Hacker News with Generative AI: International Organizations

WHO: Member States conclude negotiations on draft pandemic agreement (who.int)
After more than three years of intensive negotiations, WHO Member States took a major step forward in efforts to make the world safer from pandemics, by forging a draft agreement for consideration at the upcoming World Health Assembly in May.

Health, International Organizations, Pandemics, Public Health

4 points by Anon84 10 days ago | 0 comments

Europe Takes Another Whack at Homegrown Compute Engines (nextplatform.com)
With RISC-V International, the body controlling the RISC-V instruction set, located in Switzerland for the past five years, RISC-V now has just as much right to call itself indigenous to Europe as does Arm Ltd, the British chip company that finds itself on the other side of the English Channel after the Brexit break up and that is still around 90 percent owned by Japanese conglomerate SoftBank.

Europe, RISC-V, Semiconductors, Technology, International Organizations

4 points by rbanffy 46 days ago | 0 comments

International Bank Note Society (theibns.org)
The International Bank Note Society (IBNS) announces that its voting membership has for the first time selected the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank to receive its annual prestigious “Bank Note of the Year Award” for 2023.

Awards, Banking, Currency, International Organizations

30 points by gone35 121 days ago | 7 comments

Giga Is ITU and UNICEF's School Connectivity Project (ieee.org)
Connecting every school to the Internet is a monumental challenge that until recently no one had dared to tackle—in part because not all countries can even pin down the locations of all their schools. But a new joint initiative from the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and UNICEF seeks to fill that gap.

Education, Internet, Technology, International Organizations

18 points by rbanffy 144 days ago | 3 comments

Global Solar Council announces 2 terawatt milestone achieved for solar (globalsolarcouncil.org)
November 8, London – The Global Solar Council leads the worldwide solar industry today in the celebration of achieving 2 TW of installed solar PV capacity against the backdrop of a Donald Trump presidency in the U.S. and a pivotal COP29 slated to begin next week in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Renewable Energy, Solar Energy, Climate Change, International Organizations

45 points by mooreds 149 days ago | 26 comments

The Republic of Palau Becomes ITU's 194th Member State (itu.int:443)
Cutting tech-related emissions to net zero depends on tackling a complex value chain, according to the latest report from ITU and the World Benchmarking Alliance.

International Organizations, Telecommunications, Climate Change, Sustainability, Technology

28 points by zinekeller 206 days ago | 18 comments

Global Anti-Corruption Consortium (occrp.org)

Corruption, Journalism, International Organizations

13 points by Bluestein 251 days ago | 2 comments