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Dates: ​9 to 20 October 2017   

Venue: Buenos Aires, Argentina​

Theme: ICT for Sustainable Development Goals" - ICT4SDGs
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WTDC-17 main event page

• Digital media pack
• Interactive programme
• Report on the implementation of the Dubai Action Plan
• WTDC-17 Pre-events (8 October 2017)
• WTDC-17 Side events

SPEECHES

• WTDC-17 ​​ Opening Ceremony: Speech by Houlin Zhao, ITU Secretary-General (English)
• WTDC-17 Opening Ceremony: Speech by Houlin Zhao, ITU Secretary-General (Spanish)
• WTDC-17 Opening Ceremony: Speech by Marcos Peña  Chief of Staff, Argentina (Spanish)
• WTDC-17 Opening Ceremony: Speech by H.E. Mr Andrés Ibarra, Minister of Modernization, Argentina (Spanish)
• WTDC-17 Opening Ceremony: Speech by Brahima Sanou, DIrector, ITU's Telecommunication Development Bureau
• WTDC-17 Opening Ceremony: Message by His Holiness Pope Francis (read by His Eminence Monsignor Emil Paul Tscherrig, Apostolic Nuncio in Argentina)
• WTDC-17 Opening Ceremony: Video Message by Antonio Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General​
• WTDC-17 Closing Ceremony: Speech by Houlin Zhao, ITU Secretary-General
• WTDC-17 Closing Ceremony: Speech by Brahima Sanou, Director, ITU's Telecommunication Development Bureau

​PRESS RELEASES

• Press Release: 26 October 2017- ITU’s World Telecommunication Development Conference advances use of ICTs to achieve global Sustainable Development Goals 
• Press release: 6 October 2017- ITU World Telecommunication Development Conference opens in Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Media Advisory : 21 September 2017 - Buenos Aires to host WTDC-17
• Media Advisory : 17 July 2017 - ITU World Telecommunication Development Conference set to meet in Buenos Aires, Argentina 9-20 October 2017​