Date and Venue
21 - 30 October 2008
Emperors Palace, Convention Centre
Johannesburg, South Africa

Regional preparatory meetings
Regional preparatory meetings were organised by regional organizations. In addition ITU held an Americas and African preparatory meeting. To assist with these preparations, in association with one regional preparatory meeting in each region ITU held a Regional Development Forum on bridging the standardization gap between developed and developing countries. The Forums encouraged greater understanding of, and participation in, the work of ITU-T. They explained the status of the current hot topics under discussion in ITU-T, and how to become involved in ITU-T activities in order to champion the interests of each region in the development of international ICT standards. [ Details ]

Side Events during WTSA-08
During WTSA three evening side events were held covering the topics Cybersecurity, ICT Accessibility and ICT and Climate Change. [ Details ]

Side Events Webcast

Conditions for invitation and admission
The conditions for invitation and admission to the World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly are specified in Article 25 of the ITU Convention.

Candidates for Chairmen and Vice-Chairmen of ITU-T SGs and TSAG
In accordance with WTSA Resolution 35 (Montreal 2000), the Director of TSB issued TSB Circular 229 inviting Member States and Sector Members to nominate candidates for Chairmen and Vice-Chairmen of ITU-T Study Groups and the Telecommunication Standardization Advisory Group (TSAG), and the Study Group 3 regional tariff groups for the study period 2009-2012. The newly elected Study Group management teams can be seen here. [ Candidates ]

Global Standards Symposium, 20 October 2008
This was the first WTSA preceded by a Global Standards Symposium (GSS). GSS was a high level event bringing together all major ICT standards makers to discuss bridging the standardization gap and improving collaboration to achieve this objective. [ News | Event details ]

GSS Webcast