On 7 March 2019, UNESCO, the Permanent Mission of Montenegro to the United Nations and ITU co-hosted a round-table discussion called “Driving Digital Inclusion: what does it mean and what’s working?” The event brought together a diverse group of panelists including civil society, private sector and youth voices besides the UN entities.Read more about the event Read More

“This initiative by the European Commission, Directorate-General of Communications Networks, Content & Technology, takes a sweeping view of the current state of the Internet, its strengths but more importantly its weaknesses as we experience them today. The report provides a broad framework for re-imagining the Internet in the context of human values: safety, security, privacy, Read More

By Gabrielle Willms  “Digital inclusion impacts our ability to achieve all seventeen UN Sustainable Development Goals. Moreover, it inspires opportunity and prosperity and should be available to every human being on the planet.   As we celebrate the 30th birthday of the World Wide Web, which also fell during the week of the UN Commission on Read More

By Danny Sriskandarajah, Chief Executive of Oxfam GB, Member of the UN Secretary-General’s High Level Panel on Digital Cooperation Since 2005, the number of people using the Internet worldwide has quadrupled to four billion. Two thirds of the world’s population now own a mobile device. At some point this year, half the world will be Read More

By Jim Cashel “In the 25 years since the World Wide Web appeared with the launch of the Mosaic browser, about half the population of the planet has gained access to the internet. In the next three to five years the other half will be gaining access. That second half of the planet’s population, notably, Read More