An international summit of leaders from government, industry and international organizations agreed on a series of steps to better protect, maintain and improve the "resilience" of a vast network of submarine telecommunications cables that carry virtually all the world's data traffic.
The International Submarine Cable Resilience Summit hosted for two days in Abuja, Nigeria concluded with a declaration on Thursday by the U.N.-led International Advisory Body on Submarine Cable Resilience calling for more international cooperation and technical advancements.
