THE TELECOM 95 PROGRAMME FOR DEVELOPMENT



For the first time in the history of TELECOM exhibitions, TELECOM will offer a 
comprehensive and ambitious Programme for Development at the forthcoming exhibition, 
to be held in Geneva from 3 to 11 October 1995.

The Programme, sponsored by 13 of the major TELECOM exhibitors (Alcatel, Cable and 
Wireless College, Ericsson, IBM, MCI, Motorola, NEC, Northern Telecom, Nynex, Philips, 
Siemens, Telebras and TIA), is intended for least developed countries (LDC), low income 
countries (LIC) and newly industrializing countries (NIC). 

The Telecom 95 Programme for Development will be twofold: on the one hand, a two and 
a half day seminar (12-14 October) will focus on technology and human resources 
management; on the other hand, a number of NICs will be given an opportunity to exhibit 
at Telecom - the “NIC Pilot Project”. It is altogether in keeping with the spirit of the World 
Telecommunication Development Conference, held in Buenos Aires in March 1994, which 
advocated the creation of special programmes for the least developed countries

The seminar will take place immediately after Telecom and will aim at showing how the 
combined use of technology and human resources can serve to advance 
telecommunications development in LDCs and LICs. Fellowships will enable about 200 
individuals - senior telecommunication engineers and personnel managers - not only to 
take part in the seminar, but also, from the 8 to the 11 October, to visit Telecom and 
attend Forum sessions, in particular that of the Technology Summit on 
Telecommunications in developing countries. 

Under the NIC Pilot Project, research and development institutions and/or manufacturing 
companies from a number of selected NICs will be provided, free of charge, with exhibition 
space and booths, so as to enable them to promote their products and services as well as 
to meet and exchange ideas with telecommunication organizations. The main selection 
criteria will be technical excellence combined with sound market orientation and an 
inability to participate in TELECOM 95 on account of inadequate financial means and the 
absence of national sponsorship.