Multi-robot systems (MRS) offer significant benefits, including enhanced efficiency, collaboration, operational flexibility, and fault tolerance. Researchers aim to create autonomous swarms of terrestrial, aerial, and underwater devices capable of complex, collaborative missions.

However, these systems face challenges in reliability, scalability, communication orchestration, middleware design, interoperability, and standardization. This talk, presented by Enrico Natalizio (Université de Lorraine), explores the advantages, challenges, and future perspectives of networked robotics and communication systems, charting interdisciplinary paths to realize MRS's full potential.

Network virtualization, also known as network slicing, allows multiple isolated logical networks to coexist on a single physical infrastructure without performance or security interference. Initially envisioned to evolve Internet architecture, it later provided bandwidth guarantees for cloud applications in data centers.

Now a pillar of 5G and beyond mobile networks, network slicing delivers differentiated services with stringent requirements. Despite significant research over two decades, its end-to-end deployment remains unrealized. This talk covered its genesis, evolution, key challenges, solutions, and the outlook for 5G+ network slicing.

Edge computing reduces data transfer costs and enables real-time, private data processing by relocating computation to local devices. However, realizing its full potential requires advanced data analysis and content generation, specifically generative Artificial Intelligence (AI).

This talk investigated the challenges of deploying generative AI at the edge. It aimed to enhance privacy and efficiently use network and computational resources. The discussion considered edge environment limitations and current solutions for optimizing AI models on resource-limited devices, addressing efficient distributed learning for applications like Large Language Models.

Speaker: Albert Y. Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia.

This talk introduced VisionX, a research area at the intersection of learning, reasoning, and communication. It explored VisionX's key enablers, mathematical tools, and contrasted it with current research efforts.

Recent results in semantics-native communication and emergent communication protocols were presented. The discussion highlighted the critical importance of transmitting semantic information, rather than redundant or useless raw data, to enable effective task completion.

Speaker: Mehdi Bennis, University of Oulu, Finland

Food brands and supermarkets can normalize nature-positive food by rethinking ingredients and production methods. Rob Cameron, Global Head of ESG Engagement at Nestle, discussed this at the Big Food Redesign Challenge launch.

The Ellen MacArthur Foundation, an international charity, champions the circular economy. This design-driven approach eliminates waste and pollution, circulates products and materials, and regenerates nature.

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The Giga Connectivity Forum 2024 will convene at ITU Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, on July 9. This inaugural event gathers Giga's country partners and stakeholders to strategize for universal school connectivity by 2030.

Giga is a global initiative dedicated to connecting every school to the internet, empowering young people with information, opportunity, and choice. Achieving this universal connectivity and closing the digital divide demands global cooperation, strong leadership, and innovative solutions in finance and technology.

Regardless of terminology, the concerns that environmental justice seeks to address have relevance across societies. Certain communities and groups across the world continue to face disproportionate exposure to environmental hazards. The benefits and costs of environmental policies are also often unequally distributed.
Find out more about OECD work on environmental justice:
https://www.oecd.org/en/topics/sub-issues/social-and-economic-impacts-of-environmental-policies/environmental-justice.html

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0:08 What are the challenges that environmental justice seeks to address?
1:35 Gloria Amparo Rodríguez, Magistrate, Special Jurisdiction for Peace, Colombia
1:52 What efforts are being undertaken to address environmental injustice?
1:56 Peter Lukey, Chief Director, Environment Knowledge and Information, Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, South Africa
2:18 Anahera Nin, Member of OECD Youthwise, New Zealand
2:32 Manisha Anantharaman, Assistant Professor, Sciences Po, France
2:47 Karim Marshall, Senior Adviser, the United States Environmental Protection Agency, United States
3:12 What can countries learn from one another and how could the OECD support these efforts?
3:22 David Schlosberg, Erkko Visiting Professor, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, Finland
Director, Sydney Environment Institute, University of Sydney, Australia
3:42 Stephen White, Economist | European Commission, Chair | OECD Working Party on Integrating Environmental and Economic Policies
4:02 Shardul Agrawala, Head, Environment and Economy Integration Division,
Environment Directorate, OECD

Vidéo en français: https://youtu.be/8NFEH6P9ZDU

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Kerstin Jüttner, Public Affairs Officer for International Government Relations at ITU/UN and Rohde & Schwarz, was interviewed at the Global Symposium for Regulators 2024 (GSR-24).

The symposium took place in Kampala, Uganda, from July 1-4, 2024. For further details, visit the official GSR-24 website: www.itu.int/gsr24.

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Patrick Holden, Founder and CEO of Sustainable Food Trust, addressed the Big Food Redesign Challenge, emphasizing how farming in harmony with nature can deliver. The Ellen MacArthur Foundation, an international charity, promotes a circular economy that eliminates waste and pollution, circulates products, and regenerates nature through design.

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Get ready for the new season of The Circular Economy Show! Over five episodes, we'll delve into the foundational ideas that inspired the circular economy. Explore schools of thought like Biomimicry, Cradle to Cradle, Regenerative Design, Industrial Symbiosis, and the Performance Economy. Discover what the circular economy adopted from these influences, their key differences, and meet organizations applying these principles today.

The new season launches Tuesday, July 16th. Subscribe to The Circular Economy Show now to catch every episode.

An interview was conducted with Omeife, Africa's first humanoid robot, and her Nigerian creator, Dr. Chuks Ekwuewe. Maximillian Jacobson-Gonzalez from ITU led the discussion.

This interview took place at the Global Symposium for Regulators 2024 (GSR-24) in Kampala, Uganda, from July 1-4, 2024. For more details, please visit: www.itu.int/gsr24. #ITUGSR24

The South Sudan Robotics Club demonstrated two of their robots and participated in an interview at the Global Symposium for Regulators 2024 (GSR-24). This event took place in Kampala, Uganda, from 1-4 July 2024.

For more details, visit the official website: http://www.itu.int/gsr24. Follow updates using #ITUGSR24.

An interview was conducted with Petros Galides, EMERG Chair and Deputy Commissioner, Office of the Commissioner of Electronic Communications and Postal Regulation, Cyprus.

This took place at the Global Symposium for Regulators 2024 (GSR-24) in Kampala, Uganda, from July 1-4, 2024.

For further information, please visit itu.int/gsr24. #ITUGSR24

Piotr Dmochowski-Lipski, Executive Secretary of the European Telecommunications Satellite Organisation (EUTELSAT IGO) and BBCom Commissioner, was interviewed at the Global Symposium for Regulators 2024 (GSR-24). This event took place in Kampala, Uganda, from July 1-4, 2024.

For further information, please visit the GSR-24 website.

An interview with Ervin Williams, CEO of the National Telecommunications Regulatory Commission, Saint Kitts and Nevis, took place at the Global Symposium for Regulators 2024 (GSR-24) in Kampala, Uganda, from July 1-4, 2024.

For further information, please visit the official GSR-24 website: http://www.itu.int/gsr24. Follow the event using #ITUGSR24.

Prof. Konstantinos Masselos, President of the Hellenic Telecommunications and Post Commission (EETT), Greece, was interviewed at the Global Symposium for Regulators 2024 (GSR-24).

The symposium was held in Kampala, Uganda, from 1-4 July 2024. For further information, please visit: http://www.itu.int/gsr24. Follow #ITUGSR24.

Oli Bird, Ofcom UK and CEPT Co-President, was interviewed at the Global Symposium for Regulators 2024 (GSR-24), held in Kampala, Uganda, from July 1-4, 2024.

For more details on GSR-24, please visit the official website: http://www.itu.int/gsr24. Follow the event using #ITUGSR.

Lele Modise, MTN Group's Chief Legal and Regulatory Affairs Officer, was interviewed at the Global Symposium for Regulators 2024 (GSR-24) in Kampala, Uganda, from July 1-4, 2024.

For further information, please visit the official GSR-24 website: http://www.itu.int/gsr24. Follow the event using #ITUGSR.

Apollo Knights, Director of the National Telecommunications Regulatory Commission, was interviewed at the Global Symposium for Regulators 2024 (GSR-24). This event occurred in Kampala, Uganda, from July 1-4, 2024.

For further information on GSR-24, please visit the official website: http://www.itu.int/gsr24. The symposium was identified by the hashtag #ITUGSR.

Doreen Bogdan-Martin, ITU Secretary-General, was interviewed at the Global Symposium for Regulators 2024 (GSR-24). This event took place in Kampala, Uganda, from July 1-4, 2024.

For further information, please visit the official website: ITU GSR 2024. Follow #ITUGSR for updates.