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ITU Regional Development Forum 2008, Day 1, 26 May 2008 |
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0930 — 1000 |
OPENING REMARKS: Welcome and Keynote addresses
Master of Ceremonies:
Godwin Avenorgbo (Retired Director of Radio,
Ghana Broadcasting Corporation)
Chairman of the Forum:
Jude Arthur (Chairman of the Board of the
National Communications Authority (NCA), Ghana)
- Opening remarks: Malcolm Johnson (Director of TSB)
- Welcome address : Akossi Akossi
(Secretary General of the African
Telecommunications Union (ATU))
- Keynote address: "Ghana vision on ICT":
H.E. Dr Benjamin Aggrey Ntim, (Minister of
Communications, Ghana)
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1000 — 1030 |
COFFEE BREAK |
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1030 — 1230 |
OPENING SESSION: Assessing needs and
opportunities: standardization and ICT development
in Africa
Session Chairman: Akossi Akossi
(Secretary General of the African
Telecommunications Union (ATU))
Objectives: This session will assess the impact of
ICT standardization on African countries and will
present ICT development experiences and
opportunities in Africa. |
Linkage between ICT standardization and
development: The case of developing countries
Eng. Thomas A. Senaji (Telecom Kenya)
It is widely acknowledged that availability and
access to reliable and affordable ICT services
positively impacts economic development of a
population through contribution to GDP; this in turn
results in an improvement in human wellbeing. The
developing countries are still struggling to pull
themselves out of ‘digital poverty’.
With an ever increasing pace of globalization, and
the advent of knowledge economy, it is imperative
that all citizens of the ‘global village’ access
online information to enable them participate
meaningfully in the information society. However,
this participation is curtailed by inadequate access
to reliable and affordable ICTs. This exclusion is
characterized by existence of a huge development gap
not only between the developed world and the
developing world, but also between the urban and
rural areas within the same developing country/ies.
This exclusion may be attributed to high cost of ICT
services (also reflected in affordability) partly
due to standardization ‘causes’ since the diffusion
of ICTs is driven by standards compliant systems
that exhibit seamless quality of services, low OPEX
and efficient application of CAPEX in acquiring
these systems; plus the support of enabling policy
and regulatory infrastructure.
Therefore, to be able to take advantage of the
wealth of online resources for and to participate in
the accompanying economic development, international
standards compliant systems and institutions are not
an option but an imperative The existence of systems
and institutions with limited compatibility with
state of the art systems and accepted practice in
the DCs/LDCs limits the extent to which these
countries can access global ICT wealth.
This paper examines standardization through six (6)
lenses namely (1) Policy and Regulatory
harmonization (2) Technical compatibility of
systems(3) Quality of service (4) Human resource
development (5) Supporting infrastructure and (6)
Promotion of standards compliant access to ICT. An
attempt is made at highlighting the linkages between
standardization and access to ICTs; between access
to ICT and human development; with suggestions on
how to bridge the existing standardization gap.
Suffice it to say, it is important for LDCs and DCs
to actively participate in ITU and other
international recognized standardization bodies and
work not only to ensure that their input is taken on
board when standards are prepared and adopted, but
also to be abreast with best-practice in all ICT
areas of interest among other interventions. |
New business models and partnerships for
productivity, competitiveness and innovation
gains
Massimo Migliuolo (Vice President
Emerging Markets Theatre, Cisco) |
One Laptop Per Child and “Connect the
World”
John Visser (on behalf of Bilel
Jamoussi, CTO, Strategic Standards, Nortel)
Today’s children will become tomorrow’s decision
makers. Educating children is a powerful catalyst
for improving lives. OLPC is an initiative aimed at
overcoming many of the constraints on educating
children in the world’s less developed areas, and
through this providing a string leverage point for
improving the lives of everyone in the community.
This presentation outlines key aspects of the OLPC’s
design and how it is intended to be used. Nortel’s
role in OLPC is touched upon, but more
fundamentally, OLPC is seen as a proof point of
hyperconnectivity. Several example deployment
scenarios are provided, illustrating how the OLPC
enables local connection to the world wide telecoms
infrastructure to bring the world’s learning and
knowledge resources to the local environment. |
E-Readiness in Southern African Development
Community
John Saidi Kimbe (Manager,Technology
& Policy, South Africa Telecommunications
Association (SATA))
The presentation covers the Background of SATA and
its Membership including the Cooperating Partners.
The presentation covers the “political arm” of the
e-Readiness Initiatives in the SADC Region which
includes (i) the signing by the SADC Heads of State
and Government of the ICT Declaration that took
place in August 2001 in Malawi giving priority to
bridging the Digital Divide in all its membership;
(ii) the setting up by the SADC Heads of State and
Government of a TASK Force charged with researching
e-Readiness of member states; and (iii) the adoption
by the SADC Heads of State and Government of the
policy guidelines on “Making ICT a Priority in
Turning SADC into Information-Based Economy”.
The presentation further highlights the e-Readiness
Factors, ICT Components and ICT Resources. The
presentation provides ICT as part of solution to
economic and social problems that empowers people to
help themselves. It states that countries are facing
threats of being left further behind if they do not
address the growing digital divide between and
within countries. It is now seen that International
Leaders, Donors and Lending Agencies require
recipients to integrate ICT into their development
and aid programmes as a condition.
Some concerns are also raised in the presentations
that most ICT financial resources are diverted into
assisting the hungry, war-affected and others
affected by natural calamities. Some resources are
shifted into diseases.
Despite all these shifts, the presenter believes
that resources are within Africa (solutions, people,
competition, etc). What is required is ICT Awareness
in terms of its benefits, creation of positive
attitude towards its adoption, affordability and of
course PC penetration without forgetting the “local
content”. This will put Africa “beyond the e-mail”. |
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1230 — 1400 |
LUNCH |
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1400 — 1530 |
SESSION 1: Overview of ITU activities: how to
participate in ITU standardization work and address
global connectivity
Session Chairman: John Visser (ITU-T SG 19
Chairman)
Objectives: This session will provide an overview of
ITU standardization activities relevant to African
countries. It will highlight decisions taken by the
2006 Plenipotentiary Conference concerning bridging
the standardization gap (Resolution 123) and the
activities carried out by the ITU-T and ITU-R
Sectors. |
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ITU-T Overview: Bridging the standardization
gap: Tim Kelly (ITU/TSB) |
ITU-D Overview: Doha Action Plan (WTDC-06),
addressing the digital divide
Chali Tumelo
(ITU/BDT)
Resulting from the convergence of communications
sectors, there is a growing realization that
national communications networks and infrastructure,
through the use of ICTs, are much more than a mere
platform for telephony – It is now a fundamental
underpinning layer of networked economies and
Information Societies.
These networks are therefore supposed to be well
understood in order to be well developed and well
managed. Networks are changing from narrowband type
to broadband, from discrete to converged, front
circuit switched to packet switched and so on.
With these new opportunities come new threats. The
emergence of the Information Society risks widening
the existing digital divide if the “have nots” can
not follow.
It is to be noted that the outcomes and conclusions
of the World Telecommunication Development
Conference (WTDC-06) held in Qatar, Doha, 7-15 March
2006 (Doha Action Plan) are a comprehensive package
to enabling developing countries promote equitable
and sustainable development of ICT networks and
services. In addition to Regional Initiatives, the
package consists of six programmes to be implemented
by the ITU-BDT over four years. |
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An African challenge to bridge the digital
divide: Seydoux B. Bassavé
(ITU/BDT) |
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ITU-R Overview: ITU-R activities relevant to
African countries: Fabio Leite (ITU/BR) |
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1530 — 1545 |
COFFEE BREAK |
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1545 — 1700 |
SESSION 2 : African development issues and ICT
implementation
Session Chairman: Patrick Masambu (Executive
Director, Uganda Communications Commission (UCC))
Objectives : This session will focus on ITU-D
activities to help ICT development and
implementation in developing countries |
ICT applications and network development
Ali Drissa Badiel (ITU/BDT)
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) devote the
right to any human being to have access to
communication means. That’s why the ITU, as a UN
specialized agency in the ICT field, adopted some
initiatives to contribute to the achievement of
those MDGs. Are part of them the Regional
Initiatives (RIs) for Africa rising from the World
Telecommunication Development Conference (WTDC) of
Doha in 2006 and the Connect Africa Summit held in
October 2007 in Kigali.
As a matter of fact, Africa is one of the continents
where ICT penetration rates are among the lowest; a
proof is made by Internetworldstats.com on its
website which shows an Internet penetration rate of
5.3% for Africa in March 2008, as the lowest of the
world. This reminds every stakeholder the duty to
strive to bring about networks and services
development on the continent to catch-up; that’s why
the ITU Regional Initiatives for Africa give
priority to those issues, by devoting three of them
(out of five) to networks and services development.
In recall, those three initiatives are:
- Development of broadband infrastructure and
realization of inter regional connectivity;
- ICT applications;
- Introduction of new digital broadcasting
technologies.
In addition to that, during the Kigali Summit, the
participants took commitments with a global
financial amount of more than 55 billion for
networks related and services development in Africa.
Those two examples show how, although late compared
to other continents, Africa is determined to
catch-up.
The purpose of this presentation is to give an
overview of networks and applications projects
undertaken by the ITU in Africa, show where they
stand and how they can contribute to bridging the
digital divide in Africa. |
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Activities of ITU-D on ICTs: Désiré
Karyabwite (ITU/BDT) |
ICTs for employment creation, productivity
enhancement and poverty reduction in Africa
Shem Ochuodho (Chairman,
Africa Regional Computing Centre, Kenya)
Some skeptics have blamed ICTs in the developing
world to be more supply rather than demand-driven.
Their contention is that a region like Africa, for
instance, has got several more basic needs to be
concern with than pre-occupation with ICTs. On the
other end of the scale, are the over-zealous
proponents of ICT for development (ICT4D) who would
explain away almost every development-related
deficiency through the prism of an ICT-enabled
solution. While in most parts of the world –
including Africa, the debate is no longer one of
‘ICTs versus basic needs’, it is nevertheless vital
that: firstly, the realistic capabilities and
limitations of ICTs in problem-solving are
recognized, and secondly that for their acceptance
and prioritization by under-developed communities,
ICTs must be tailored to concretely address what
matters most to those communities. In essence,
appropriate ICTs must be evolved that stem priority
development concerns and challenges of a community.
Fortunately, there exists sufficient evidence from
both within and outside Africa to confirm that if
properly applied, ICTs could stem some of those
glaring challenges.
It has been generally accepted that some of the
greatest outstanding impediments to Africa’s
renaissance are centred around ‘poverty’; in some
cases ‘absolute poverty’. Consequently, some of the
priority sectors greatly impacted by poverty (or
wealth) tend to include employment (and its
absence), food, shelter, health, education, social
welfare and participation, lack of credit (for petty
trade), among others. Partly because of the rural
residency nature of Africa, whereby on average
three-quarters of the populace habit rural and
remote areas, it has emerged that agriculture is one
productive sector that must be targeted for
ICTirazion if we have to rid Africa of absolute
poverty and meet the millennium development goals (MDGs).
While there is sufficient evidence that ICTs are
pivotal to economic growth and wealth creation, the
same cannot be said about poverty reduction.
However, through ‘decent employment’ creation, cost
containment, and productivity enhancement, poverty
reduction can be adduced. In this paper, we report
the findings of a joint-study for the ITU/UNECA/ILO
on the impact of ICTs on poverty reduction (ICT4PVR)
in 7 selected African countries. The study reveals
that to create employment and reduce poverty, focus
has to be made on: i) high-employment potential
sectors like agriculture, the informal (SME) sector
and business process outsourcing (BPO), and ii)
high-impact and value-adding potential as has been
proven for social sectors like education and health,
as well as for business and trade (e-commerce).
Even for such to succeed, there are a number of
necessary pre-requisites, including availability of
resilient and affordable broadband infrastructure/NGN,
e-leadership, enabling and harmonized policies,
quality service, etc, some of which the paper
expounds on too. |
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Potential of ICT standards in an emerging
innovative ICT environment: Case of SATA: John Saidi Kimbe (Manager, Technology & Policy, SATA) |
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WELCOME DINNER |
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ITU Regional Development Forum 2008, Day 2, 27 May 2008 |
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0900 — 1030 |
SESSION 3 : Current ITU-T standardization hot
topics
Session Chairman: Tim Kelly (ITU/TSB)
Objectives: This session will address current
standardization topics in ITU-T. It will present
each topic from various perspectives: technology,
evolution and trends, current and future studies,
new services that could derive from new
technologies, focusing particularly on how they
could serve the Africa region. |
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Overview of ITU-T, including SG 3 activities
on Interconnection, tariff and accounting
issues: Saburo Tanaka (ITU/TSB) |
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Multimedia, facilitating accessibility: Pierre-André Probst (Chairman, ITU-T SG 16) |
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IPTV: John Visser (Chairman, ITU-T SG
19) |
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ICTs and climate change: Tim Kelly
(ITU/TSB) |
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1030 — 1045 |
COFFEE BREAK |
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1045 — 1215 |
SESSION 4 : International radiocommunication
standards and guidelines
Session Chairman: Bruce Gracie (Canada)
Objectives: This session will address the ITU-R
standards-making process, with emphasis on
collaboration with external organizations and the
participation of developing countries; proposals in
how to address the standardization gap issues will
be presented. |
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Radiocommunication standards development
activities: Fabio Leite (Deputy Director,
BR) |
Global Standards Collaboration (GSC)
Bruce Gracie (Canada)
The identification of mechanisms to enhance
national, regional and international collaboration
and cooperation on key standardization issues is
becoming essential, not only in response to the
predominantly global nature of such issues, but also
in the interest of optimizing the use of resources
and avoiding duplication of effort. Accordingly, the
Global Standards Collaboration, consisting of the
ITU as well as Participating Standards Organizations
(PSO) from Europe, the USA, Canada, Japan, China,
Korea and Australia, meets normally on an annual
basis to exchange information on the progress of
standards development in the different regions and
the state of the global standards development
environment. Opportunities for participation in GSC
meetings by observer entities, such as Regional
Telecommunication Organizations, offers the prospect
of expanding the scope of discussions to include
those previously excluded from such dialogue, thus
contributing to bridging the standardization gap. |
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ITU Radiocommunication Sector and Study
Groups: Fabio Leite (Deputy Director, BR) |
Development of Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC)
standards
John Tandoh (Ghana)
The ITU Plenipotentiary Conference (Antalya, 2006)
updated Resolution 123 on “Bridging the
standardisation gap between developed and developing
countries”.
Resolution 123 invites Member States and Sector
Members to make voluntary contributions to the fund
for bridging the standardisation gap, as well as to
undertake concrete actions to support the actions
and initiatives of ITU in this matter in conformity
with the follow-up and implementation of this
resolution, as well as the operative paragraphs of
Resolutions 44 (Florianopolis, 2004), 54
(Florianopolis, 2004) and 17(Rev. Florianopolis,
2004 and Resolution 47 (Doha, 2006).
Resolution 123 which recognises the continued
shortage of human resources in the standardization
field in developing countries, resulting in a low
level of developing country participation in
meetings of ITU-T and of ITU-R and, consequently, in
the standard-making process, leading to difficulties
when interpreting ITU-T and ITU-R Recommendations
also takes into account that developing countries
could benefit from improved capability in the
application and development of standards. One of the
fundamental steps towards bridging the
standardisation gap is for developing countries to
acquaint ourselves in the field of EMC Standards.
EMC
EMC is the situation where two or more
electromagnetic equipment working together in the
same environment performs together without causing
undue interference with each other.
The RF Spectrum used as a transmission medium in the
provision of Communication services in this era of
convergence, involving Telecommunications,
Broadcasting and Information Technology Services,
are based on mostly ITU Recommendations or
Standards.
REMEDY
To assist developing countries meet national and
international EMC standards, EMC Awareness seminars
need to be organized in developing countries as part
of the fundamental measures envisaged in Resolution
123 (Rev. Antalya, 2006). Such seminars on EMC
Standards may serve to form the basis of providing
an informed and practical introduction to EMI
problems and EMC solutions.
Noting that many countries in developing countries
especially in Africa are yet to develop their own
National Electromagnetic Compatibility Framework
Standards, organising EMC Seminars shall be one of
the essential and fundamental steps to assist in
bridging the standardisation gap between developing
and developed countries.
BENEFITS
The benefit to be derived from such seminar shall
include:
Increased awareness of Electromagnetic Interference
(EMI) and necessity for EMC Standards
Better understanding of National and International
EMC and Measurement procedures
Full understanding of the impact on the design and
manufacturing process and on the
importing/distribution and selling of products.
Improved ability to meet national and international
standards.
My presentation shall include among other things,
details on general introduction to EMI/EMC issues
including the importance of meeting EMC standards. |
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1215 — 1345 |
LUNCH |
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1345 — 1515 |
SESSION 5: Security and regulatory issues
Session Chairman: Bernard Forson (Director
General, National Communications Authority (NCA),Ghana)
Objectives: This session will provide an overview of
security standards and current security
standardization work. It will assess whether
developing countries and countries with economies in
transition have any special security needs that are
not already being addressed by the current studies.
Security topics will include technologies and
convergence implications and will cover
cybersecurity issues e.g. combating spam, and
identity management. Moreover, case
study/experiences from developing countries and
other regions will also be presented. |
Security and regulatory issues related to
electronic communication in the Republic of
South Africa
Paul Inglesby
(Telekom South Africa)
The presentation introduces a Security Architecture
highlighting the different layers and the
complexities found within these layers as far as
security is concerned.
The presentation then focuses on security issues in
the transport (network and access) layer. A detailed
mapping of the Security Architecture network layer
onto the Technology and Network Platforms is
discussed with emphasis on the strategic importance
of security.
The security standards working groups are reviewed
with specific reference to the NGN/IMS network.
Telkom’s IP Multimedia Subsystem (T-IMS) high-level
architecture, which is TISPAN ES 282 001 compliant,
is introduced and the role of the Network Attachment
Subsystem (NASS) highlighted with specific reference
to the security related requirements. The ITU-T
Y.NACF (Network attachment control function in Next
Generation Networks) is compared with the TISPAN
NASS ES 282 004 and areas of alignment are
discussed.
Regulatory requirements for the NGN/IMS network are
discussed and areas of non-compliance to regulatory
standards are highlighted.
Finally, the presentation provides some concluding
remarks regarding how strategic important it is to
have total alignment in the security and regulatory
standards specifically from a transport and service
layer perspective. |
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Cybersecurity, Combating Spam and Identity
Management: Tim Kelly (ITU/TSB) |
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Network aspects of Identification Systems (NID): Pierre-André Probst (Chairman, SG 16) |
Health impact of telecommunication
equipment
Joseph Kwabena Amoako (Ghana
Atomic Energy Commission)
The increased use of mobile phones has resulted in
improving the quality of the lives of individuals
and society in general. In spite of these benefits
there is an increase in the public concern about the
overall safety of this technology. Specifically, a
number of people are generally concerned about the
possible health effect of radio frequency radiations
from the mobile phone hand sets and the base station
antennae. These concerns are not limited to Ghana
but it is worldwide.
The consequent effects of the above concerns are the
increasing number of scientific research into the
both biological and adverse health effects of the
radiation from mobile phone handsets and the base
stations antennae.
This presentation examines some of the reported
biological effects from scientific research work and
possible health effects due to exposure to RF
radiation from mobile handsets and base station
antennae. Results from RF level measurement from
some communities in Ghana has been presented
Suggestions are made to reduce the perceived risks
associated with the installation and use of mobile
phone handsets. |
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Communication and regulation in the
convergent environment: Bernard Forson
(Director General, National Communications
Authority (NCA), Ghana) |
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1515 — 1530 |
COFFEE BREAK |
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1600 — 1730 |
SESSION 6: Development trends of NGN technology
as well as migration scenarios and strategies
Session Chairman: Ms Lyndall Shope Mafole
(Director General, Department of Communications,
South Africa)
Objectives: This session will present the evolution
of NGN and future perspectives in the relevant
access technologies, service and network
architecture, with special focus on convergence,
home, office and mobile applications, Internet
Protocol-based platform and Multiple Access
Networks. The session will also be devoted to the
evolution of network architecture towards NGN and
IMS, fixed-mobile convergence, evolution: towards a
new generation of broadband mobile, PSTN/ISDN
evolution to NGN, pilot cases and possible
scenarios, taking into consideration the relevant
business models and opportunities. |
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Next Generation Network deployment scenarios
and migration strategies: Paul Inglesby
(Telecom South Africa) |
The East African Broadband Infrastructure
Network (EAC-BIN): a platform for migration to
NGN
Shem Ochuodho (Chairman, Africa
Regional Computing Centre, Kenya)
The centrality of ICTs to socio-economic growth and
poverty reduction is no longer a point on
conjecture. However, for a country or region to
fully partake of the benefits of ICTs, high
resilient and affordable networks are a ‘must-have’.
As the more advanced parts of the world are
modernizing their networks and moving towards the
next generation networks (NGNs), Africa cannot
afford to be left behind. Fortunately, emerging
cost-efficient technologies like broadband wireless
access (BWA) and fiber optics present the continent
with a unique opportunity to leapfrog into the
global information society. Various regions of
Africa, ostensibly through their respective regional
economic communities (RECs) are aggressively
pursuing integrated regional efforts to ‘bridge the
digital divide’ and deliver their Partner States out
of ‘digital isolation’.
At continental level, the Connect Africa initiative
presents an exemplary opportunity for African
countries to seamlessly join the global village. The
East African region, for its part has embarked on
developing the East African Community Broadband
Infrastructure Network (EAC-BIN) to stimulate its
network modernization. The network pursues a 4-tier
strategy to deliver inexpensive, high-capacity
connectivity up to the village or community level,
beginning with cost-effective connectivity into
international circuits and gateways using undersea
optical fiber cable systems. To this extent, there
are up to five advanced initiatives to land
submarine cables at the coastal towns of Mombasa in
Kenya and/or Dar-es-Salaam in Tanzania, among other
sites. In addition, there are ongoing efforts to
develop national broadband backbone networks of
mainly optical fiber grade, but supplemented with
wireless and mobile networks to link all the major
towns of each Partner State, with appropriate
high-capacity cross-border links to interconnect the
various national networks. The East African Backbone
System (EABs) is one such regional network. In this
paper, we present the status and strategies for
broadband regional connectivity in East Africa, and
how the region aspires to migrate its network to NGN
status. In so doing, it is imperative to acknowledge
that standardization, harmonization, guaranteeing of
security and privacy, and upholding service quality
are all important attributes for satisfactory
service provision and network operation. The paper
highlights some of the endeavours to ensure service
quality, standardization and network optimization. |
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Scenario and migration strategy for NGN
development in Senegal: Raky Sada Wane Niang
(Chief, Network Planning Department (SONATEL)) |
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Tunisian experiences: Noureddine Zaouai
(Chief Engineer and Director of Technical
Affairs, CERT, Tunisia) |
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ITU Regional Development Forum 2008, Day 3, 28 May 2008 |
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0900 — 1000 |
PANEL SESSION: ITU for Africa
Session Chairmen: Jean-Jacques Massima-Landji
(ATU) and Chali Tumelo (ITU/BDT)
Objectives: This session will discuss how to enhance
working methods in order to create opportunities for
the Africa region to increase contributions to and
participation in ITU activities. Creation of
regional groups and other ways to go forward will be
discussed. How to help ITU-T’s Sector Members to
commit to input resources into the “Connect Africa
initiative”
Panellists: Session Chairs from earlier sessions and
invited experts |
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1000 — 1030 |
COFFEE BREAK |
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1030 — 1045 |
WRAP-UP SESSION: Future initiatives, next steps
and conclusions
Session Chairman: Jude Arthur (Chairman of
the Board of the National Communications Authority (NCA),
Ghana) |
Wrap-up and conclusion
John Visser
(Chairman, ITU-T SG 19)
This presentation, prepared during the seminar to
reflect the key points in the presentations aims to
provide a summary of the key points of this seminar,
and to provide an aid to more in depth review of the
material contributed by the speakers. It aims to
extract key overall messages for the event and to
provide a means for rapidly identifying the
individual presentations given to enable exploring a
particular topic in more depth. |
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Closing remarks on behalf of ITU: Malcolm
Johnson (Director of TSB) |
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1045 — 1215 |
SESSION 7 : WTSA preparation briefing
Session Chairman: Reynold Mfungahema
(Tanzania)
Objectives: This session will review the major
outcomes of WTSA-04 and the preparation status of
WTSA-08, including qualified participants, duties of
WTSA-08, and information on logistics as well as
information on the Round Table to be organized on 20
October 2008 just before WTSA-08. |
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Outline and expected results of WTSA-08:
Malcolm Johnson (Director of TSB) |
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General information on the preparation
status of WTSA-08: Saburo Tanaka (ITU/TSB) |
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Global Standards Symposium: Expected
outcomes for Africa: Ingrid Poni (Department of
Communications, South Africa) |
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Implementation status of Resolutions adopted
at the last WTSA-04 in Florianópolis: Saburo
Tanaka (ITU/TSB) |
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1215 — 1400 |
LUNCH |
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1400 — 1530 |
SESSION 8 : WTSA-08 – Major issues regarding the
ITU-T work programme and working methods
Session Chairman: Saburo Tanaka (ITU/TSB)
Objectives: This session will review WTSA
Resolutions and Recommendations, indicating the
major modifications to be proposed to WTSA-08. It
will also provide contact information for the
relevant TSAG correspondence groups. |
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Major issues and status related
to ITU-T work programme and organization: John
Visser (Chairman, ITU-T SG 19) |
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Major issues and status of outputs related
to working methods of ITU-T: Pierre-André Probst
(Chairman, ITU-T SG 16) |
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1530 — 1600 |
COFFEE BREAK |
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1600 — 1715 |
SESSION 9 : Issues for developing countries
Session Chairman: Matano Ndaro (Kenya)
Objectives: This session will explain the importance
of regional preparations and TSAG preparations for
WTSA-08, actions taken to facilitate the
participation and understanding of developing
countries in the activities of ITU-T. Other issues
will be discussed such as how to develop a Question
or Resolution of particular interest for Africa. |
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WTSA-08, issues for developing countries: Saburo Tanaka (ITU/TSB) |
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Results of WTSA-08 Preparatory Meetings in
the other regions (CITEL, CEPT, APT) |
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Facilitating the participation of African
countries in ITU-T activities: Using remote
collaboration tools: Tim Kelly (ITU/TSB) |
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The ITU Africa region WTSA-08 Preparatory Meeting, Day
1, 29 May 2008 |
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0930 – 1030 |
Chairman – Aboubakar Zourmba (Cameroun)
Rapporteur Ghana, Secretariat ATU
Introduction and explanation of Agenda Items for the
WTSA-08
Procedures for adoption of African Common Proposals
(ACP), issues to be selected for ACPs and
presentation of contributions by countries and
sector members |
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1030 – 1100 |
Coffee Break |
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1100 – 1230 |
Bridging the standardization gap and proposals to
enhance the participation in ITU-T activities |
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1230 – 1400 |
Lunch |
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1400 – 1530 |
Status of implementation of WTSA-04 issues - Lessons
Review and updating of existing resolutions and
propositions of new resolutions |
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1530 – 1600 |
Coffee break |
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1600 – 1730 |
Discussion on Study Groups restructuring and
candidacies for chair and vice chair for Study
Groups and TSAG |
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The ITU Africa region WTSA-08 Preparatory Meeting, Day
2, 30 May 2008 (in the morning) |
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0930 – 1030 |
Welcome by Chairman
Accreditation of Delegations
Presentation and Discussion of ACP Drafts |
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1030 – 1100 |
Coffee Break |
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1100 – 1230 |
Presentation of final draft
Adoption of ACP and SG structure and follow- up
arrangements up till WTSA-08. |
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1230 – 1400 |
Lunch |
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1400 |
Tour of parts of Accra (Optional) |
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FAREWELL DINNER |
