{"id":353,"date":"2020-10-04T18:55:13","date_gmt":"2020-10-04T18:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kitaw.info\/en\/?p=353"},"modified":"2020-10-05T19:35:46","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T19:35:46","slug":"digitalcooperation-action-today-for-future-generations-23-september-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kitaw.info\/en\/2020\/10\/04\/digitalcooperation-action-today-for-future-generations-23-september-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Cooperation – Action Today for Future Generations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On the 23rd of September 2020, in conjunction with the 75th Anniversary of the United Nations, UNICEF, the International Telecommunication Union, UNDP, and the Office of the Special Adviser to the Secretary-General, on Digital Cooperation, working together with other UN partners convened a High-Level Digital Cooperation event<\/a>, focused on concrete actions to safeguard the technological era for future generations. It is our global shared responsibility to find a path forward and to build back better digitally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The panel included H.E. Sahle-Work Zewde, President of Ethiopia, H.E. Paula Ingabire, Minister of ICT & Innovation, on behalf of H.E. Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor of the World Wide Web and was moderated by Doreen Bogdan-Martin, Director Telecommunication Development Bureau, ITU<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Ethiopia places Digital Connectivity in a wider context of socio economic objectives of its homegrown economic reform agenda”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“At the multilateral level, we need to identify mechanisms to ensure that digital technologies are used in a way that optimally shows their promising, bright and positive applications”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

H.E. Sahle-Work Zewde, President of Ethiopia at the High Level Meeting organized by UNICEF, the International Telecommunication Union, UNDP, and the Office of the Special Adviser to the Secretary-General, in conjunction with the 75th Anniversary of the United Nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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