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ITU asks schoolchildren around the world: How can technology make the world a better place?
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ITU asks schoolchildren around the world: How can technology make the world a better place? -
10,000 young people invited to join the global debate at ITU Telecom World
2011 and imagine the innovations that could make a real difference
Geneva, 18 October 2011 - ITU is calling on schoolchildren across the world to join a global metaconference at ITU Telecom World 2011 (24-27 October, Geneva, Switzerland) on how technology can be harnessed to solve socio-economic problems and accelerate progress toward the Millennium Development Goals.
Students and teachers are encouraged to sign up their schools or classes and send in their ideas, prototypes and innovations in areas where technology could be harnessed to help.
Students are asked to consider burning questions such as how can we close the gap between rich and poor? How can we make disabled people's lives easier? Or how can we improve education for all? Ideas and prototypes will be shown to the more than 5,000 influential delegates expected to attend the event, including Heads of State/Heads of Government, industry CEOs, technology gurus, digital innovators and delegations from students' home countries.
For full text see:
http://www.itu.int/net/pressoffice/press_releases/2011/41.aspx
