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Green Standards Week set for Madrid, 16-20 September 2013
Focus on advancing smart sustainable cities
Geneva, 6 August 2013 –
The Third ITU Green Standards Week is set to tackle an agenda featuring ‘Smart
Sustainable Cities’, e-waste, mobile device eco-rating schemes, and climate
monitoring and disaster warning using submarine communications networks.
The 2013 event is being organized by ITU and hosted by Telefónica in Madrid,
Spain, 16-20 September 2013, with partners comprising the Basel Convention,
CEDARE, UNEP, UNESCO-IOC, the United Nations University, and WMO along with
sponsors such as Huawei and Fujitsu.
The event’s agenda includes a High Level Segment on Smart Sustainable Cities,
the second meeting of the
ITU-T Focus Group on Smart Sustainable Cities,
17 September, as well as the prize-giving for the Telefónica-supported
3rd
ITU Green ICT Application Challenge,
18 September.
Green Standards Week is free of charge and open to all interested parties, also
offering online ‘remote participation’.
Find more information, including practical information on hotels and visas and
details of how to register as an onsite or online participant, here.
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What:
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Third ITU Green Standards Week
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When:
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16-20 September 2013
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Where:
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Teléfonica Headquarters,
Madrid, Spain
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Who:
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Representatives of government, the private
sector, international organizations,
non-governmental organizations, standards
development organizations, and ICT- and
environment-focused industry associations and
forums.
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Programme:
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16 September 2013:
ITU, UNEP, UNU, CEDARE Forum on
e-Waste
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17 September 2013
(morning): Forum on Greening
Mobile Devices: Building
Eco-Rating Schemes
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17 September 2013
(afternoon): 2nd Meeting of the
Focus Group on Smart Sustainable
Cities
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18 September 2013:
High Level Segment on Smart
Sustainable Cities
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19-20 September 2013
(morning): 3rd
ITU/WMO/UNESCO-IOC Workshop on
Propelling a Pilot Project on
Green Cables
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20 September 2013
(afternoon): Closed Meeting of
the
ITU/WMO/UNESCO-IOC Joint Task
Force
on Submarine Communications
Networks For Climate Monitoring
and Disaster Warning
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Media registration to attend this event is essential. Journalists are requested
to confirm their attendance to pressevent@itu.int.
Photos from event will be available for download from ITU’s Flickr site at: www.flickr.com/photos/itupictures/
For more
information, please contact:
Sanjay Acharya
Chief, Media Relations & Public
Information, ITU
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Toby Johnson
Senior Communications Officer
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and news packages at
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