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Pedro Oliva Brunet, Senior Telecommunication Expert, Office of Regulations and Standards, Ministry of Computer Science and Communications, Cuba
Pedro Oliva es Graduado en la Universidad de la Habana como Ingeniero en
Telecomunicaciones desde 1970, ha pasado cursos internacionales de
especialización en temas de telecomunicaciones organizados por la UIT y
otros impartidos por las Administraciones de Francia y Japón, tiene más de
50 años de experiencia en la operación y desarrollo de las
telecomunicaciones de Cuba, en actividades relacionadas con la operación, el
desarrollo y la regulación de redes y servicios. En la Asamblea Mundial de
Normalización del 2008 fue designado Vicepresidente del Grupo de Estudios de
la Comisión de Estudio 3 para América Latina y el Caribe, y ha representado
a su Administración como delegado, Jefe de Delegación, o Conferencista en
múltiples reuniones de Comisiones de Estudio, Talleres, y Asambleas, Fórums
y Simposios Mundiales organizados por la UIT. |
Dr. Mauro Flórez Calderón, President CITIC - Ecuador
Eng. Mauro Flórez Calderón, Ph.D., MSc,
Eng. has participated in projects of
national and international scale as:
Interconnection networks in multi-user
and multi-operator environment, in
Colombia for the Ministry of
Communications and Colciencias; and the
pilot project to test WiMax technology
before being acquired funded by Empresa
de Telecomunicaciones de Bogota (ETB) as
operator of the service, the equipment
suppliers were Airspan and the
Investigation Research Group GITUN. He
led the design of inspection protocols
for telecommunications companies from
Colombia supervised by the
Superintendencia de Servicios Públicos
Domiciliarios that is the Department for
Telecommunications - SSPD in the areas
of Networking, Traffic, Security,
Pricing, Customer service, prepaid
service and Call Center. Flórez
participated as an inspector in the
areas of interconnection and traffic.
Currently directs the Project on
Strategies and Policies of convergence
and Satelital Research Program. Has been
consultant for the project on number
portability for the National
Telecommunication Secretary of Ecuador,
and consultant for the
telecommunications project of Power
Lines for Riobamba Electric Company SA.
Nowadays Directs project ICTs and
Climate Change.
Ph.D in Telecommunications Engineering,
Ph.D (c) in Political Science and
International Relations, Master in
Sciences in Political Science, Media
Specialist, Electronic Engineer, with a
Master degree in Business Studies,
Negotiation Techniques and Conflict
Resolution, author and co-author of
several books and articles, Teaching
researcher at the National University of
Colombia, expert of the
Telecommunications Regulatory Commission
of Colombia, Founder and President CITIC
Consultant. |
Héctor Carril, Vice-Chairman ITU-T SG5 and Chairman
ITU-T SG5 Regional Group for Latin America and Caribbean
Héctor Mario Carril, Ingeniero en telecomunicaciones egresado de la
Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina. Héctor Carril es
Vicepresidente de la Comisión de Estudio 5, Medio Ambiente y Cambio
Climático de la UIT-T, y presidente del Grupo Regional para América
Latina y el Caribe de dicha Comisión; Presidente alterno del Comité de
Telecomunicaciones (CCPI) de la Comisión Interamericana de
Telecomunicaciones de la OEA y Relator sobre Aspectos Técnicos y
Regulatorios Relativos a los efectos de las Emisiones Electromagnéticas
no Ionizantes del Comité de Radiocomunicaciones de la CITEL. Asesor de
la Secretaría de Comunicaciones de Argentina. |
Luis Enrique Conde del Oso, Cuban Telecommunications
Company SA., (ETECSA), Cuba
Luis Enrique, graduated in the year 1982 as Engineer in
Telecommunications. With 28 years of experience in the
Telecommunications, he began as Professor of Superior Level in the
Military Technical Institute where he acted as Assisting Professor of
Superior Level in the Class of Radiotecnia. Starting from the year 1986
began to work in the Company of Telecommunications of City Havana which
in the year 1993 are integrated to ETECSA where he acted as specialist
of Network Planning and at the moment he is Boss of Group of the
Department of Strategic Plans in the Vice-presidency of Technology and
Development, having an active holding in the introduction of New
Services of Added value, Design of the Intelligent Network, Design of
the strategies of traffic of the Network of Telecommunications toward
the New Generation Network as well as in the implementation of the
Network Metro Ethernet in ETECSA.
It has directed topics of investigations, such as the introduction of
the Power Line Communications with the realization of 4 Pilots of this
technology in Cuba, and other related with the Introduction of the
Service of IPTV in Cuba in which carried out 2 important pilots that
included designs of services and development of a Platform of IPTV.
It has participated in a total of 28 courses, of technical training of
telecommunications and graduate degree with companies like Alcatel and
Ericsson and Huawei, besides possessing a Certification like Expert in
the system PLC. It possesses a total of 31 publications in National and
International Technical Magazines and participating in 11 International
Events as Presenter, like Informática 2003, Informática 2005,
Informática 2007and Informática 2009, with a grateful work of
technological Innovation with 23 works rewarded in Cuba. He defended in
2010 their Theses of Master in Sciences on the Topic of the Validation
of the Profile of Quality of the NGN in the Polytechnic Superior
Institute José Antonio Echeverría (ISPJAE). |
Eduardo Leyva Corzo, Office of Regulations and Standards, Ministry of Computer Science and Communications, Cuba
He is specialist Superior of High Level of Ministry Informatics and
Communications. He possesses more than 40 dedicated years of experience the
Computer science's development and the Telecommunications of their country.
He has participated in important projects related with national and
international new services of informatics and telecommunications. He has
collaborated during more than 30 years with International Organizations
related with this sphere of activities. |
 Richard Hill,
Secretary, CWG-WCIT12, ITU-TSB
Richard is currently Counsellor for Study Groups 2 and 3 at the
International Telecommunications Union, that is technical secretary for the
ITU groups dealing with operational aspects of service provision, networks
and performance, including numbering issues (for example, assignment of
international country codes) and charging and accounting matters.
Prior to joining ITU, Richard was Department Head, IT Infrastructure
Delivery and Support, at Orange Communications (a GSM operator), responsible
for delivering and maintaining the real-time, fail-safe computing
infrastructure for the company to support over 300 online agents and related
applications such as billing. Richard was responsible for IT Operations, IT
Help Desk (support for 1500 PCs), IT Security, Network, Unix, NT, Oracle DB,
Tuxedo, Telephony, and Internet and Intranet services.
He previously was the IT Manager at the University of Geneva, responsible
for the network, central systems, over 6000 work-stations and PCs, user
support, administrative applications, library infrastructure, and
audio-visual services.
Prior to that, he worked at Hewlett-Packard's European Headquarters in
Geneva, Switzerland. At HP, he had been responsible for world-wide mobile
communication strategies and plans; for delivering GSM services throughout
Europe; for specifying, procuring, and deploying voice and electronic mail
services in Europe; for developing and implementing HP's EDI program in
Europe; for operating the IT center supporting operations in the Middle East
and Africa; and for providing economic and sales forecasts to HP top
management.
From September 1991 to June 1993, Richard was the Western European
Rapporteur for EDIFACT, responsible for the organization of the EDI
standardization efforts in Europe and for liaisons with other regions
working on EDIFACT. He is past chair of EDIFICE, the European Electronics
Industry Forum for EDI, and was editor of X.435, the Pedi protocol for EDI
and X.400.
Prior to joining HP, he worked as a Research Statistician for the A.C.
Nielsen company in Europe, a large marketing research company, and as a
systems designer and consultant for a small software company specializing
Boston, Mass. that specialized in applications for managing financial
portfolios. Prior to that, Richard was Systems Programmer and later
Applications Development Manager for econometrics systems developed at
M.I.T. and N.B.E.R. (TROLL project). Richard has taught numerous courses and
seminars as part of his work and at universities in the US and Europe.
Richard is a member of the American Arbitration Association, American
Association for the Advancement of Science, Association for Computing
Machinery, Society for Computers and Law, and the Swiss Arbitration
Association.
Richard holds a Ph.D. in Statistics from Harvard University and a B.S. in
Mathematics from M.I.T. Prior to his studies in the U.S.A., he obtained the
Maturita' from the Liceo Scientifico A. Righi in Rome, Italy.
He has published papers on mediation, arbitration, and computer-related
intellectual property issues and the standard reference book to X.435. |
 Richard Labelle,
ITU Consultant, Canada
Mr. Labelle has 29 years experience promoting the use of ICTs for
development and has traveled to over 57 developing countries. He
recently completed a scoping study on ICTs and climate change entitled
“ICTs for e-Environment” for ITU and worked for the UNFCCC as the
manager of the iSeeT@theClimateChangeKiosk at COP15. He is developing a
training program on ICTs for abating climate change and promoting green
growth for the UN United Nations Asian and Pacific Training Centre for
Information and Communication Technology for Development (APCICT) in
Korea and is completing two reports for ITU-D on the role of mobile
technologies for abating climate change and the abatement potential of
ICTs in the built environment. |
Marcos A Perez Garcia, Cuban Telecommunications Company SA, (Etecsa),
Cuba
Educational Background
Mr Marcos Perez is graduated in Electrical Engineer in Havana University
and received the degree of Master of Science in the Faculty of
Technology, Victoria University of Manchester, England.
Professional Experience
Mr. Perez had been involved in the development of: digital PABX for the
Cuban Electronic Industry and with the Unify Development of Digital
Switching within the Economic Mutual Assistance Council in the former
eastern European socialist block. Later on behalf of his country he was
in charge in Nikola Tesla Zagreb Croatia and ALCATEL Vienna Austria of
the technical aspects for the technology transfer of digital switching.
Later moved to Mexico where was in charge for projects dealing with
Paging Systems and Personal Communication (PCS). Was also leader of a
GPS radio localization project.
Since 1997 works for the Cuban Telecommunication Enterprise (ETECSA)
where he is in charge of the development of the National Numbering Plan
and the Routing Plan. His duties also contemplate Network Planning. On
behalf of ETECSA he worked in Telecom Italy for the development of the
national GSM system. Currently is leading the ENUM project for the Cuban
telecom network.
Since WTSA 2004 is an active participant in ITU-T activities and in the
WTSA 2008 was elected to the position of Vice-Chairman of the SG 2. In
2010 was also appointed as the SG2 representative in the JCA-ICT&CC.
He was a lecturer on telecommunication in Havana University. Has
participated in International Standard Telecommunication Meeting in
Mexico, Poland, Brazil and Switzerland. Had written books and papers on
telecom and signal processing issues. |
 Wilfredo López Rodríguez, Director, Office of Regulations and Standards, Ministry of Computer Science and Communications, Cuba
Nació el 9 de febrero de 1951 en Ciudad de la Habana, Cuba. Es casado y
tiene 3 hijos.
Realizó los estudios preuniversitarios en el Instituto Especial "Raúl
Cepero Bonilla".
En 1972 ingresa en la Universidad Técnica de La Habana "José Antonio
Echeverría"; graduándose en 1977 de Ingeniero Eléctrico en la
Especialidad de Control Automático.
En 1977 trabaja como Profesor de la Universidad en el Departamento de
Controles Automático, hasta el año 1983,
Impartió diferentes asignaturas de su especialidad,
Ha sido Tutor de trabajos de grado y miembro de tribunal de defensa.
Recibe la Categoría de Profesor Adjunto en 1986.
En 1986 trabaja en el Consejo de Ministro atendiendo diferentes áreas de
desarrollo económico del País hasta el año 2004 en que es nombrado
Director de Regulaciones y Normas del Ministerio de Informática y
Comunicaciones y miembro de su Consejo de Dirección.
Ha participado en la elaboración de numerosas normas regulatorias en el
sector de las Telecomunicaciones
Ha cursado estudios de postgrado en Contabilidad y Finanzas y Diplomado
en Técnicas de Dirección, así como diferentes cursos cortos en diversas
temáticas, con buenos resultados.
Ha participado en diferentes eventos y misiones en el exterior
representando al País y al Ministerio de informática y Comunicaciones. |
Eng. Zoila Inés Ramos Rodríguez, Director CITIC - Ecuador
Eng. Zoila Inés Ramos Rodríguez, Ph. D(c),
Esp. has directed large-scale projects
nationally and internationally as
interconnection networks in multi-user
and multi-operator environment in
Colombia for the Ministry of
Communications and Colciencias. Was
directed the pilot project to test WiMax
technology before being acquired by
Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Bogota
ETB operator of the service; the
equipment supplier were Airspan and
Research Group GITUN. Eng. Zoila Ramos
directed the inspection on the
telecommunications companies in Colombia
monitored by the Superintendencia de
Servicios Públicos Domiciliarios. Was
delegate as an inspector for the
Department of Telecommunications - SSPD
in the areas of Networking, Traffic,
Security and Taxation to
telecommunications companies monitored
by the SSPD.
Currently manages projects for Power
Lines Telecommunications - PLT.
“Inclusion of Telecommunication and ICT
in Strengthening National Identity and
the Decline of the Digital Gap (FINE)”.
Ph.D (c) in Telecommunication
Engineering, Radio-communication
Specialist, Specialist in Law of
Telecommunications, Electronics
Engineer, with a degree in Management, a
student of law in Ecuador. Author and
coauthor of several books and articles,
Teacher Researcher of National
University of Colombia, supported by the
Expert Committee on Telecommunications
Regulatory Colombia (CRT), CITIC Founder
and Principal Consultant. |
Paolo Rosa, Head of Workshops and Promotion Division, (ITU/TSB)
Mr Rosa received his degree in physics in 1974 in Rome, Italy, and joined
the R&D branch of the Italian Ministry of Communication working on optical
fibers transmission networks, in national and international standards and
leading quality control inspection teams for international telecommunication
projects.
He was head of national delegations for standardization and research studies
performed in IEC, ITU, ETSI, CECC, COST and represented the Italian Ministry
of Communications in various international institutions including the
European Commission task force for the G7 pilot projects on the Information
Society.
Paolo was appointed as expert and senior advisor by the Italian Foreign
Office, the UNDP and ITU for telecommunication projects in various
developing countries worldwide.
In 1997 he joined the ITU-T secretariat in Geneva as Counselor responsible
for Study Groups 6 (Outside plant), and SG 15 (Optical and other transport
networks) and representing ITU in various events. Since November 2004 he is
the Head of the Workshops and Promotion Division of the ITU Standardization
Sector, organizing events and promoting new ITU-T activities for resolutions
concerning developing countries, conformance and interoperability,
universities.
He is author of several papers published in international technical
magazines and speaker and lecturer in universities, international
conferences, seminars and workshops. |
Andrea Saks
Convener, Joint Coordination Activity on Accessibility and Human Factors (JCA-AHF), ITU
Andrea Saks is a known advocate for ICTs for persons with disabilities.
Her father, Andrew Saks, together with James C. Marsters and Robert
Weitbrecht were pioneers of deaf telecommunications using surplus
teletypewriters and modems – the precursors of textphones and today’s
real-time text messaging. She grew in a family of two deaf parents and
assisted them from an early age as their interface with the hearing world:
getting doctors’ appointments, arranging guests’ visits, etc.
She took that role to the next level when she relocated from the US to the
UK in 1972 to promote the use of textphones internationally. She was able to
successfully lobby the British Government Post Office (the then-regulator of
telecommunications) to allow the first transatlantic textphone conversation
(1975) and to grant a license for connection of text telephones on the
regular telephone network.
Her first involvement with ITU standardization activity started in 1991 and
has ever since increased in scope. Self-funded, she currently attends many
ITU-T study group and focus group meetings promoting the inclusion of
accessibility functionality in systems being standardized by ITU, such as
multimedia conferencing, cable, IPTV and NGN. After the recent creation of
ITU-D Q20/1 on accessibility matters by WTDC-06, she also started attending
that group and now performs as a bridge between the two sectors on the
issue.
She has been a key person in the creation of all accessibility events in
ITU, and currently is the convener of the recently formed joint coordination
activity on accessibility and human factors, as well as the coordinator of
the Internet Governance Forum’s Dynamic Coalition on Accessibility and
Disability.
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Sergio Scarabino,
Head, ITU Area Office, Chile
Es Licenciado en Relaciones Internacionales recibido en la Universidad de
Belgrano, Argentina; y Especialista en Gestión de las Telecomunicaciones,
titulado conjuntamente por el Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires y la
Universidad de San Andrés.
Previo a su ingreso a la UIT, trabajó para la Administración Argentina en el
Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, Comercio Internacional y Culto
(1993-1996) y en la Comisión Nacional de Comunicaciones (1997-2008) en la
que llegó a desempeñarse como Gerente de Relaciones Internacionales.
A lo largo de su carrera profesional representó a la República Argentina en
negociaciones en materia de telecomunicaciones tanto a nivel bilateral como
en ámbitos multilaterales (UIT, OMC, CITEL, ITSO, IMSO, MERCOSUR)
Ocupó el cargo de Presidente Alterno del Comité Consultivo Permanente I de
la CITEL y presidió asimismo el Grupo de Trabajo de ese organismo que
preparó y defendió las propuestas regionales en la Conferencia Mundial de
Radiocomunicaciones del año 2007.
Desde el mes de enero de 2009 está a cargo de la Oficina de Área de la UIT
en Santiago de Chile.
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Cynthia D. Waddell
Executive
Director, International Center for Disability
Resources on the Internet (ICDRI)
Cynthia Waddell is the Executive Director and Law,
Policy and Technology Subject Matter Expert for the
International Center for Disability Resources on the
Internet (ICDRI). She also leads ICDRI’s
Accessibility Oversight Consulting Services for
clients in government, academia and the business
community to further ICDRI’s mission to remove
electronic and information technology barriers and
promote equal opportunity for all.
A former Americans with Disabilities Act Compliance
Officer for the City of San Jose, she is the author
of the first accessible web design standard in the
United States in 1995 that led to recognition as a
best practice by the federal government and
participated in the legislation and implementation
of the US Electronic and Information Technology
Accessibility Standards (Section 508).
Cynthia Waddell serves as an accessibility expert
for the U.S. Department of State International
Telecommunications Advisory Committee and acted as
the built environment and accessible technology
expert for the United Nations Ad Hoc Committee
during the drafting of the Convention on the Rights
of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD).
She is co-author of the 2010 Monograph on the
Accessibility Provisions of the UNCRPD for the UN
UNCRPD Secretariat; co-author and co-editor of the
ITU & G3ict eAccessibility Toolkit for Policy Makers
for assisting countries in their implementation of
the UNCRPD; and author of ITU best practices papers. |
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