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Burkina Faso President announced as new Chairman of IMPACT Advisory Board

10/27/2011

Geneva, 25 October 2011 – Blaise Compaoré, President of Burkina Faso, has been appointed Chairman of the International Advisory Board (IAB) of the International Multilateral Partnership Against Cyber Threats (IMPACT), which serves at the executing arm of the ITU in the area of cyber security. Mr Compaoré takes over from former Malaysian Prime Minister Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, who served as founding Chairman of the IAB. The handover ceremony was held today at the ITU Telecom World 2011 event…

Interview with Dr. Serguei Kouzmine Head, Trade Facilitation Unit Trade and Sustainable Land Management Division UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)

10/23/2011

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When the computer “revolution” started about forty years ago, and even up until today, we believed that we were moving away from a paper-based society towards a digital one –– and yet this has not happened. Mr Kouzmine (and his colleagues) is working on a new initiative at the Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) with the aim of standardizing and facilitating trade documents and data exchange. This will be done electronically in order to assist trade and, in particular,…