Programme Overview 

Conscious of the opportunities that new and affordable telecommunication technologies have brought about, the Forum at ITU TELECOM AFRICA 2004 will focus on the following topics:

1. Creating successful business models

   • New infrastructure financing strategies

   • Case studies of successful business models

   • Attracting local and foreign investment

   • Promoting network diversity

2. Policy challenges

   • Has liberalization gone to far, or not far enough?

   • Is the African market large enough for facilities-based competion?

   • Local loop unbundling, collocation and rights of way

   • Interconnection

   • Licensing

   • Spectrum management

   • Regulatory independence and transparency

   • Promoting universal service

   • Infrastructure sharing

3. Appropriate technologies

   • Is Africa ready for broadband?

   • Do we still need fixed-line networks?

   • Voice over IP: Ban it, implement it or ignore it?

   • Wireless and satellite solutions

   • Third-generation mobile (3G) networks

4. Using ICTs to meet the UN Millennium Development Goals

   • Eradicating poverty

   • Extending access to education

   • Improving the lives of women and girls

   • Tackling urban problems

   • E-government

   • Improving healthcare

   • ICTs and job creation

   • Case studies of ICTs for Development

5. Africa and the world

   • Trade in telecommunications and the WTO

   • New regime in international communications

   • International Internet connectivity

   • Telecommunications development assistance

   • International and inter-regional cooperation

Please note: this is neither a comprehensive nor an exhaustive list and that all contributions focusing on the African telecommunication and ICT market will be considered.

ABSTRACTS RECEIVED AFTER THIS DEADLINE WILL BE AUTOMATICALLY REJECTED.

HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT

• Instructions for WWW submission are available at the following URL

• Requests for assistance on submitting your abstract should be addressed to:
  cfa.africa2004@itu.int

• Authors who are not equipped to submit their abstracts via the WWW may send their contributions

• If you submit your abstract by email the following information is mandatory (otherwise your abstract cannot be accepted).

Author’s name:
Co-author(s):
Address
Company/organization
Telephone number: 
email address
Title of the paper or presentation
Relevant topic (from the five broad areas listed above)
Three keywords (relating to the subject of the abstract)

Please note that there is no submission of abstracts for the Youth Forum.

• AUTHOR SHOULD NOT SUBMIT MORE THAN ONE ABSTRACT

• Authors are requested to submit a 500-word abstract of their proposed paper, or a 500-word description of their proposed tutorial, workshop or demonstration, along with a short professional biography (200 words maximum);

• Companies or institutions are requested to coordinate their submissions of abstracts so that only one copy of each abstract is received by the ITU;

• Contributions must be unpublished and based on original research, developments and approaches;

• Contributions must be submitted in English or French;

• Papers treating overtly commercial or military subjects will be rejected;

• Papers on detailed theory and specific products or company presentations are outside the scope of the event and will be rejected;

• For practical reasons the ITU will correspond only with the principal author according to the abstract form.

HOW YOUR ABSTRACT IS EVALUATED

All abstracts received are submitted for evaluation. The following criteria are used in the evaluation process:

IMPORTANT NOTE:

If, on the basis of your submitted abstract, you are selected to make a contribution to the ITU TELECOM AFRICA 2004 Forum, you may be invited to participate in one of the following roles: Keynote Speaker, Speaker, Panelist, Moderator, Rapporteur or Workshop/Roundtable Participant.

Please note that only an invitation to act as a Keynote Speaker or Speaker will authorize a standard presentation of a full paper.

However, ALL participants will be invited to submit a full-length (5,000-6,000 words) paper in electronic format for publication in the Forum proceedings on the ITU TELECOM website, open to all registered Forum delegates, Forum participants and the press before the Forum on-line and to all participants afterwards.

Sales/product promotion papers will not be accepted.

Material must be original and previously unpublished.

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ITU TELECOM
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Tel. +41 22 730 61 61
Fax: +41 22 730 64 44
E-mail: telecominf@itu.int
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