ITU TELECOM WORLD 2019: Francis Gurry, Director General, WIPO
Channel: ITU
Date: 2019-09-09

At ITU Telecom World 2019, ITU caught up with Francis Gurry, Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) about what makes connectivity meaningful - the theme of this year’s conference. Providing his perspective on meaningful connectivity which he sees as being fundamental to innovation, he talks about how connectivity between people is essential to the generation of ideas and taking them forward and what ITU does in ensuring connectivity around the world he sees as the fundamental basis of all innovation. He pertinently provides two examples of where we need responsible innovation: artificial intelligence and hereditary genomic editing, the basis of which is digitization: “We don’t want innovation just for innovation sake, we want innovation that is going to improve the quality of our lives.”