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INTERNET WELL ON WAY TO 3 BILLION USERS, UN TELECOM AGENCY REPORTS

05/12/2014

Releasing new statistics today, the United Nations International Telecommunications Union (ITU) announced that by end 2014, there will be nearly three billion Internet users – two-thirds of them from the developing world – with mobile-broadband penetration approaching 32 per cent.“The newly released ICT figures confirm once again that information and communication technologies continue to be the key drivers of the information society,” said Hamadoun I. Touré, ITU Secretary-General.Brahima Sanou, the Director of ITU’s Telecommunication Development…

THE FIRST-HAND TRUTH ABOUT HUMANITARIAN AID Interview with Jan Egeland, Secretary-General of the Norwegian Refugee Council

05/08/2014

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Jan Egeland was the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator from June 2003 to December 2006 and, due to his outspokenness and general manner, he was a very popular man with journalists, in particular in Geneva. It was perhaps one of the most exciting or, should one rather say, dramatic periods with, for instance, the Indian Ocean Tsunami and other disasters one after the other. Jan was there talking to the press, denouncing and drawing attention to many…