Location: Geneva
ITU Telecom World 2009 is shaping into an arena set to bridge public and private interests. ITU and other UN agencies are coming together with industry partners to showcase the role and reach of ICT in making a real difference to lives around the world. Key issues are addressed in the Forum with their applications highlighted on the showfloor. View pavilion participation options online.
Thematic pavilions include...
- eHealth Pavilion - WHO
From applications as simple as targeted SMS, to remind patients to attend a hospital or take medication to more complex methods for handling records, information, schedules and much more, the potential for eHealth applications across the globe is considerable. eHealth applications have the power to truly save lives. Download the pdf here for further information.
- Empowering People with Disabilities through ICTs - UNESCO
About 10 per cent of the world’s population has a disability of one form or another. While their living conditions vary, these people are united in one common experience – being exposed to various forms of discrimination and social exclusion. Even in the absence of a well-coordinated and well-planned infrastructure, ICTs can offer people with disabilities new opportunities to compensate for physical and functional limitations, access knowledge by adapting media to their impairment, and enhance social and economic integration. Download the pdf here for further information.
- Green@ICT - WMO
Green@ICT showcases how greening the ICT industry and using ICT to green other industries, not only helps reduce greenhouse gas emissions but also makes good business sense. Green is lean in today’s hard economic times. It reduces operating expenditures, gives good returns on capital expenditures and offers new competitive positioning in today’s tough marketplace. With the upcoming Copenhagen Conference as a followup to the Kyoto meeting on Climate Change, the time has come for important decisions and innovations to truly make a difference. Download the pdf here for further information.
- Transport & Access: A Standards Showcase - ITU
Examining optical transport and access infrastructures, in order to help operators maximize network capacity is central to the standardization work of ITU. From standards for DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) to PON (Passive Optical Networking) or WDM (Wave Division Multiplexing), ITU has been responsible for the development of core transport and access standards in wide use today. Download the pdf here for further information.
Contacts:
http://www.itu.int/world2009/marketing/email/pavilions_publishers.html