George Mason Technology & Cyber Security Blog

The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperative – Telecommunications Working Group (APEC TEL) – approved an extension of ICT Applications for People with Special Needs project at the APEC TEL 47 meeting held in Bali, Indonesia from April 22nd to 27th. The project is co-led by Professor Toshio Obi of Waseda University and James Kang, the CIO [...]

As an academic member of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the United Nations’ specialized agency for information and communication technologies, George Mason students have the opportunity to enter the ITU Young Innovators Competition. ITU is looking for the next generation of social technopreneurs—young people aged between 18 and 26 with an inspirational information and communication [...]

George Mason has become the third U.S. university to be an International Telecommunications Union Academic member joining 190 member states, over 700 private sector members and 45 academic members worldwide. Mason faculty and researchers will be part of and contribute to ITU standards and study groups including for example on cybersecurity, mobiles, future networks, multimedia, M2M, [...]