Coding with impact: Training female tech talent from Latin America
“We want to train young women to make them talented and globally competitive software developers.”
Meet Mariana Costa Checa, a young social entrepreneur from Peru....
Leveraging Community Mapping to another Level
Community Mapping, often referred to as Public Participatory Geographic Information Systems (PPGIS), can be used to narrate a story surrounding what is occurring everyday...
UN forum to spotlight ways ICT can help beat poverty and boost development
Making information and communication technology (ICT) readily available for vulnerable countries and harnessing it’s potential to help tackle a raft of ills – from...
UN Rideshare app makes its debut at Asia-Pacific Clean Air Week
A new UN Rideshare mobile application, brainchild of the Bangkok-based UN Office of Information and Communication Technology, will be launched and demonstrated during Clean...
WEF Launches Tech for Integrity Platform in Anti-Corruption Drive
The World Economic Forum’s Partnering Against Corruption Initiative (PACI) has launched a Tech for Integrity platform to accelerate anti-corruption efforts and reduce the time...
New Principles to Make Machine Learning More Human
Strong standards are urgently needed to prevent discrimination and marginalization of humans in artificial intelligence. This is the finding of a new white paper,...
Technology through the lens of occupational hazards and risks
The premise of occupational safety and health – my field of specialization — is that work should do no harm to health and in...
How to be ‘money smart’ in a digital world
Modern digital technology has replaced landlines, television antennas, VCRs, CDs and many other things that were once part of our daily lives — and...
New communications technologies essential to empower poor rural women
To mark International Women’s Day, the three United Nations Rome-based agencies are spotlighting the role new innovations in information and communications technologies (ICTs) can...
Europe Needs to Boost Skills and Unshackle Firms as Tech Revolution Risks Leaving Poorest Behind
The rise of technology risks leaving Europe’s poorest countries, lagging regions and unskilled workers behind, deepening economic divides within the EU, says a new...