Internet

Delphine Schantz, Senior legal officer, UN Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate.
Priyanka Shankar

Terrorist groups exploit social media, ICTs to fund activities

27 December 2016
General News

Terrorist groups are exploiting all the new social media platforms and communication technologies to expand and fund their activities, according to a representative from the UN’s Counter Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED).

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Participants at the 11th annual United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Jalisco, Mexico.
IGF

UN Internet Governance Forum closes with call to close ‘digital divide’

9 December 2016
Underlining the urgency to close the “digital divide” – socio-economic inequalities that impact access to or use of information and communication technologies – the 11th annual United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF) closed today with a call for concerted actions to ensure that all people in all countries are able to reap the benefits of the Internet.
Lenni Montiel.
UN Photo/Kim Haughton

Internet forum addresses challenge of connecting 3.9 billion

6 December 2016
General News

With nearly four billion people still unable to get online, the UN Internet Governance Forum provides a valuable “space” to discuss ways of connecting even the poorest rural areas of the world.

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Jean-Paul Laborde.
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe

Global response needed to stop use of ICTs to commit terrorist acts

1 December 2016
General News

A global response is needed to stop extremism on the internet and in social media, the head of the UN’s anti-terrorism body (UNCTED) has urged.

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