– ITU-Reporter

A Commitment to Progress

  • ITU/U.N. mandates
  • Mandate creep
  • Best practices
  • Cost recovery, including administrative burdens
  • Waste, incompetence and mismanagement
  • Corruption, fraud and enforcement
  • Conflicts of interest
  • ITAR and EAR – Dual use goods and services, and sanctions
  • Abuse of power or position, malfeasance, misconduct, cronyism
  • Foreign meddling
  • Disinformation and harmful influence campaigns
  • Abuse, threats and violence
  • Competition and anti-trust
  • Digital Identity misuse
Commitment-2-Progress
TWEAK TO ITU practices can align the agency with practices in a majority of organizations in the U.N. system, and could bolster the agency’s independence, an oversight body mandated to act as agent of change across the U.N. system suggested.
CANTONAL AUTHORITIES extended by one year authorization for use of the street between the Montbrillant and Varembé buildings, and the IEC, and extending west through the pedestrian area between the tower building and CICG, as a base for construction, an announcement in the official journal said.
FEDERAL COUNCIL bid to strengthen the anti-money laundering framework in Switzerland aims to boost due diligence standards for certain consultancy activities, to better dig down to the beneficial owners of organizations, and to better prevent circumvention of sanctions under embargo legislation, a press release said.
ITU SEC.-GEN. pulled the plug on precedent for monies to former elected officials that was deemed to be without basis for payment, said the agency’s management oversight board, which provides independent guidance.
ITU FOCUS is on last-mile connectivity to ensure warnings reach at-risk populations in time for informed action, Doreen Bogdan-Martin, the ITU sec.-gen. said.
HIRING DISCRIMINATION case may be very costly for SpaceX, said a former U.S. assistant special prosecutor, who also practiced immigration law.