Artificial Intelligence (AI). Many now view AI as a partner in music making, enhancing music, and leveling the playing field —...
- 21 July 2019
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10 July 2019 / Environment & Climate change
Today, we are facing not one but two deep transformations. The first one, driven by the emergence of new technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), blockchain, the Internet of Things, 5G and others, is transforming our economies and our lives...
- 10 July 2019
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8 July 2019 / Disinformation, Ethics
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is poised to improve people’s lives worldwide and accelerate progress on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Yet, AI can also bring with it a host of unintended consequences. One of the most pernicious areas could...
- 8 July 2019
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- 8 July 2019
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4 July 2019 / Innovation & Creativity, Sport
As the top teams compete to become the 2018 World Cup champion, there’s another spectacle on display at the tournament in Russia: emerging technologies. The high-profile stage of the World Cup, which reached 3.2 billion viewers in the final match in...
- 4 July 2019
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- 13 June 2019
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11 June 2019 / Cybersecurity
Quantum computing is on the horizon. The emerging computing architecture renders possible a form of ‘super parallel processing’ based on quantum physics that can rapidly solve problems beyond the scope of what a classical computer can achieve. The technology is...
- 11 June 2019
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7 June 2019 / Digital Economy
*The following is adapted from remarks given at today’s ITU workshop on the future of television in Europe. Television is deeply woven into the fabric of our lives. Last year, almost 80 percent of households around the world had television. ITU’s...
- 7 June 2019
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7 June 2019 / Inclusivity, Innovation & Creativity
Last week’s 3rd annual AI for Good Global Summit once again showcased the growing number of Artificial Intelligence (AI) projects with promise to advance the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Now, using the Summit’s momentum, AI innovators and humanitarian leaders are...
- 7 June 2019
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3 June 2019 / Food
Roughly half of the 821 million people considered hungry by the United Nations are those who dedicate their lives to producing food for others: farmers. This is largely attributed to the vulnerability of farmers to agricultural risks, such as extreme...
- 3 June 2019
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31 May 2019 / Safety, Smart Mobility
This week’s AI for Good Global Summit has focused on how Artificial Intelligence can help achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs are very ambitious. They include ending poverty and hunger, providing quality education for all, bringing clean water...
- 31 May 2019
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31 May 2019 / Education
The world is changing dramatically, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming more integrated into society and work. As such, approaches to education are being reimagined. So how can AI be leveraged to improve education? How can you create AI solutions...
- 31 May 2019
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31 May 2019 / Health
Artificial Intelligence (AI) provides unprecedented opportunities to address ongoing challenges that stand in the way of providing quality healthcare for all. AI’s potential to assist medical decision-making at reduced cost is particularly immense. But before achieving what some have called...
- 31 May 2019
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31 May 2019 / Health
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are making a key contribution to innovation in health services and overarching health systems. We are living through a time of accelerating convergence. Technologies are converging. Industries are converging. Our world has become highly interconnected....
- 31 May 2019
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New developments in the space industry and advances in cloud computing are presenting opportunities to improve people’s lives at a pace and scale not seen before. From mapping poverty to improving food security to responding to disasters, these developments could...
- 30 May 2019
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29 May 2019 / Inclusivity, Innovation & Creativity
In the past 20 years or so, extreme poverty has fallen by some 50% globally. But when people are surveyed and asked to guess the decline in poverty rates, only around 1% of people get it right. Why is that?...
- 29 May 2019
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28 May 2019 / Inclusivity, Innovation & Creativity
The 3rd annual AI for Good Global Summit officially kicked off today with a range of inspiring messages, important discussions and examples of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in action. “Very few topics have captured the imagination of the public and promised to transform humanity...
- 28 May 2019
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24 May 2019 / Robotics for Good
Imagine you had a robotic copy of yourself – identical in height, weight, mobility and dexterity. Now, raise your arms, turn your head, bend your knees. If you can do it, then your robotic avatar can, too. In the future,...
- 24 May 2019
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23 May 2019 / Culture, Innovation & Creativity
Artificial Intelligence (AI) innovations have been causing quite a stir in the field of arts and culture lately. They have been creating movies, paintings, music, poetry — and much more. One prime example was when the first piece of AI-generated art to be sold at a...
- 23 May 2019
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22 May 2019 / Health
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) underpin today’s digital economy. This is true for many sectors, but it is especially exciting in the healthcare sector because of its potential to improve and even save lives. From remote surgery to improved diagnoses...
- 22 May 2019
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22 May 2019 / Inclusivity, Innovation & Creativity
*Mr McConaghy is leading the ‘Scaling AI for Good‘ track at next week’s AI for Good Global Summit. Artificial Intelligence (AI) can help meet the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). For example, AI researchers are already using satellite imagery to...
- 22 May 2019
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21 May 2019 / Inclusivity, Innovation & Creativity
Just over three years ago, XPRIZE launched the USD 5 million IBM Watson AI XPRIZE with the mission of accelerating the AI for Good movement. With artificial intelligence (specifically, the subfield of machine learning) evolving so quickly, we felt it was the right time to create...
- 21 May 2019
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21 May 2019 / Digital Economy
The world of work is riding a business transformation wave that is continuously buffeted by the latest technology developments, most recently in the realm of artificial intelligence (AI). Despite this relentless change, it is never just about the power of...
- 21 May 2019
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20 May 2019 / Inclusivity, Innovation & Creativity
ITU News asked Chaesub Lee, Director of ITU’s Telecommunication Standardization Bureau about the top use cases of AI now — and in the coming years. In mid 2019, where do you think we are in AI’s journey, and how much greater is the...
- 20 May 2019
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16 May 2019 / Inclusivity, Innovation & Creativity
Artificial intelligence (AI) will transform our lives. The question often posed is: will it be for better or for worse? At ITU, we are working hard with partners across the world to ensure the trusted, safe and inclusive development of AI technologies – and equitable...
- 16 May 2019
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9 May 2019 / Culture, Inclusivity
The Association for Computing Machinery presents the ACM A.M. Turing Award annually. Often referred to as the “Nobel Prize of Computing,” the A.M. Turing Award is accompanied by a USD1 million prize funded by Google. This past year, Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio...
- 9 May 2019
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6 May 2019 / Disinformation, Ethics
Can Artificial Intelligence (AI) capture the narrative of a global population on a controversial topic? At the AI for Good Global Summit we aim to find out. A few months ago, IBM unveiled Project Debater to the world. It’s the first ever AI technology...
- 6 May 2019
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30 April 2019 / Cybersecurity, Justice & Strong Institutions
ZeroAbuse approached Artificial Intelligence (AI) with a big question: Could we use AI and big data to track institutional behavior in response to perpetrators of child sexual abuse? We learned quickly that the answer is yes. We are developing ZeroAbuse.aiwith these...
- 30 April 2019
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29 April 2019 / Innovation & Creativity
As we know, the iMac came out in 1998. Apple’s slogan at the time — “think different” — represented both the company’s cornerstone message and their rallying cry as it rapidly innovated, finding ways to disrupt traditional industries. Whether it be the music or...
- 29 April 2019
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26 April 2019 / Robotics for Good
Robots and AI-powered products are increasingly used for tasks that can have a high impact on our daily lives. AI-powered products are, for instance, changing the way hiring procedures, credit ratings, or fraud detection are being carried out. Robots are...
- 26 April 2019
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24 April 2019 / Ethics, Inclusivity
Online advertising is often viewed as a kind of “necessary evil” to pay for free services such as Google and Facebook; the Faustian bargain at the heart of the “if you’re not paying for the product, you are the product”...
- 24 April 2019
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The potential value from artificial intelligence (AI) is enormous: some $16 trillion by 2030, according to a PwC study. But what are the costs of AI when not done properly — and what are some of the risks? What does it...
- 17 April 2019
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17 April 2019 / Cybersecurity, Ethics
Just last week, the European Union published its Guidelines for Trustworthy AI. A few weeks earlier, the first version of the IEEE initiative on Ethically Aligned Design of Intelligent and Autonomous Systems were presented. The impact of these two reports, coming from the...
- 17 April 2019
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15 April 2019 / Culture, Inclusivity
We are witnessing a pivotal time in human history, as artificial intelligence (AI) is integrated into just about every new or established industry. However, with this promise there is a global lack of understanding. What is AI and why should...
- 15 April 2019
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1 April 2019 / Inclusivity, Smart Cities
Much has been said about the ability of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to greatly enhance productivity. Unlike the industrial revolution where productivity was improved for labor-intensive work, AI extends that power to knowledge-based work, helping humans make better, faster and more...
- 1 April 2019
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29 March 2019 / Inclusivity, Innovation & Creativity
At their core, ‘AI for Social Good’ projects use artificial intelligence (AI) hardware and software technologies to positively impact the well-being of people, animals or the planet – and they span most, if not all, of the United Nations Sustainable Development...
- 29 March 2019
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Some futurists fear Artificial Intelligence (AI), perhaps understandably. After all, AI appears in all kinds of menacing ways in popular culture, from the Terminator movie dynasty to homicidal HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey. Though these movies depict Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) gone awry, it’s...
- 25 March 2019
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19 March 2019 / Inclusivity, Innovation & Creativity
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has taken giant leaps forward in recent years, inspiring growing confidence in AI’s ability to assist in solving some of humanity’s greatest challenges. Leaders in AI and humanitarian action are convening on the neutral platform offered by...
- 19 March 2019
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7 March 2019 / Disaster Management
At this year’s Global Forum on Emergency Telecommunications (GET-2019) in Balaclava, Mauritius, I presented a new ITU study on how disruptive technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, the Internet of Things, Big Data, robotics and drones can be used for effective disaster management....
- 7 March 2019
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8 February 2019 / 5G
“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. Cheng was highlighting the current state of...
- 8 February 2019
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23 January 2019 / Innovation & Creativity
Academia play an important role in the research and development of telecommunications and information and communication technologies (ICTs). As such, ITU is committed to strengthening the innovative roles of academic members in the work of the Union. This week, ITU...
- 23 January 2019
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22 January 2019 / Cybersecurity
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning have come a long way and are already being deployed by many of the world’s biggest information and telecommunication (ICT) companies to help combat the growing range of cyberattacks. AI still has a long...
- 22 January 2019
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11 January 2019 / Health
The global burden of mental illness, both in terms of human suffering and economic loss, is catastrophic and rapidly growing. Worldwide, mental health conditions affect more than a third of the world’s population. Just two conditions alone – depression and...
- 11 January 2019
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11 January 2019 / Cybersecurity
What are the implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) for security, understanding that AI and ML will add to the armouries of both attackers and defenders? This question will guide the discussions of an ITU workshop in Geneva,...
- 11 January 2019
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20 December 2018 / Inclusivity
ITU recently trialed an advanced software tool developed by the University of Southern California’s Signal Analysis and Interpretation Laboratory (SAIL) to track and measure progress towards gender equality targets at the recent ITU Plenipotentiary Conference 2018 (PP-18). The “USC Speech Pipeline” tool used machine...
- 20 December 2018
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18 December 2018 / Health
Universal Health Coverage Day, commemorated last week, has highlighted the urgent need to provide affordable and high-quality healthcare for all. Much progress has recently been achieved in global health thanks to the expanded delivery of lifesaving interventions like bednets and...
- 18 December 2018
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17 December 2018 / Data, Inclusivity
“With ICTs everywhere, data is being generated everywhere,” says ITU Secretary-General Houlin Zhao. “We have amassed an enormous wealth of data, creating a resource of enormous productive value.” The second issue of the ITU Journal – themed ‘Data for Good’...
- 17 December 2018
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23 November 2018 / Health
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...
- 23 November 2018
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6 November 2018 / Health
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. The Focus...
- 6 November 2018
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17 October 2018 / Inclusivity, Innovation & Creativity
Ahead of the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference 2018 (PP-18) – the top policy-making body of the International Telecommunication Union, taking place from 29 October to 16 November in Dubai – ITU News is highlighting some important and emerging areas of ITU’s work. The following...
- 17 October 2018
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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. An innovative chatbot called Raaji...
- 15 October 2018
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12 October 2018 / Digital Economy
In 2015, world leaders at the United Nations adopted 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with the ambition by 2030 to end poverty, promote prosperity and well-being for all, and protect the planet. Technologies have long been seen as effective vehicles of growth,...
- 12 October 2018
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7 October 2018 / 5G, Digital Economy
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. The first “Global ICT Regulatory Outlook” released last year by ITU showed that expectations of regulation in the field of...
- 7 October 2018
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1 October 2018 / Data, Smart Cities
The Georgia Institute of Technology is an Academia Member of ITU. The university’s Center for the Development and Application of Internet of Things Technologies (CDAIT) recently released a new paper titled “Foundational Research in Integrated Building Internet of Things (IoT)...
- 1 October 2018
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ITU Telecom World 2018, taking place this week in Durban, South Africa, brings together government officials, regulators, private company representatives and experts to discuss ways forward for smart digital development. “Smart digital development means a better life for all of...
- 14 September 2018
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11 September 2018 / 5G
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. ‘MVNOs have a...
- 11 September 2018
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7 September 2018 / Education
To mark International Literacy Day on 8 September, ITU News caught up with Matt Keller, Senior Director of the Global Learning XPRIZE. He is leading an effort that challenges teams from around the world to create innovative technologies that will...
- 7 September 2018
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6 September 2018 / Digital Economy
The following was adapted from a speech delivered by Malcolm Johnson, ITU Deputy Secretary-General, at the 26th Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Economic and Environmental Forum, “Leveraging the opportunities of the digital economy,” in Prague, 6 September 2018....
- 6 September 2018
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28 August 2018 / Innovation & Creativity
When you think about the potential of emerging technologies to improve people’s lives around the world, video games might not be the first things that come to mind. Yet, virtual games could play an important role in training Artificial Intelligence (AI)...
- 28 August 2018
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27 August 2018 / Cybersecurity
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been termed a “Digital Quake.” This term powerfully illustrates the impact of AI on our lives. There is a tendency for people to think that AI does not impact them. But anyone who uses a smartphone...
- 27 August 2018
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21 August 2018 / Health
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...
- 21 August 2018
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20 August 2018 / Health
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. French President Emmanuel Macron also aims...
- 20 August 2018
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10 August 2018 / Digital Economy
Flattening smartphone growth and the promise of using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to enhance user services are increasingly spurring smartphone companies to focus more on producing AI-powered applications on people’s mobile devices. ‘With the advantages machine learning brings to mobile devices, it’s hard...
- 10 August 2018
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