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Dear Sir/Madam,
I have pleasure in inviting you
to participate in the Americas Regional Preparatory
Meeting (RPM‑AMS) for the 2010 World
Telecommunication Development Conference, to be held
in Santa Marta, Colombia, from 9 to 11 September
2009 at the kind invitation of the Government of
Colombia.
Regional Preparatory Meetings
are organized in response to Resolution 31 (Rev.
Doha, 2006) in a bid to achieve greater regional
coordination and engage Members in the WTDC-10
process early on. They also seek to identify issues,
at the regional level, that need to be addressed to
foster the development of telecommunications and of
information technologies, taking into account the
expression of pressing needs facing the Member
States and Sector Members of the region.
The RPM-AMS is expected to draw
up recommendations on carefully selected top
priority areas identified as essential for the ICT
development of the countries of the region, within
which Study Group Questions, programmes, projects
and regional initiatives can be identified for
consideration by WTDC‑10. To this end, to facilitate
effective preparations by the Members of the ITU
Telecommunication Development Sector (ITU-D), a very
focused RPM-AMS agenda based on the general
framework provided by the preliminary draft WTDC-10
agenda has been prepared and is found in Annex I.
In order to consolidate the
various proposals submitted in a way that lends
itself to the elaboration of a solid, cohesive and
powerful package consisting of inter-related and
mutually reinforcing components, a template has been
developed and can be found at
www.itu.int/ITU-D/conferences/rpm/2009/AMS/documents/template.html.
In addition to providing a common approach to submit
proposals, the template will also provide a
fast-track to the processing of the input documents
by reducing the reformatting of the contributions.
Contributions not submitted on this template may
therefore result in delays in their processing and
posting. The working documents will be posted on the
ITU-D website as they become available at the same
address.
To enable advance preparations
by delegations and in light of the constraints
derived from the schedule of all activities of the
Development Sector, a deadline has been set for the
submission of proposals and contributions on the
items of the draft agenda to 25 August
2009 at the latest.
Registration will be made
exclusively online at:
http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/conferences/rpm/2009/ams/Registration.html
Practical information relating
to the meeting will shortly be available on that
website.
Subject to the available financial resources and in
order to encourage participation, one fellowship may
be granted to each administration of least developed
countries (LDCs) and countries whose GDP per capita
is less than 2’000 USD. Fellowships may be requested
by completing the appropriate section of the online
registration form. Pre-registration with requests
for fellowship must be submitted no later than
Friday 21 August 2009. Pre-registration
without fellowship requests can be done until
Friday, 4 September 2009.
The ITU regional and area
offices will work closely with the members,
including the regional telecommunication
organizations, in order to facilitate the
consolidation of proposals. They stand ready to
assist you in order to achieve the expected output,
based on priorities and requirements while taking
into account restraints and limitations, in order to
arrive at workable results. With this approach,
Members of the region are likely to derive greater
benefits through the achievements of the very
objectives they have set and priorities they have
identified.
I very much look forward to
your inputs to this process to ensure that the
Action Plan to be prepared by WTDC-10 is an
effective and viable tool to guide our work in the
coming years to meet the needs of countries of the
Americas region based on the top priorities you will
have set.
Yours faithfully,
[Original signed]
Sami Al Basheer Al
Morshid
Director
Distribution:
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Administrations of ITU Member States
of the Americas region
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ITU-D Sector Members of the Americas
region
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United Nations
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Regional telecommunication
organizations
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Intergovernmental organizations
operating satellite systems
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Specialized agencies of the United
Nations
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International Atomic Energy Agency |
