improve customer service — by identifying the specific needs
of the Union's membership and other customers, establishing priorities, and
providing the highest quality of service possible with available resources;
innovate — by continuing to develop new activities, products
and services under the supervision of the Member States and Sector Members
and in accordance with their agreed needs;
strengthen the Union's financial foundations — by
determining and applying appropriate funding mechanisms for ITU activities,
products and services (e.g. assessed contribution based on free choice
of contributory unit, voluntary contribution, partial or full cost recovery,
revenue generation), together with transparent budgetary measures;
enhance participation by Sector Members — by implementing
the recommendations deriving from Resolution 15 (Kyoto, 1994) and
Resolution 39 (Kyoto, 1994) as quickly and fully as possible, and by
actively marketing ITU membership to all entities and organizations with a
potential interest in participating actively in the work of the Union;
establish partnerships — by concluding a range of formal and
informal cooperation agreements with other intergovernmental organizations
and with other organizations at the national and regional levels, including
non-governmental organizations (NGOs), in cases where such cooperation would
further the purposes of the Union based upon the identification of specific
subjects for cooperation;
maintain solidarity — between the ITU's Member States and
Sector Members in partnership in pursuit of the purposes of the Union;
inform — by sharing and disseminating information related to
the development of economically efficient public telecommunications;
promote the principle and implementation of a competitive
telecommunication environment — by encouraging flexible regulatory
systems that provide for a variety of telecommunication services;
produce Recommendations in timely response to market demand
— by streamlining development and approval procedures by each Sector, as
appropriate.
