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ITU-D Priorities<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>

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The focus of this priority is to foster an enabling policy and regulatory environment that responds to technological and market innovations and leverages wide collaboration and data-driven decision making in order to encourage sustainable and viable investment in infrastructure and innovative economic models, promoting sustainable digital growth and increased adoption of telecommunications\/ICTs, including support for spectrum management in line with WTDC Resolution 9 (Rev. Baku, 2025).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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The resilience of this environment relies on agile and capable administrations and regulators, empowered in their autonomy to take evidence-based decisions that enable a variety of business models and to defend consumers\u2019 interest in the market and empower all consumers within it, taking into account their economic analysis of consumer choice in the telecommunication\/ICT market. In addition, this work will support principles of transparency and accountability within policy and regulation that includes the perspectives of all stakeholders in their development and will explore models of collaborative regulation, where appropriate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Emergency Telecommunications<\/p>\n

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Network and Digital Infrastructure<\/p>\n

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Digital Services and Applications<\/p>\n

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Digital Innovation Ecosystems\u200b<\/p>\n

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Capacity Development<\/p>\n

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Cybersecurity<\/p>\n

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Partnerships<\/p>\n

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Mainstreaming the Needs of LDCs, LLDCs and SIDS<\/p>\n \u200bICTs help the least developed countries (LDCs), landlocked developed countries (LLDCs), and small island developing states (SIDS), to address their specific development challenges. LDCs, LLDCs, and SIDS face a number of connectivity barriers: many LDCs have large land areas and rural populations, and are sparsely populated, which makes the roll-out of terrestrial communication infrastructure more difficult. LLDCs lack direct access to the sea and many SIDS have numerous islands and often face high communication costs.
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