UNODC eLearning Platform Offers Free Courses to Tackle Crime and Corruption
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) – which fights against illicit drugs, crime in all its forms, and terrorism – is offering its eLearning courses to law…
New Covid-19 Law Lab to Provide Legal Information for Covid-19 Response
The Covid-19 Law Lab initiative gathers and shares legal documents from over 190 countries across the world to help states establish and implement strong legal frameworks to manage the pandemic.…
How to Prevent Corruption in Covid Funds
The UN Office on Drugs & Crime (UNODC) observes that governments around the world have responded to the Covid-19 pandemic with huge fiscal stimuli and emergency rescue packages designed to…
Artificial Intelligence to Combat Climate Change: UN Report
From cutting emissions in cities to natural disaster risk reduction, smart water management, and precise climate monitoring, frontier technologies in fields such as artificial intelligence (AI), 5G, and robotics demonstrate…
New ITU Platform to Protect Telecom Networks in COVID-19 Crisis
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has launched a platform to ensure that telecommunication services keep running during the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis. This new ITU platform will provide countries struggling…
ITU Reschedules 2 Tech Conferences in Response to COVID-19
Given the global coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and its partners have decided to postpone the dates for the upcoming World Information Society (WSIS) Forum (originally in…