ITU REGIONAL OFFICE FOR AFRICA

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ITU REGIONAL OFFICE FOR AFRICA

• OVERVIEW AND ACTIVITIES

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TOPICS

• Presentation of the Regional office for Africa
• Main activities
• ITU Projects in Africa
• Activities related to ITU-T
• Actions undertaken with ITU-T

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PRESENTATION OF AFRICA REGION
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MAIN ACTIVITIES - ISAP (Istanbul Action Plan) A
four-year (2003-2006) strategic and working Plan

• Section II Actions
• A. - ISAP Programmes
• Prog-1 Regulatory Reform
• Prog-2 Technologies and Telecommunication / ICT
  network development
• Prog-3 e-strategies and e-services/applications
• Prog-4 Economics and Finance, including costs
  and tariffs,
• Prog-5 Human capacity building
• Prog-6 Special Programme for LDCs

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ISAP (Istanbul Action Plan) A four-year
(2003-2006) strategic and working Plan

• B. - Activities
• Activity 1 Statistics and information on
  telecommunication/ICTs
• Activity 2 Partnership and promotion
• C. Special initiatives

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ITU Projects in Africa

• AFRITEL Project Infrastructure
• SRII (Southern Region Information
  Infrastructure). ITU/SADC-SATCC
• INTELCOM-II . ITU/ECOWAS
• CMTL S.A.
• Seminar and workshop on technical matters

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ITU Projects in Africa (Cntd)

• INDAFTEL Project Industrialization
• Centre of Excellence Project (CoE)
• Capacity building. ESMT and AFRALTI
• Regulation Project
• UEMOA/ ECOWAS
• CEMAC
• Eastern Africa

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ITU Projects in Africa (Cntd)

• PILOT Projects
• MCT (Mali, Uganda, Tanzania, Benin, Cap Vert)
• Telemedicine (Senegal, Mozambique Guinea, Kenya,
  Cameroon, Ethiopia)
• E-Commerce (Burkina, Cameroon, Côte dIvoire,
  Mali, Senegal, South Africa, Senegal)
• MCT for Refugees (Tanzania)

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NEW Project

• ITU SUPPORT TO NEPAD
• Background Res 35 of WTDC-02 and Res PLEN/5 PP-
  02
• Project phase 1 establish a Project Document
  detailing the investment needed to achieve the
  short and medium terms objectives relative to
  telecom and ICTs
• Project phase 2 Assist the African countries in
  Mobilizing resources and implementing concrete
  projects leading to the achievement of the
  objectives

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Activities related to ITU-T

• Promotion of more widespread use of new
  technical specifications and standards aiming at
  the development and expansion of Telecom/ICT
  Network and related services
• Provision of information on ITU standards,
  recommendations, procedures and guidelines for
  the introduction of new technologies and new
  services in the telecommunication/ICTs networks

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Actions undertaken within the Region

• Study Group 12 meeting, October 2001, Dakar,
  Senegal.
• workshop on the Quality of Service and
  Transmission from the users point of view, in
  the utilization of the new network system,
  October 2001, Dakar, Senegal.

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Actions undertaken with ITU-T contd

• ITU-T seminar on trends in the telecommunication
  industry, July 2002, Kasane, Botswana
• Seminar on the impact of Electromagnetic Field
  emissions on humans and the environment,
  September 2003, Kampala, Uganda

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Participation to ITU-T Activites

• Through the delegation of a Member State
• As a ITU-T sector member
• The participation of Africa region nedd to be
  enhanced
• The Regional and area offices are at your
  disposal

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