"DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY"

The World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General said today that COVID-19 remains a global health emergency, even though, as the world enters the fourth year of the pandemic, “there is no doubt we are in a far better situation now than we were a year ago, when the Omicron wave was at its peak.” WHO

Briefing by Paulina Kubiak, Spokesperson for the President of the 77th Session of the General Assembly.

Despite pandemic, climate crises, global goals in social protection, education still within reach, Economic and Social Council President tells General Assembly.

Protect freedom of expression as a vital ‘survival right’ of civilians in armed conflict, a UN expert said. UNIFEED

“Without peace we will not achieve Zero Hunger and the Sustainable Development Goals,” Qu Dongyu, Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), said at the Agriculture Ministers Meeting of the G20 held this week in Bali, Indonesia. FAO

Maria-Francesca Spatolisano, Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Inter-Agency Affairs of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, said, “The future is not digital, but hybrid.” UNIFEED

Press conference by Maria-Francesca Spatolisano, Vincenzo Aquaro (UN DESA) on the 2022 edition of the UN E-Government Survey - The Future of Digital Government.

A live broadcast event with global leaders and change makers to explore how new data ecosystems can unlock exponential value for the big challenges of our time.

Noon briefing by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

People’s rights to privacy is coming under even greater pressure from the use of modern networked digital technologies whose features make them formidable tools for surveillance, control and oppression, a new UN report has warned. UNTV CH