A quick round-up of tech-focused stories recently featured on the ITU News blog.In this episode:•Being back together in Barcelona at the 2021 Mobile World Congress;•How ITU’s Digital Transformation Centres Initiative is ensuring that no one is left offline;•Expanding financial inclusion through electronic payments;•How digital finance may have softened the impact of COVID;•Leading to achieve universal connectivity;•Artificial intelligence expanding the scope of climate science;•And… how satellites connect the unconnected by providing broadband connectivity worldwide.Writer and presenter: Georgea Chronis -MarksEditor-in-chief: Neil MacDonaldProducer and editor: Maximillian Jacobson - Gonzalez

A round-up of tech-focused stories recently featured on the ITU News blog.In this episode•How digital transformation can become sustainable; •Technologies helping protect the world’s oceans; •Namibia’s policy to tackle e-waste; •Iceland’s drive for next-generation cybersecurity; •Digital ID expanding financial access across Latin America; •How regulations can help close the world’s digital divide. •And…Mauritius – the small island nation that just deployed its first satellite into low-Earth orbit.

A round-up of tech-focused stories recently featured on the ITU News blog.In this episode· Women’s voices – and a campaign to amplify them all year long;· How melon farmers bear fruit using digital technologies;· Building trust— for everyone – in digital financial services;· How a professional footballer uses AI to monitor his heart health;· And... Space – not just the final frontier, but an 18th Sustainable Development Goal?