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At the recent WTO Public Forum, Tomas Lamanauskas, the deputy secretary general of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), said digitization needs to be built on sound infrastructure. At the same time, in the process of digitization, we need to pay attention to the the digital divide, the billions of people with and without Internet access. For her part, Golestan (Sally) Radwan, the UN Environment Programme chief digital officer, said with digital tools to anticipate natural disasters,