Quinn Sutton is an American business professional. He is the Executive Director of the Digital Alliance Foundation and is known for his work in the private technology education sector and his work on a variety of UN-related and humanitarian projects. In 2007, he co-founded the Digital Alliance Foundation which provides capacity-building

Information and Communications Technologies Information and communications technology (ICT) is an extensional term for information technology (IT) that stresses the role of unified communications and the integration of telecommunications (telephone lines and wireless signals) and computer ...

(ICT) skills to marginalized populations and serves as a High-Level Advisor for the Global Alliance for Information and Communication Technologies and Development (UNGAID).

International work

United Nations Economic Commission for Africa The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA or ECA; , CEA) was established in 1958 by the United Nations Economic and Social Council to encourage economic cooperation among its member states (the nations of the Africa, African contin ...

Committee on Development Information, Fifth Session (CODI V), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. May, 2007. * “Bridging the Digital Divide: Successful Innovations in Private-Public Sector Partnerships”,

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a Private university, private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Established in 1861, MIT has played a significant role in the development of many areas of moder ...

(MIT), Learning International Networks Consortium, Her Majesty Queen Rania Al-Abdullah of Jordan – Patron, Amman, Jordan and Dubai, UAE, October, 2007. * Panel on Volunteerism in the Digital Age, Global Knowledge Partnership Foundation, Third Global Knowledge Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 2007. *Third Joint Facilitation Meeting for Action Lines C2 (Information and Communication Infrastructure), C6 (Enabling Environment) and C4 (Capacity Building),

World Summit on the Information Society The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) was a two-phase United Nations-sponsored summit on information, communication and, in broad terms, the information society that took place in 2003 in Geneva and in 2005 in Tunis. WSIS Forums hav ...

International Telecommunication Union The International Telecommunication Union (ITU)In the other common languages of the ITU: * * is a list of specialized agencies of the United Nations, specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for many matters related to information ...

, Geneva, Switzerland, May, 2008. * UNGAID Annual Global Forum, Monterrey, Mexico, September, 2009. * IT Training Project at School for Leprosy-affected Children, Chennai, India, November, 2011. * Panel: ICT and New Strategic Alliances to Achieve the Millennium Goals,

Infopoverty Infopoverty is the name given to the Programme and the World Conference started in 2001, in the ambit of the United Nations, aimed to fight poverty towards the application of Information and communications technology, ICT, Information and Communica ...

World Conference, OCCAM, UN Headquarters, New York, March, 2012. * Panel: The Impact of New Technologies and ICTs on Sustainable Development, United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (RIO+20), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. * United Nations-sponsored Education Policy Paper: “Framework on Education for All in the Digital Age”, 2009.

References

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