The United Nation’s International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and Microsoft have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at the ‘Connect Africa Summit’ outlining how they will work together to build a safe, inclusive and networked information society.During the signing ceremony in Kigali, Rwanda, the two partners also launched an ITU Global View, a virtual earth-based online platform to track and help accelerate the implementation of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) goals in Africa.
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