The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) took its campaign to Silicon Valley, California with the aim of cementing ties with the private sector and promoting the use of state-of-the-art in ICT to bridge the digital divide across the world.

A statement from the ITU, a United Nations body, said its Secretary-General, Hamadoun I. Touré conferred with some of the leading lights of Silicon Valley at a meeting in Mountain View, California.