Valuable exchange with industry stakeholders convened by the International Chamber of Commerce yesterday as part of the #UN Global Dialogue on #AIGovernance consultations. Great to join HE Egiselda López & HE Rein Tammsaar virtually from Geneva.
#UNESCO @unodet.bsky.social #AIforGood #WSIS
Great to meet @oecd-ocde.bsky.social DSG Yasushi Masaki. Looking forward to further strengthening collaboration on #digital #connectivity, #infrastructure investments & #AI, incl in the lead up to #UN Global Dialogue on #AIGovernance &
#AIforGood in Geneva.
Great to catch up w/ #UNESCO DDG Åsa Regnér &ADGs Gabriel Mariya & Lidia Brito.
Strong @itu.int & UNESCO partnership, eg on #AI, #WSIS, #DigitalEducation, demonstrates how the #UN delivers together
Looking forward to our joint initiatives, incl #UN Global Dialogue on #AIGovernance
Celebrating Easter at the place where our family was born!
May this sacred time bring all of us reinforced hope, a spirit of renewal, and a shared sense of the humanity where we sacrifice for one another
Happy Easter! 🐣
Great to contribute to Annual Meeting of the Geneva Chamber of Commerce
Geneva is @itu.int's home since 1948 and provides great environment for us to thrive here
The United Nations strongly contributes to #Geneva too with ~11% of the economy, 1/10 jobs, 6,000+ meetings/year w/ ~600k participants🤝
Great to welcome VP Bachelet, SG Agüero & team of the Club de Madrid, to discuss the future of #multilateralism in a world of rapidly emerging tech, like #AI 🤖
Looking forward to the UN Global Dialogue on #AIGovernance this July in Geneva, alongside our AIforGood Global Summit and WSIS Forum
Full room at our Demystifying Digital session, hosted by the UK's Mission in Geneva
As natural disasters & conflicts rise, telecoms are a vital lifeline, underpinning #humanitarian response & #EW4All to save lives & strengthen resilience
Great to engage w/Member States on how to make it work 4 all
Great exchange w/Dr Natalie Nimmer, Education Commissioner (Marshall Islands), on advancing #SchoolConnectivity, developing #DigitalSkills &strengthening #ChildProtection in digital. Remote #Pacific islands are exactly where digital opportunities can truly be life-changing @gigaglobal.bsky.social
Great to welcome HE Lametti, Canada's Amb to the UN in New York, to @itu.int to discuss the future of #AI and UN's Global Dialogue on #AIGovernance alongside AIforGood Global Summit & WSIS Forum, as well as #UN80 & #UNreform Looking forward to continued collaboration!
@globalaffairs.canada.ca
At @nizamiganjaviic.bsky.social #GlobalBakuForum leveraged @itu.int experience to discuss #UN delivery in #VUCA world
🗝️to success
✔️focus on areas of interdependency
✔️clear neutrality
✔️private sector engagement
✔️continuous adaptation
✔️intra-UN collaboration
✔️well-managed organization
#GBF
Excellent exchange w/ @melindabohannon.bsky.social, Director General, Global Issues FCDO🇬🇧, on rapid technological change & developments across the #digital sector. Big thanks to #UK for fruitful collaboration w/ @itu.int & shared commitment to advancing the global digital agenda
Speaking on #Youth & #AI at the UN Human Rights Council: It is essential to ensure that every young person has access to AI tools & has skills to thrive in AI-driven world, while managing new risks
🙏 Amb Sharaf Sheralizoda of Tajikistan, the Mission of Qatar & GCC
@gigaglobal.bsky.social @itu.int
As always, a pleasure to welcome Minister of Justice and Digital Affairs, Liisa-Ly Pakosta & Amb Riia Salsa-Audiffren to @itu.int
We look forward to strengthening our strong collaboration w/ Estonia, advancing our shared agenda on #AI, #DigitalPublicInfrastructure & #DigitalResilience
Ramadan Kareem! رمضان كريم ✨🌙
أتمنى لجميع أصدقائي المسلمين وعائلاتهم شهراً مليئاً بالسلام والخير
Full room at the Investment Breakfast #PortoCableSummit on funding & partnerships in #SubmarineCable sector to advance #DigitalConnectivity in underserved markets through investments w/ Prof Maximiano (ANACOM), HE Bosun Tijani, and partners from the public and private sector @gigaglobal.bsky.social
Great fireside chat w/ co-chairs of Int’l Advisory Body on #Submarine Cable #Resilience Prof Maximiano & Minister Bosun Tijani at #PortoCableSummit!
Recommendations for strengthening this critical infra has now been agreed. Next: translating them into implementation!
@itu.int team is ready to welcome governments, industry& intl’organizations to #PortoCableSummit
On 2-3 Feb we’ll be working together to strengthen #resilience of critical submarine cable infrastructure
🙏ANACOM 🇵🇹for hosting us,& @bosuntijani.bsky.social & Prof Maximiano for leadership!
Great to discuss preparations for #COP31 w/ H.E. Burak Akçapar, Ambassador of Türkiye to the #UN
@itu.int is ready to leverage #GreenDigitalAction to help ensure that #digital tech & #AI revolution supports #climate goals while boosting development around the 🌍
#AIforGood
Opened the #SpaceDebrisConference 2026 yesterday. ~13k satellites are already in orbit, w/ deployment accelerating. Sustaining the benefits of the space economy for present & future generations depends on predictable, responsible, & inclusive management of space resources.
Always a pleasure catching-up w/ Aarti! UNOOSA is a key partner of @itu.int in ensuring that space serves everyone! #SpaceDebrisConference #OneUN #UNDelivers
2025 taught me resilience isn’t abstract-it’s lived
From #SubmarineCables & #satellites to #AI standards&skills, #GreenDigitalAction &support for communities affected by wars &disasters,adaptation was key. 2026 is @itu.int ’s Year of Resilience. Let’s build it together
#HappyNewYear
Christmas back home in Gargždai🇱🇹🎄Family, familiar streets, and the quiet reminder of what truly matters.
Recharging with the people and values that shaped us - and carrying them forward. #MerryChristmas #SuSvKaledom #UnpaidPromo
At these particularly hectic times, it is all the more important to take a moment to pause & recalibrate
🙏 to the Indian Permanent Mission to Geneva for inviting me to join Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar's meditation session in Geneva as Chief Guest
#WorldMeditationDay
Opened my last @itu.int event of the year: the ITU–IEEE Symposium.
The key question: How can we deliver solutions without adding to the problem?
#GreenDigitalAction
Kicked off the International #AI #Standards Summit by @isostandards.bsky.social, @iecstandards.bsky.social & @itu.int in Seoul!
Standards are key to translating lofty policy objectives into technologies that we use #AIforGood
Honour having PM Kim Min-seok w/ us
🙏Korea for hosting!
2 weeks of #ITUWTDC in Baku wrapped!🌍
2,500+ participants from 150+ countries discussed how to advance global digital development.
🙏 Deputy Minister of #DigitalDevelopment & Transport Asadov Samaddin, Chair of #WTDC25, for your leadership, & Minister Rashad Nabiyev for the generous hosting.
@itu.int
Joined the launch of @itu.int's Stocktaking at #COP30noBrasil on how climate pledges capture digital impact🌱
90% of Nationally Determined Contributions mention digital solutions. Yet the digital sector’s own footprint still goes uncounted. #GreenDigitalAction
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📏Standards enable the green&digital transitions to advance together, supporting both innovation&accountability
W/@iecstandards.bsky.social & @isostandards.bsky.social, @itu.int is ensuring #COP30noBrasil promises translate into measurable climate impact
#GreenDigitalAction #WorldStandardsCooperation
Great honour to meet Frederico Siqueira, Minister of @mincomunicacoes.bsky.social, at @cop30brazil.bsky.social
Inspiring to see Brazil’s leadership in #GreenDigitalAction, from the new hub to be anchored in Brazil as lasting COP30 legacy to initiatives, such as Norte Conectado & Mutirão TecnoClima🌍💡
