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Capacity Building for Countering Misappropriation of Telephone Numbers in Pacific Island Countries

Project No 9RAS17056
Title Capacity Building for Countering Misappropriation of Telephone Numbers in Pacific Island Countries
Description The World Telecommunications Development Conference 2014 (WTDC-14) Resolution 78, “Capacity building for countering misappropriation of Recommendation ITU-T E.164 telephone numbers” calls for BDT actions to support human capacity building and activities aimed at addressing number misappropriation.  This project focuses on the number misappropriation issue in the Pacific sub-region in particular and is aimed to build human capacity in the Pacific Island Countries facing the issue in order to counter the number misappropriation.
Area of Action Capacity Building
Status Implemented
Time Frame From 1/12/2016 To 31/3/2018
Implementing Agency International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
Cooperation Agency The Commonwealth of Australia, represented by the Department of Communication and the Arts (DoCA)
Financial Scale (CHF) 100'000 - 500'000
Achievements

The project produced two (2) reports:
Report A) Assessment report (review of the
ICB4PAC report and ITU 2016 Global Survey)
Report B) Best practices and guidelines for the Pacific region



A Workshop on Number Misappropriation
and Fraud was organized in collaboration with PITA in Nadi, Fiji.


At least 80% of ITU Pacific
Member Countries participated