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Sustainable development depends more than ever on connecting all communities to digital resources and knowledge. Innovation is integral to the economic growth of countries and the digital inclusion of societies in a post-COVID-19 world. Next year the is hosting the  focused on connectivity. In the series, an event discussing will take place on 21 July 2021, 14:00 – 15:30 CES. .

"If anything works for women, in any country, it is most likely to work for most people. If you want to address the majority of the people who really need you, target women." In this episode of Awake at Night, we meet Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director of �山����Women. Phumzile shares anecdotes about her friendship with Mandela and describes the formative issues behind her leadership of women’s rights and drive for investment in gender equality that culminate in the Generation Equality Forum.

"I understand the people I speak to in my current job, because I've been in their shoes: I've been arbitrarily detained. I've experienced enforced disappearance.” In this episode of Awake at Night, we meet Michelle Bachelet, now �山����High Commissioner for Human Rights. Michelle was the first female President of Chile for the Socialist Party. She speaks of how she and her mother were taken to a clandestine detention centre; of exile in Australia and East Germany; of her motivations to study medicine and return to Chile and why she remains a prisoner of hope. "We may not be all responsible for the past, but we are responsible for the future."

"I could have gone on a Kindertransport to London, where the British were ready to receive 10,000 Jewish children. But I'm the only child [and my mother is a] widow. She said, ‘No, we’re going to stick together’. So it was a matter of trying to find ways to get out of hell. [...] And strangely enough, at that time in 1938, Hitler just wanted the Jews out. But there was no place to go [...] we heard many, many nations saying, ‘We cannot afford to take in so many refugees’." In this episode of Awake at Night, we meet Rabbi Arthur Schneier; a Holocaust survivor and a human rights activist. �山����Secretary-General António Guterres has called him "an inspiration for the world and for the United Nations."

During the COVID-19 crisis information and communication technologies (ICTs) have proved critical to continue our daily work. Nevertheless, the pandemic has also exposed the digital inequalities between and within our countries. This World Telecommunication and Information Society Day (WTISD) is an opportunity to continue digital transformation by promoting strategies on ICT development, smart policies to encourage investments, cooperation, and partnership. Accelerating digital transformation can truly advance the goals and targets of the to leave no one behind.

The content we engage with can influence what we think is important, and even our beliefs and attitudes. However, disinformation, hate speech, and polarized narratives make for confusion about what to trust. While journalists play a crucial role in the production and sharing of quality and reliable information, they are increasingly working under precarious conditions. Under the theme “Information as a Public Good,” this year’s observance calls for strengthening the media’s role, developing information literacy, and reinforcing the transparency of digital platforms.

This year’s World Press Freedom Day serves as a call to affirm the importance of cherishing information as a public good. Strengthening journalism though the production, distribution, and reception of content to advance transparency and empowerment while leaving no one behind is of urgent relevance. The leading minds of the world of journalism, media and technology as well as experts, policy makers, and activists, will come together to affirm information as a public good in the (29 April – 3 May), hosted by UNESCO and the Government of Namibia.

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World Radio Day celebrates radio as part of humanity’s history throughout our society’s developments while adapting its services. As the world changes, so does radio. Thus, during the COVID-19 pandemic, radio made it possible, for example, to ensure continuity of learning, to fight against misinformation, and to promote barrier gestures. "" is, therefore, an ode to the resilience of radio. For this year’s observance,  calls on radio stations to celebrate the 10th anniversary and the more than 110 years of radio highlighting its evolution, innovation, and connection.

This 13 February, join UNESCO and thousands of stations to celebrate World Radio Day. "NEW WORLD, NEW RADIO" is the theme of this 10th edition.

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The annual is being held virtually this year on 8 December [10:00 a.m.-11:45 a.m. EST] and 9 December [10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. EST]. .

While most urban areas are covered by a mobile-broadband network, worrying gaps in internet access persist in rural areas, according to ’s&�Բ�����;. Connectivity gaps in rural areas are particularly pronounced in least developed countries (LDCs), where 17 per cent of the rural population live in areas with no mobile coverage at all, and 19 per cent of the rural population is covered by only a 2G network. 72 per cent of households in urban areas has access to the Internet at home, almost twice as much as in rural areas.

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