organization:international telecommunication union

#Huawei allegations driven by politics not evidence : U.N. telecoms chief - Reuters
▻https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-huawei-tech-un-idUSKCN1RH1KN

Houlin Zhao, secretary-general of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), told reporters in Geneva that security of 5G networks was in everybody’s interest but so far he had not seen anything to substantiate claims about Huawei.

#etats-unis #chine

Nearly 47 per cent of global population now online - et autres stats sur la #connectivité mondiale dans le dernier rapport de l’#ITU
▻http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsId=54931

Even though China and India are now the largest Internet markets on the planet, they are also among the six countries that together account for 55 per cent of the global ‘offline’ population, according to a new report of a United Nations commission.

Furthermore, 20 countries including United States, China and India make up almost three-fourths of the world population not using the Internet.

“These findings suggest that targeted efforts in just a few key markets could help enormously in redressing the gaping ‘digital divide’ between those who are online and those still offline,” said the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), a specialized UN agency, in a news release today.

Released just ahead of the 14th meeting of the UN Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development, to be held on 18 September, in New York, the report The State of Broadband 2016 also highlighted the potential of mobile broadband, with 165 countries now having deployed the 4th generation or ‘4G’ high-speed mobile networks.
▻http://www.broadbandcommission.org/Documents/reports/bb-annualreport2016.pdf (PDF)

“As smartphone penetration reaches near-saturation in the US, Europe and mature markets in Asia like Japan and [Democratic Republic of] Korea, India and Indonesia in particular are expected to drive future growth,” ITU added.

Findings from the report also revealed that that India, which overtook the US to become the world’s second largest Internet market (333 million users), also overtook that country to become the world’s second-largest smartphone market, with an estimated 260 million mobile broadband subscriptions.

via @opironet

Now Learners Don’t Need An Internet Connection To Watch Khan Academy Lessons
►http://singularityhub.com/2012/12/21/now-learners-dont-need-an-internet-connection-to-watch-khan-academy-

It’s easy in this day and age to get the impression that everyone in the world is connected to the web, but that’s far from the case. In fact, statistics from the International Telecommunication Union show that only 35 percent of the world are considered Internet users. That’s 4.5 billion people who are not online (...)

KA Lite currently works by syncing data between devices and a central server that stores all the content. The server can be set up via a web app once and then cloned to other devices offline (although making this smoother is in the works). Using Wi-Fi or cellular networks, transmitted data are tagged with an anonymous key that acts as a signature for each device. (...) it is an open source project.

#cccp #mesh #éducation

Durant la guerre d’octobre 1973, Israël sabote les câbles sous-marins de télécommunications dans les eaux territoriales libanaises. Israël est condamné par l’instance internationale des télécoms des Nations unies.

►http://www.itu.int/dms_pub/itu-s/oth/02/01/S020100001F4008PDFE.pdf

Résolution No. 48

Destruction of Submarine Cables in the Eastern Mediterranean

The Plenipotentiary Conference of International Telecommunication Union (Malaga-Torremolinos, 1973),

learning

that two submarine cables, on from Beirut to Marseilles linking Lebanon with Europe and the American Continent and the other from Beirut to Alexandria linking Lebanon with Africa, were put out of action in Lebanese territorial waters during the night of 17 to 18 Octobre 1973;

noting

that all information and checks point to the fact that this grave act of sabotage was deliberately perpetrated by a country Member of the Union, namely the State of Israel;

taking into account

the International Telecommunication Convention (Montreux 1965), with is binding on all Members, and in particular the provisions of 1, 17, 18, 24, 282 and 286;

realizing

that putting these cables out of action gravely prejudices the political, economic and human interests of Lebanon and other user countries;

believing

that such acts are harmful to the progress and development of people;

confirming

that the destruction of means of telecommunication between peoples runs counter to one of the main purposes of the Union, which is to extend international corporation for the improvement and rational use of telecommunications of all kind;

condemns without appeal

such a policy of destruction and the author of that destruction, the State of Israel;

resolves

to envisage, in the event of any repetition of such acts contrary to the rules and practices governing international relations, all appropriate sanctions, including the suspension, and even the exclusion of the State of Israel.

Hezbollah casts doubt on telecoms data – Daily Star
►http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Politics/2011/Aug-26/Hezbollah-casts-doubt-on-telecoms-data.ashx#axzz1W3CekKBX

“The scale of breaches in the telecoms network and Israeli capabilities in controlling it has led the network to be open for infiltration for years,” said Fadlallah, adding that Israel could have easily tampered with such data.

[...]

Fadlallah said that the court’s indictment completely ignored a recent report by the International Telecommunications Union, which decried Israel for interference in Lebanon’s telecoms.

ITU, a telecoms agency of the U.N., passed a resolution in a summit in Mexico in 2010 condemning Israel for piracy, infiltration and obstruction of Lebanon’s telecoms sector.

“How can the STL, which is also a U.N. body, ignore such a resolution passed by the highest telecoms authority in the world?” Fadlallah asked.

Évidemment, aucune mention dans les médias français aujourd’hui. Aucune des médias français qui évoquent régulièrement l’acte d’accusation et les membres du Hezbollah « compromis » par l’analyse des communications téléphoniques ne se risquera à évoquer cette déclaration de l’Union internationale des télécommunications.