Visual Fusion Helps the United Nations Track Telecom Development
by Sarah Wicker
May 15, 2008
IDV Solutions is working with Microsoft and the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), a leading United Nations agency for information and communication technologies, to create a global view of the telecommunications network. ITU Global View is an online visual composite application to track and help accelerate implementation of the goals of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Africa. It provides high-level decision makers with a unified view of the current telecommunications infrastructure, related projects, and supplemental demographic data.
ITU Global View uses IDV's Visual Fusion Suite® and Microsoft's Virtual Earth. Visual Fusion Server® integrates a broad range of new and existing data sources on global information and communication technologies (ICT)—visualizing telephone lines, mobile and broadband subscribers and internet users. Thematic shading indicates the subscriber/user ratio for each technology.
ITU Global View also visualizes GSM cell phone coverage, optical fiber networks, population density, GDP per capita data, WSIS Stocktaking Projects, training centers, and African Union Regions throughout Africa, providing the ability to compare them and to analyze trends, progress, and future development.
The Global View visualization is hosted and maintained by ITU. It is open to all stakeholders and allows users to check status, identify gaps and avoid overlap in collaborative efforts to achieve the WSIS goals. This application will be demonstrated at the ITU Telecom Africa 2008 conference in Cairo, Egypt on May 12 — 15, 2008. It was unveiled at the Connect Africa Summit in Kigali on October 29, 2007.
Want to see more? You can view a video overview and demonstration of the ITU Global View application on our website at http://www.idvsolutions.com/demos_videos.aspx.
by Sarah Wicker
May 15, 2008
IDV Solutions is working with Microsoft and the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), a leading United Nations agency for information and communication technologies, to create a global view of the telecommunications network. ITU Global View is an online visual composite application to track and help accelerate implementation of the goals of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Africa. It provides high-level decision makers with a unified view of the current telecommunications infrastructure, related projects, and supplemental demographic data.
ITU Global View uses IDV's Visual Fusion Suite® and Microsoft's Virtual Earth. Visual Fusion Server® integrates a broad range of new and existing data sources on global information and communication technologies (ICT)—visualizing telephone lines, mobile and broadband subscribers and internet users. Thematic shading indicates the subscriber/user ratio for each technology.
ITU Global View also visualizes GSM cell phone coverage, optical fiber networks, population density, GDP per capita data, WSIS Stocktaking Projects, training centers, and African Union Regions throughout Africa, providing the ability to compare them and to analyze trends, progress, and future development.
The Global View visualization is hosted and maintained by ITU. It is open to all stakeholders and allows users to check status, identify gaps and avoid overlap in collaborative efforts to achieve the WSIS goals. This application will be demonstrated at the ITU Telecom Africa 2008 conference in Cairo, Egypt on May 12 — 15, 2008. It was unveiled at the Connect Africa Summit in Kigali on October 29, 2007.
Want to see more? You can view a video overview and demonstration of the ITU Global View application on our website at http://www.idvsolutions.com/demos_videos.aspx.
