{"id":264805,"date":"2026-06-05T06:31:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T10:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/05\/itu-and-unesco-strengthen-collaboration-on-green-digital\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T07:40:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T11:40:38","slug":"itu-and-unesco-strengthen-collaboration-on-green-digital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/05\/itu-and-unesco-strengthen-collaboration-on-green-digital\/","title":{"rendered":"ITU and UNESCO strengthen collaboration on green digital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unesco.org\/en\/articles\/itu-and-unesco-strengthen-collaboration-green-digital-transformation-equatorial-guinea\">ITU and UNESCO strengthen collaboration on green digital<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unesco.org\/en\/articles\/itu-and-unesco-strengthen-collaboration-green-digital-transformation-equatorial-guinea\">https:\/\/www.unesco.org\/en\/articles\/itu-and-unesco-strengthen-collaboration-green-digital-transformation-equatorial-guinea<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-05 06:31:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.unesco.org\">www.unesco.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The International Telecommunication Union (ITU), in collaboration with UNESCO and other United Nations partners, advanced standards\u2011based approaches to green digital transformation and climate action at the sixteenth Symposium on Information and Communication Technologies, Environment, Climate Change and Circular Economy. The event took place from 19 to 22 May 2026 in Malabo, Republic of Equatorial Guinea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Held under the theme \u2018<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Driving Digital Climate Action through Standards for Environmental Sustainability and Circular Economy<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u2019, the Symposium brought together policymakers, regulators, technical experts and international organizations to strengthen cooperation on sustainable digital development across Africa.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Organized by ITU and the Ministry of Transport, Telecommunications and Artificial Intelligence Systems of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, the Symposium benefited from the contributions of United Nations partners and other key co-organizers. UNESCO brought its normative expertise on sustainable digital transformation and\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Green AI<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">, alongside the Environmental Coalition on Standards (ECOS), Smart Africa, the Sustainable Electronics Platform (STEP), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) and the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The opening session featured Mr Honorato Evita Oma, Minister of Transport, Telecommunications and Artificial Intelligence Systems of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, who highlighted national priorities centred on youth empowerment, sustainable digital transformation and climate action.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unesco.org\/en\/articles\/itu-and-unesco-strengthen-collaboration-green-digital-transformation-equatorial-guinea\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITU and UNESCO strengthen collaboration on green digital https:\/\/www.unesco.org\/en\/articles\/itu-and-unesco-strengthen-collaboration-green-digital-transformation-equatorial-guinea Publish Date: 2026-06-05 06:31:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":264808,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.unesco.org\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/best_image\/article\/2026-06\/ITU_16th%20Symposium_1.jpg.webp?itok=nzV397ZI","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264805"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264809,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264805\/revisions\/264809"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}