The Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) on 4 May said that countries with a low Gross National Income (GNI) spend on the information and communication services more than the developed ones, and that the Arab region comes in the second rank in terms of the cost of these services.

Beirut, 16 December 2019 (ESCWA)--The region is caught in an inequality trap, argue the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) and the Economic Research Forum (ERF) in their new report titled “Rethinking Inequality in Arab Countries”, which was launched today in Beirut.
 

By the end of 2011, online social network Facebook users reached 481 million, demanding an expansion in software industry, as mentioned in the Information Economy Report 2012 released by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). Entitled “The Software Industry and Developing Countries,” the Report was launched by ESCWA today 28 November 2012, at its Headquarters in Beirut.

ESCWA held a press conference today in cooperation with the UN Information Center in Beirut (UNIC-Beirut), at the UN House to launch the "Information Economy Report 2009" released by the UN Conference on trade and Development (UNCTAD).

Speakers at the conference were Bahaa Elkoussy, UNIC-Beirut Director, Youssef Nusseir, Director Information and Communication Technology Division at ESCWA and Rami Zaatari, Information and Communication Technology Officer, ESCWA.