Development Sector An Overview

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Development SectorAn Overview
Presentation

• Yury Grin, PhD
• Deputy to the BDT DirectorInternational
  Telecommunication Union
• www.itu.int/itu-d/

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ITU in brief

• Leading United Nations Agency for ICTs.
• 191 Member States, 580 Sector Members
• Three sectors
• Radiocommunication
• Standardization
• Development
• ITU TELECOM Events

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ITUs Global Presence
5 regional offices, 8 area offices Europe
coordination at HQ in Geneva, Switzerland
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Europe Special focus on the Central and Eastern
Europe

• Europe 42 countries
• CEE 19 countries including 10 EU members
• Population (total) 125.96M
• Density 81.68 per m2
• GDP per capita 7578 USD
• Basic ICT Statistics
• Total Telephone Subscr. 155.5M
• Fixed lines per 100 28.7
• Mobile per 100 106
• Effective teledencity 99.41
• Note Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria,
  Croatia, Cyprys, Czech Rep., Estonia, Hungary,
  Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Montenegro, Poland,
  Romania, Serbia, Slovak Rep., Slovenia, TFYR
  Macedonia, Turkey

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Seven Main Goals of the Union Under the
Strategic Plan of the Union for 2008-11

• Maintain and extend international cooperation
• Assist in bridging the digital divide and promote
  global connectivity through implementation of
  WSIS goals and objectives
• Widen the Union's membership
• Develop tools to safeguard networks
• Continue to improve efficiency and effectiveness
• Diseminate information and know-how of ICT
• Promote the development of an enabling
  environment

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The ITU Structure
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Telecommunication Development Sector
World Telecommunication Development Conference
2006
2002
1998
2010
Telecommunication Development Advisory Group
(TDAG)
Study Groups
BDT
BDT
BUREAU
BUREAU
Telecommunication Development Sector (ITU-D)
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ITU Development Sector (ITU-D)
Mission promoter catalyst for ICT / Telecom
development

• Strengthen cooperation between ITU Members
• Foster enabling environment that promotes
  ICT/telecom development
• Identify projects, promote investment and P/P
  partnerships.

• Support implementation of global, regional
  initiatives
• Undertake economic, financial, technical studies
  on ICT issues
• Assist developing countries in building capacity
  and disseminate information and know-how

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Setting Direction of the BDTActivities Doha
Conference

• Activities
• Statistics and information on telecommunications/I
  CT
• Partnerships and promotion
• Special initiatives
• Private Sector
• Gender
• Young people and children
• Indigenous people and communities
• People with disabilities
• Regional initiatives
• Africa / Americas / Arab Region / Asia-Pacific /
  CIS
• WSIS Implementation
• WSIS Action Line C2 Facilitation
• WSIS Action Line C6 Facilitation
• WSIS Action Lines Co-facilitation
• WSIS Stocktaking etc.

• Six Programmes
• Regulatory Reform
• Information and communication infrastructure and
  technology development
• E-strategies and ICT applications
• Economics and finance including costs and
  tariffs
• Human capacity building
• Least developed countries and small island
  developing states, and emergency
  telecommunications

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BDT Structure
Notes Dashed line - - - - coordination of the
BDT activities RO Regional Offices AO Area
Offices
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BDT Structure
Notes Dashed line - - - - coordination of the
BDT activities RO Regional Offices AO Area
Offices
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ITU-D Your Partner for ICT Development

• ITU-D is a catalyst for multi-stakeholder
  partnerships
• Mobilize human, technical and financial resources
  
• Neutral broker between government and industry
• Executing agency for project implementation and
  expert assistance to countries

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Enabling Environment

• Objective
• Establish enabling environment for ICT investment
  
• through attractive policy/regulatory frameworks
• Actions
• Support regional harmonization efforts
• Guidelines, tool kits, best practices,
  information sharing
• Global Symposium for Regulators (GSR) and Global
  Industry Leaders Forum (GILF)
• Bring together senior policy-makers, regulators
  industry

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Infrastructure/Access

• Objective
• Expand access to ICTs in underserved
• communities
• Actions
• Assist developing countries plan, build, operate,
  upgrade, manage ICT networks and services
• Regional and rural connectivity projects
• Assistance for transition to NGN, Digital
  Broadcasting
• Community ICT access telecentres

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Capacity Building

• Objective
• Help developing countries, transition economies,
  and LDCs build a ICT trained workforce
• Actions
• Internet Training Centres for computer/network
  training
• Centres of Excellence and e-learning to train
  managers for NGN transition, spectrum management,
  cybersecurity, regulatory reform etc.

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Cybersecurity

• Objective
• Build confidence and security in the use of ICT
• Actions
• Assistance to countries Model legislation, Spam,
  Critical Information Infrastructure Protection,
  Regional cooperation
• Stimulating collaboration Forum for
  International Cooperation (GCA HLEG)
• Public resources Cybersecurity Gateway

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E-Applications and Services

• Objective
• Promote and implement e-applications and services
  in developing countries
• Actions
• Provide technical expertise to countries for
  projects in e-health, e-education, e-government
  etc.

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Emergency Telecommunications Saving lives

• Objective
• Support disaster prevention, mitigation and
  relief using ICTs
• Actions
• Infrastructure development, policy/regulatory
  reform, ICT deployment for response, network
  reconstruction rehabilitation

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Special Initiatives

• Objective
• Ensure that all groups benefit from ICTs
• Actions
• Efforts to assist targeted groups women, youth,
  indigenous and persons with disabilities
• Examples
• ICT scholarships for youth from developing
  countries/LDCs
• Workshops, tool kits for policy-makers, awareness
  raising

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Statistics and Market Information
New ITU Global View Map

• Reliable stats, trends, market situation
• Track WSIS progress
• Showcased in ICT Eye portal

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Regional Initiatives

• Objective
• Meet specific needs identified by member states
  in each region
• Actions
• Undertake small and large scale projects
• Led by regional offices, supported by Geneva HQ
• FILL IN Example regional initiatives in your
  region

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Connect the World

• Summits to mobilize resources in each region
• Leaders from industry, dev banks, governments,
  int/regional organizations
• Projects to realize common goals
• Connect Africa was 1st Summit 55 Billion in
  commitments for ICT development by 2012
• Connect CIS 2009, Americas 2010, Arab States
  2011, Asia-Pacific 2012

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Wireless Broadband Initiative
Objective Expand broadband access in
underserved areas

• Outcomes
• Develop and deploy wireless networks
• Guarantee capacity for schools, hospitals
• Train local experts and build human capacity
• Develop ICT Applications e-health, e-education,
  e-government

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Connecting Children Empowering the Next
Generation

• Leverage Wireless Broadband Partnership
  capacity for public use
• Campaign to secure funding/partners to provide
  low cost laptops for school children
• Partnership with One Laptop Per Child, Intel
  others active in the field

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Study Groups
ITU-D Study Group 1 Telecommunication development
strategies and policies
ITU-D Study Group 2Development and management of
telecommunication services and networks

Others ITU-t and ITU-r Study GroupsGlobal
Initiatives or Focus Groupse.g. NGN-GSI,
FG-IPTV, FG-IDM, etc.

• Collaborative working methods ordered along set
  of questions reflecting evolution of the
  information and communication sector

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ITU-D Study Group 1Telecommunication development
strategies and policiesQuestions under study

• Regulatory impact of next-generation networks on
  interconnection
• Regulatory policies on universal access to
  broadband services
• Regulation for licensing and authorization of
  converging services
• Tariff policies, tariff models and methods of
  determining the costs of services on national
  telecommunication networks, including
  next-generation networks
• Domestic enforcement of telecommunication laws,
  rules and regulations by national
  telecommunications regulatory authorities
• Implementation of IP telephony in developing
  countries
• Access to telecommunication services for people
  with disabilities
• Impact of telecommunication development on the
  creation of employment
• Securing information and communication networks
  Best practices for developing a culture of
  cybersecurity

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ITU-D Study Group 2Development and management of
telecommunication services and networksQuestions
under study

• Identification of study topics in the ITU-T and
  ITU-R study groups that are of particular
  interest to developing countries
• Telecommunications for rural and remote areas
• Examination of terrestrial digital sound and
  television broadcasting technologies and systems,
  including cost-benefit analyses, interoperability
  of digital terrestrial systems with existing
  analogue networks and methods of migration from
  analogue terrestrial techniques to digital
  techniques
• Telecommunications for e-health
• Progress on activities for e-services/applications
  in the world

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ITU-D Study Group 2 (cont d)

• Implementation aspects of IMT-2000 and
  information-sharing on systems beyond IMT-2000
  for developing countries
• Strategy for migration from existing networks to
  next-generation networks for developing
  countries
• Examination of access technologies for broadband
  telecommunications
• Utilization of ICT for disaster management and
  active and passive space-based sensing systems as
  they apply to disaster prediction, detection and
  mitigation
• The unique telecommunication/ICT needs of small
  island developing states (SIDS)
• Resolution 9 (Rev. Doha, 2006) Participation of
  countries, particularly developing countries, in
  spectrum management

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Partner with ITU-D

• Enjoy branding and visibility opportunities
• through successful high-profile partnerships
• Support your Corporate Social Responsibility
• and long term market development objectives
• Leverage your expertise and services to help
  implement ICT projects in developing countries
• Work with governments and other industry players
  towards shared goals for development

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ITU Sector Membership

• What benefits? What costs? How to join?

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General Benefits of ITU Membership

• ITUs unique capacity to bring together
  representatives from competing companies and
  governments of all ideological persuasions
• Sharing a wealth of experience and creative ideas
• Establish partnerships between private and public
  sectors
• Access to ITUs vast range of publications, as
  well as restricted documentation/information and
  statistics

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Membership Categories
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ITU Sector Member

• An ITU Sector Member fully participates in the
  work of corresponding ITU Sector Study Groups, or
  Working Groups thereof, in the Sectors Regional
  and World Telecommunication Conferences, Advisory
  Group and other relevant workshops, seminars and
  meetings.
• An interested entity or organization may join ITU
  as a Sector Member. There are 3 Sectors
• Development (ITU-D)
• Radiocommunication (ITU-R)
• Standardization (ITU-T)

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Benefits of being an ITU Sector Member

• Influence the evolution of global
  telecommunication networks
• Do you have a message to convey?
• Do you need to influence the direction of
  global/regional development or standardization
  projects?
• Do you have existing projects and/or products
  that could benefit from globalization?

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Benefits of being an ITU Sector Member

• Increase awareness of your business priorities
  amongst operators, service providers, suppliers,
  regulators and governments
• Membership of ITU Sectors is a means to actively
  take part in the Sectors work pertinent to your
  business and thus make sure your companys goals
  and policies are taken into account on the
  development of projects and on the definition of
  standards within your business sphere.
• Your contact details and the name of your Chief
  Executive Officer (CEO) will be published in the
  ITU Global Directory.

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Benefits of being an ITU Sector Member

• Networking/Making contacts
• ITU Sectors provide a platform for meeting
  experts from all over the world, learning of
  their entities plans and objectives and for
  sharing experience and information.

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Benefits of being an ITU Sector Member

• ITU Sector Members can
• Fully participate in the Sectors Advisory Group
  to the ITU Elected Official
• Participate in all Study Group meetings and
  electronic discussion groups
• Present their views by submitting written
  contributions
• Participate in the approval of technical or
  development projects and recommendations

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ITU Sector Member Fees

• ITU Sector Members may choose their annual
  contribution in a range from 1/16 to 40 units.
  The effective amount of the contributory unit is
  63600 Swiss francs. This fixes the minimum
  contribution for an ITU Sector Member as follows
• ITU-D CHF 7,950 (1/8 unit) CHF 3,975
  (1/16 unit for developing countries
  only)
• ITU-R CHF 31,800 (1/2 unit)
• ITU-T CHF 31,800 (1/2 unit)

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ITU Associates

• An interested entity or organization may join an
  ITU Sector as an Associate and be entitled to
  take part in the work of a selected single Study
  Group.
• Associates may have access to documentation
  required for their work and may serve as
  Rapporteur or Editor.

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ITU Associate Fees

• The annual contribution for an ITU Associate is
• ITU-D CHF 3,975.00 CHF 1,987.75 (for
  developing countries only)
• ITU-R CHF 10,600.00
• ITU-T CHF 10,600.00

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Conclusion

• ITU membership is global and diversified
• Sector Members play a key role in ITU dynamics
• Regional participation is an ITU priority
• Invaluable opportunities exist to share
  experiences, creative ideas, knowledge of
  business opportunities and to seek partnerships
• ITU Sector membership fees are competitive
• What about new members from your country?

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Thank You!
Yury Grin, PhD Deputy to the BDT
DirectorInternational Telecommunication
Union www.itu.int/itu-d/