The ITU (ITU in Spanish) is the specialized organization of the UN for Information and Communication Technologies. Made up of more than 190 countries and 700 private sector entities and academic institutions. This supranational organization is committed to the objective of facilitating and improving connection to the entire world population. The ITU-UN is a living and dynamic organism in constant growth and scope.
The ITU knows the importance of ICTs within the framework of knowledge society in which we live, both for developing regions and for the population with fewer opportunities to access the internet. The fight against the digital divide is the flag of the ITU.
Born along with the telegraph in 1865, it became part of the UN in 1947 and from then on it identified the potential that sending messages and information at a distance held for human development. On this path of innovation and advancement, operational problems arose, such as international regulations or economic costs of each new technological wave.
The ITU-UN seeks strategic cooperation and understanding between different interlocutors that facilitate the creation of a more interconnected world, accelerating the new educational, social and economic opportunities that ICTs provide.
The ITU works within the framework of three areas of activities, developing these areas through conferences, meetings and also training actions:
Training and technicalizing engineers and students in their final university years is one of the many programs that the ITU has. In this case, Mainjobs Group has been the winner of a tender to digitize content for six months and form part of the ITU study programs.
Currently, there is a clear deficit of experts in this subject, which is why it is a job opportunity for many young people, something that motivates us even more to improve ourselves.
More than 4.2 billion people do not have access to the Internet, equivalent to 601% of the world's population, according to a report on the World Bank digital divide.
