• Editorial: Smart regulation for a broadband world
  Dr Hamadoun I. Touré, ITU Secretary-General

• ITU at a glance

  • ICT industry backs green standards

  • Kigali broadband meeting highlights role of youth and debates strategies for getting Africa online

• The broadband debate
  The need for speed?

• Global symposium for regulators
  Message from Brahima Sanou, Director of the ITU Telecommunication Development Bureau

• What should be in a national broadband plan?
  

• Drawing up a broadband plan
  The decision tree

• Argentina connected
  Emergency telecommunications in the Americas
  Brahima Sanou, Director of the ITU Telecommunication Development Bureau

• Hong Kong China
  Some valuable pointers

• Mobile banking

• Intellectual property rights in today’s digital economy

• Open access regulation in the digital economy

  • Tanzania

  • Singapore

  • The ACE project

• WSIS stocktaking
  Colombia
  Computadores para Educar “A road to knowledge”

• The HIPCAR project
  Harmonization of ICT policies and legislation across the Caribbean

• A snapshot of ITU’s assistance to the Americas

  • Brazil’s ANATEL to develop a new cost model for telecommunication services through a consortium

  • Capacity-building activities through the Centre of Excellence for the Americas region

  • Support to the telecommunications regulatory authority in Peru

  • Training Brazilian telecommunication professionals

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