116 leading robotics experts are urging the United Nations to take action in order to prevent the development of “killer robots”. The signers of the letter are calling for what they describe as “morally wrong” technology to be added to the list of weapons banned under the UN Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW). Along […]
Releasing new statistics today, the United Nations International Telecommunications Union (ITU) announced that by end of 2014, there will be nearly three billion Internet users — two-thirds of them from the developing world. Notably, the ITU is expecting mobile broadband penetration approaching 32 percent worldwide. In Africa, about one-fifth of the population will have access […]
The UN has set some aggressive goals for bringing the world online. The organization’s Broadband Commission for Digital Development has asked all countries to have broadband strategies in place by 2015. By that time, it has hopes that 50 percent of the populace living in developing countries, and 60 percent of those in developed nations, […]
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