| Together we can defeat the COVID-19 - 04/01/2021 |
| Royal Government of Bhutan |
| TELECOM/ICT Policy Makers and Regulators | Asia & Pacific | Bhutan |
| The Royal Government of Bhutan is putting in place every measure necessary to safeguard the people of Bhutan from the COVID-19 pandemic – the Coronavirus. With our biggest assurance and comfort coming from His Majesty The King who is selflessly looking after the people, at such a difficult time, we on our part must remain united and support one another to contain the spread of the virus in our cou (...) |
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| Affordability of communication services - A summary of initial findings - 18/12/2020 |
| OFCOM |
| TELECOM/ICT Policy Makers and Regulators | Europe | United Kingdom |
| Ensuring that people can access affordable communications services is a priority for OFCOM. Many people’s finances have changed significantly this year, with some facing particular challenges. Since the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic began, OFCOM has collected new information on the affordability of communications services. This is in addition to our usual monitoring and includes a monthly COVID- (...) |
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| Infrastructure beyond COVID-19: A national study on the impacts of the pandemic on Australia - 16/12/2020 |
| Australian Government |
| TELECOM/ICT Policy Makers and Regulators | Asia & Pacific | Australia |
| The silver lining of the COVID-19 pandemic is that to date Australia has handled the pandemic well, supported by critical infrastructure services and networks that were able to reconfigure quickly and deliver differently, and showed a resilience beyond many other OECD nations. The Infrastructure Australia report found that: • The pandemic catalysed rapid adoption of digital collaboration tools – (...) |
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| Building Disaster Resilience through Emergency Telecommunications - 15/12/2020 |
| ITU |
| International and Regional Organizations | International |
| ITU and USTTI jointly hosted a 2-day webinar on 15 and 16 December titled Building Disaster Resilience through Emergency Telecommunications. Sessions on day 1 included welcome remarks from Director BDT, a presentation from EET that focused on ITU’s global guidelines for the development of National Emergency Telecommunication Plans, as well as an overview of the Common Alerting Protocol and Cellula (...) |
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| New Revenue Streams for Local Government - 11/12/2020 |
| COMBTEK |
| TELECOM/ICT Operators and Service Providers | Africa | South Africa |
| The need for Municipalities to come up with New Revenue Streams is well documented and acknowledged by Local Government. UN HABITAT, in its current document entitled THE STRATEGIC PLAN 2020-2023 UN HABITAT cites the need for Local Government to come up with new Revenue Streams given the inadequacy of existing revenues in providing Basic Services to Citizens. COMBTEK has conceptualized solutions to (...) |
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| ITU-Enhanced Integrated Framework project “Tech as a Driver of Women’s Economic Opportunity in Burundi, Ethiopia and Haiti” - 04/12/2020 |
| ITU |
| International and Regional Organizations | International |
| Four workshops were held as part of the ITU-Enhanced Integrated Framework project “Tech as a Driver of Women’s Economic Opportunity in Burundi, Ethiopia and Haiti” (a joint contribution to EQUALS). Two workshops in Ethiopia at the beginning of December focused on enhancing women’s opportunities in the Textiles and Apparel sector, with discussions of new technologies, opportunities and challenges t (...) |
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