A quick round-up of tech-focused stories recently featured on the ITU News blog.

In this episode:

• Being back together in Barcelona at the 2021 Mobile World Congress;

• How ITU’s Digital Transformation Centres Initiative is ensuring that no one is left offline;

• Expanding financial inclusion through electronic payments;

• How digital finance may have softened the impact of COVID;

• Leading to achieve universal connectivity;

• Artificial intelligence expanding the scope of climate science;

• And… how satellites connect the unconnected by providing broadband connectivity worldwide.

Writer and presenter: Georgea Chronis -Marks

Editor-in-chief: Neil MacDonald

Producer and editor: Maximillian Jacobson - Gonzalez

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