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Podcast: Inside Geneva
Episode: What is the ITU and why does it matter?
Description: Send us Fan MailIn this episode, host Imogen Foulkes explores the most important UN agency most of us have never heard of.  Malcolm Johnson, deputy secretary general, ITU: ‘Telephony, radio and tv broadcasting , satellite communications, the internet, they wouldn’t have developed.’  So what has the International Telecommunications Union ever done for us?  Fiona Alexander, IT expert: ‘If you’re a beneficiary of any modern day communications network, you have benefitted from something that the ITU has done.’  And why are Russia and the United States competing to lead it?  ...