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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)
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KEYNOTE SPEECH ]
- Welcome address : Akossi Akossi
(Secretary General of the African
Telecommunications Union (ATU))
[ BIOGRAPHY |
SPEECH ]
- Keynote address: "Ghana vision on ICT":
H.E. Dr Benjamin Aggrey Ntim, (Minister of
Communications, Ghana)
[ KEYNOTE ADDRESS ]
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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))
[ BIOGRAPHY ]
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)
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ABSTRACT |
PRESENTATION ]
- New business models and partnerships for
productivity, competitiveness and innovation
gains: Massimo Migliuolo (Vice President
Emerging Markets Theatre, Cisco)
[ BIOGRAPHY |
PRESENTATION ]
- One Laptop Per Child and “Connect the
World”: John Visser (on behalf of Bilel
Jamoussi, CTO, Strategic Standards, Nortel)
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PRESENTATION ]
- E-Readiness in Southern African Development
Community: John Saidi Kimbe (Manager,Technology
& Policy, South Africa Telecommunications
Association (SATA))
[ BIOGRAPHY |
ABSTRACT |
PRESENTATION ]
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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)
[ BIOGRAPHY ]
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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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)
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- Activities of ITU-D on ICTs: Désiré
Karyabwite (ITU/BDT)
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BIOGRAPHY
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- ICTs for employment creation, productivity
enhancement and poverty reduction in Africa: Shem Ochuodho (Chairman,
Africa Regional Computing Centre, Kenya)
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- Potential of ICT standards in an emerging
innovative ICT environment: Case of SATA: John Saidi Kimbe (Manager, Technology & Policy, SATA)
[ BIOGRAPHY
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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)
[ BIOGRAPHY ]
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.
- Overview of ITU-T, including SG 3 activities
on Interconnection, tariff and accounting
issues: Saburo Tanaka (ITU/TSB)
[ BIOGRAPHY
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- Multimedia, facilitating accessibility:
Pierre-André Probst (Chairman, ITU-T SG 16)
[ BIOGRAPHY
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- IPTV: John Visser (Chairman, ITU-T SG
19)
[ BIOGRAPHY
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- Networks Externalities: Vince Affleck
(Network Competition Manager, OFCOM, UK)
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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)
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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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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)
[ BIOGRAPHY ]
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/Challenges: The South African Perspective, Philemon Mofele (ICASA, South Africa)
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PRESENTATION ]
- Cybersecurity, Combating Spam and Identity
Management: Tim Kelly (ITU/TSB)
[ BIOGRAPHY |
PRESENTATION ]
- Network aspects of Identification Systems (NID):
Pierre-André Probst (Chairman, SG 16)
[ BIOGRAPHY
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- Health impact of telecommunication
equipment: Joseph Kwabena Amoako (Ghana
Atomic Energy Commission)
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PRESENTATION ]
- Communication and regulation in the
convergent environment: Bernard Forson
(Director General, National Communications
Authority (NCA), Ghana)
[ BIOGRAPHY |
PRESENTATION ]
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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.
- Next Generation Network deployment scenarios
and migration strategies: Paul Inglesby
(Telkom South Africa)
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PRESENTATION ]
- The East African Broadband Infrastructure
Network (EAC-BIN): a platform for migration to NGN: Shem Ochuodho (Chairman, Africa
Regional Computing Centre, Kenya)
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ABSTRACT |
PRESENTATION ]
- Scénario et Stratégie de migration vers les
réseaux NGN-Sonatel USE CASE, Modu Sall (SONATEL)
[ PRESENTATION ]
- Tunisian experiences: Noureddine Zaouali
(Chief Engineer and Director of Technical
Affairs, CERT, Tunisia)
[ PRESENTATION ]
- NGN Migration: Scenario and Strategy: David Mettle (CTO, Ghana Telecommunications Company, Ltd.)
[ PRESENTATION ]
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DINNER RECEPTION |
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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) [ BIOGRAPHY ] and
Chali Tumelo (ITU/BDT)
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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)
[ BIOGRAPHY ]
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1045 — 1215 |
SESSION 7 : WTSA preparation briefing
Session Chairman: Reynold Mfungahema
(Tanzania)
[ BIOGRAPHY ]
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.
- Outline and expected results of WTSA-08:
Malcolm Johnson (Director of TSB)
[ BIOGRAPHY
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- General information on the preparation
status of WTSA-08: Saburo Tanaka (ITU/TSB)
[ BIOGRAPHY
| PRESENTATION ]
- Global Standards Symposium: Expected
outcomes for Africa: Ingrid Poni (Department of
Communications, South Africa)
[ PRESENTATION ]
- Implementation status of Resolutions adopted
at the last WTSA-04 in Florianópolis: Saburo
Tanaka (ITU/TSB)
[ BIOGRAPHY
| PRESENTATION ]
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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)
[ BIOGRAPHY ]
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.
- Major issues and status related
to ITU-T work programme and organization: John
Visser (Chairman, ITU-T SG 19)
[ BIOGRAPHY
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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)
[ BIOGRAPHY
| PRESENTATION ]
- ICTs and climate change: Tim Kelly
(ITU/TSB)
[ BIOGRAPHY
| PRESENTATION ]
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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)
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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.
- WTSA-08, issues for developing countries:
Saburo Tanaka (ITU/TSB)
[ BIOGRAPHY
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- Results of WTSA-08 Preparatory Meetings in
the other regions (CITEL, CEPT, APT)
- Facilitating the participation of African
countries in ITU-T activities: Using remote
collaboration tools: Tim Kelly (ITU/TSB)
[ BIOGRAPHY
| PRESENTATION ]
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GALA DINNER |
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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 |
