The ITU Secretary-General addressed the 33^rd Meeting of ITU's Radiocommunication Advisory Group (RAG), the body tasked with reviewing strategies and priorities adopted in the ITU Radiocommunication Sector (ITU-R), guiding the work of ITU-R study groups, and recommending measures to foster cooperation across ITU and with other organizations.​

"What's needed now is collective will, fuelled by the urgency of a widening AI divide," said ITU Secretary-General Doreen Bogdan-Martin during high-level dialogues ahead of the IX Assembly of the Inter-American Telecommunication Commission (CITEL). "Because behind every network we build, every innovation we create, every policy we shape are people. And they are counting on us." ​

ITU Secretary-General Doreen Bogdan‑Martin was received by His Holiness Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican. "Reflections on AI, outer space, the Internet and our shared digital future remind us that technology must always serve humanity, guided by responsibility and the common good," she said afterwards.​

On the first day of this year's first meeting of the Telecommunication Standardization Advisory Group (TSAG), the ITU Secretary-General said that "in a fragmented global environment, standards offer a universal language for cooperation", and that "the stability and disciplined cooperation that ITU offers ꟷ and that standards enable ꟷ matter more than ever". ​​​​