ITU seeks $100 billion to close digital divide

The ITU marked this year’s World Telecommunication and Information Society Day (WTISD) with the launch of an ambitious new fundraising effort.
The UN’s telco agency wants to increase the targeted value of pledges to connect what it refers to as the world’s least developed countries (LDCs) from $30 billion to $100 billion by 2026 – a not insignificant amount of money.
The fundraising is managed by Partner2Connect, a UN multi-agency programme to connect the unconnected. Whi