Internet

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UN official urges regulators to help increase broadband penetration worldwide

10 November 2010
The head of the United Nations telecommunications agency urged regulators to build on massive recent growth in mobile cellular penetration worldwide and try to repeat that success with Internet and broadband.
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Number of Internet users to surpass 2 billion by end of year, UN agency reports

19 October 2010
The number of Internet users worldwide has doubled in the past five years and will surpass the 2 billion mark in 2010, with the majority of the 226 million new users this year coming from developing countries, the United Nations telecommunication agency reported today.
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UN telecom agency joins forces with Portugal to bring laptops to schools

30 September 2010
The United Nations International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and Portugal have joined forces to bring laptops to schools in developing countries.
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Internet can help reach anti-poverty goals, UN official tells governance forum

14 September 2010
A senior United Nations official today urged participants at the Internet Governance Forum to harness the many ways in which the Internet can help in attaining the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on poverty, hunger, disease and other ills.
Francis Gurry, Director General of WIPO

Evictions of cybersquatters on the rise under UN resolution process

23 March 2010
Some of the teams playing in this year’s World Cup soccer competition in South Africa participated in the thousands of cybersquatting trademark cases resolved quickly under the auspices of the United Nations intellectual property agency, according to figures released today.

Internet access for visually impaired is focus of UN workshop

5 February 2010
Nearly 200 cyber experts and other stakeholders seeking access to the Web for scores of millions of people with visual and other disabilities wrapped up a four-day United Nations workshop in Geneva today, stressing the need for universal access despite handicaps.