On 20 September, as a follow up to this year's World Cleanup Day and in conjunction with this week's UN General Assembly, Let's Do It World introduced World Cleanup Day to a distinguished panel and guests as a tool to accelerate the achievement of UN Sustainable Development Goals. ? With the support
DUBAI, 11th January, 2022 (WAM) Leaders of the UK Abraham Accords Group and Sharaka, will today sign a cooperation agreement (MoU) at a private event at the Crossroads of Civilisations Museum in Dubai, UAE.
Signing on behalf of the UK Abraham Accords Group will be the Rt Hon Dr. Liam Fox MP, former UK Secretary of State for Defense and former UK Secretary of State for International Trade, and the Group’s Executive Director, Laura Roberts.
Dr. Fox is leading a delegation of British MPs.
Reach every home: building universal digital services
By Adam Branson on 18/01/2021
A digital infrastructure for everyone: affordability and public confidence are as crucial to online service delivery as network coverage. Credit: Forestinteractive/Wikimedia.
Governments need strong digital infrastructure to provide citizens with online services and boost economic growth. At a GGF webinar, the panel considered how to develop national communications networks – and how to get people using them. Adam Branson reports
During 2020, governments around the world responded to the coronavirus by rapidly moving services online – making them available to citizens even during lockdowns, while protecting both staff and users from the risk of infection. But availability doesn’t guarantee accessibility: to ensure that everyone can use online public services, governments must extend digital networks into every home. And as the pandemic pushes ever broader swathes of activity online – from