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WTIS 2016 - Speakers

The World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Symposium (WTIS) brings together thought leaders from ICT industry, Ministries, telecom regulatory authorities, national statistical offices and regional and international organisations. It is the key global forum to discuss international ICT measurement and a unique opportunity to join the leadership dialogue.

Confirmed speakers for WTIS-2016 include:




H.E. Mr Onkokame Kitso Mokaila Minister of Transport and Communications Botswana	Mr Thari G. Pheko Chief Executive Botswana Communications Regulatory Authority (BOCRA)	Mr Brahima Sanou Director Telecommunication Development Bureau ITU


	H.E. Mr Rufino Ovono Ondó Engonga Secretario de Estado encargado de Telecomunicaciones y Nuevas Tecnologías, Ministerio de Telecomunicaciones y Nuevas Tecnologías Equatorial Guinea

In alphabetical order:

Ms Josephine Ifeoma Amuwa Director Policy, Competition & Economic Analysis Department, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC)	Mr Aki Anastasiou Host of CNBC Africa Television Show TechBusters	Ms Annie Baldeo Executive Officer of the Policy Telecommunications Authority Trinidad and Tobago	Mr Bernard Banda Manager for Research and Statistics at the Zambia Information and Communications Technology Authority (ZICTA) Zambia


Dr Alexandre Fernandes Barbosa Head CETIC.br Brazil	Mr Itumeleng Batsalelwang Director, Telecommunications and Postal, Ministry of Transport and Communications Botswana	Dr Mårten Blix Digitalization Expert and Former Secretary to the Swedish Prime Minister in the Commission on the Future Challenges of Sweden	Mr Joseph Bulan Statistical Specialist Philippine Statistics Authority Philippines


Dr Aminata A. Garba Assistant Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Rwanda	Dr Alison Gillwald Executive Director Research ICT Africa (RIA)	Ms Vanessa Gray Head LDCs, SIDS and Emergency Telecommunications Division ITU	Mr Alasdair Hainsworth Chief Disaster Risk Reduction Service Division World Meteorological Organisation (WMO)


Mr John Harding Programme Officer UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR)	Ms Maria G. Harrison Commissioner Liberia Telecommunications Authority Liberia	Dr Iñigo Herguera Professor of Economics University of Madrid and Chair of the Expert Group on Telecommunications/ ICT Indicators (EGTI)	Mr Noble Thapeli Katse Director Business Development Botswana Communications Regulatory Authority


Dr Seung Keon Kim Director General Korea Association for ICT Promotion (KAIT) Korea (Rep. of)	Mr Paul Kiage Ag. Assistant Director Universal Service Obligations and Funding at the Communications Authority of Kenya	Ms Esperanza Magpantay Senior Statistician ICT Data and Statistics Division ITU	Ms Anna N. Majelantle Statistician General Statistics Botswana Botswana


Dr Burton S. Mguni Deputy Statistician General Statistics Botswana		Mr Jorge Iván Rodríguez Rojas Advisor of Sector Studies Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications Colombia	Ms Aurora A. Rubio Head of the ITU Area Office for South East Asia


		Mr Abdoulkarim Soumaila Secretary General African Telecommunications Union	Mr Seiji Takagi Director-General for International Affairs, Global ICT Strategy Bureau Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications Japan


Dr Susan Teltscher Head Human Capacity Building Division and Head a.i., ICT Data and Statistics Division ITU		Dr Dhanaraj Thakur Research Manager Alliance for Affordable Internet	Mr Margus Tiru Project Coordinator for ITU’s project "Big Data for Measuring the Information Society"


Mr Oshinka Tsiang Broadcaster, Motshwarateu Media, Botswana	Dr Cosmas Zavazava Chief of Department, Projects and Knowledge Management ITU


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WTIS 2016 - Speakers

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