The UN Broadband Commission has called for a “New Deal” involving fresh industry collaboration and public-private partnerships to help connect the 5 billion people who lack mobile broadband access. At the Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development’s…
Sweden’s H&M has become the first global fashion brand to join the United Nations’ Better Than Cash Alliance. The retailer says it will encourage its suppliers to pay their workers through mobile money or other digital forms to improve the livelihoods of its…
Germany’s Deutsche Post DHL Group and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) are once again conducting their joint preventative training, known as Get Airports Ready for Disaster (GARD), at Bali’s Ngurah Rai International Airport, Lombok…
The GSMA has published the first research into the global mobile industry’s contribution towards helping the UN achieve its sustainable development goals (SDGs). Prepared by Deloitte, the report also details several industry commitments and explores ways the…
Germany’s Deutsche Post DHL Group and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) are once again conducting their joint preventative training, known as Get Airports Ready for Disaster (GARD), from September 5 to 9 at Bali’s Ngurah Rai International…
A fund set as much as compensate the victims of Bangladesh’s Rana Plaza manufacturing unit collapse has lastly reached its US$30-million (RM112 million) goal, the UN’s Worldwide Labour Group stated Monday, greater than two years after the catastrophe left…