Adoption of the GSR best practice guidelines

Panel discussion: Collaborative regulation for digital transformation

• A whole of governance approach - the voice and role of sectoral regulators (energy, competition, broadcasting, digital content, data protection, financing)
• Empowering stakeholders - from consultation to co-regulation – every voice counts!
• Moving the regulatory cursor to adapt to a changing ecosystem
• Impact of regulatory tools - evidence based regulation

  Speaker

  Ms Doreen Bogdan-Martin Director, Telecommunication Development Bureau (BDT) International Telecommunication Union Biography

  Ms Mercy Wanjau Chair (21) and Acting Director General Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) Kenya Biography

  Intervener

  Ms Gisa Fuatai Purcell Regulator Office of the Regulator Samoa (Independent State of) Biography

  Mr Michel Van Bellinghen Chairman of the Council Belgian Institute for Postal services and Telecommunications (BIPT) and BEREC Chair 2021 Belgium Biography

  Dr Mohammed Al Tamimi Governor Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC) Saudi Arabia Biography

  Dr P D Vaghela Chairman Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) India Biography

  Mr Amir Azeem Bajwa Chairman Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) Pakistan Biography

  Mr Serge Abiteboul Board Member Autorité de Régulation des Communications électroniques et des Postes (ARCEP) France Biography

  Ms Jessica Rosenworcel Acting Chair Federal Communications Commission (FCC) United States Biography

  Mr Ramiro Camacho Castillo Commissioner Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones (IFT) Mexico Biography

  Professor Konstantinos Masselos President Hellenic Telecommunications & Post Commission (EETT) Greece Biography

  Mr Belal Hafnawi Commissioner Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (TRC) Jordan Biography

  Mr Rafael Eduardo Muente Schwarz Presidente del Consejo Directivo Organismo Supervisor de Inversión Privada en Telecomunicaciones (OSIPTEL) Peru Biography

  Mr Carlos Lugo Commissioner Comisión de Regulación de Comunicaciones (CRC) Colombia Biography

  Mrs Hana Tovarkova Council Chair Czech Telecommunication Office (CTU) Czech Rep. Biography

  H.E Chenda Thong Chairman Telecommunication Regulator of Cambodia (TRC) Cambodia Biography

  Professor Américo Muchanga Chairman of the Board Autoridade Reguladora das Comunicações de Moçambique (ARECOM) Mozambique Biography

This joint ITU-USTTI event provided regulatory officials with information and insights on how emerging technologies can accelerate the digital transformation process, and how such smart technologies and innovation have strengthened digital resilience. This training session saw subject matter experts further discuss how these emerging technologies interact with key policy and regulatory trends.

This webinar came at a time when COVID-19 has highlighted the strategic importance of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) networks and services for society and economies around the globe.

Moderator

Mr Jim O’Connor Chairman & CEO USTTI

Speaker

Ms Doreen Bogdan-Martin BDT Director International Telecommunication Union Biography

Intervener

Ms Aminata Amadou Garba Senior Coordinator, DNS, BDT International Telecommunication Union Statement | Biography

Panelist

Ms Ruth Pritchard Kelly Vice President Regulatory Affairs OneWeb Presentation : Presentation

Mr Michael Fitzpatrick Head of Global Regulatory Affairs Google

Dr Robert Pepper Head of Global Connectivity Policy and Planning Facebook Presentation : Presentation

Mr Ron Repasi Acting Chief of the Office of Engineering and Technology Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Presentation : Presentation

This session of the Road to Addis series focused on Leadership as a driving force to achieve digital transformation and universal connectivity.

The session was part of the Global Symposium of Regulators (GSR) 2021 core sessions programme. It featured leaders from different disciplines who can share valuable lessons about their own experience accomplishing the unimaginable, providing insight and inspiration to Symposium delegates around the world.

The session aimed to answer the following questions:

• What constitutes a great leader today and what skills will be required for the leaders of the future?
• What kind of leadership is needed to enable the digital transformation of an entire planet?
• What leadership lessons can be applied to solving the universal and inclusive connectivity challenge by 2030?
• What does it take to help people accomplish the unimaginable?

Session Objectives:

• Identify the leadership principles that are required to achieve universal and inclusive connectivity and the accomplishment of the SDGs.
• Inspire attendees of the GSR and the global online community with real life examples of global leaders from different spheres that have accomplished the unimaginable.
• Share leadership lessons from different sectors and assess how they can be applied to connectivity for sustainable development.

Learn more about the event agenda and speakers Here

The Regional Regulatory Association Meeting (RA) focused on the role of regional and international organizations in promoting Broadband mapping tools to foster investment and competition for inclusive and sustainable connectivity.

The Regional Regulatory Associations Meeting provides a unique platform for Regulatory Associations to share experiences and knowledge, to discuss how they can collaborate, and to identify means to bring affordable, safe, secure and trusted connectivity and online access and use to people in their respective regions.

RA Website and Final Report

Opening Remarks

Ms Doreen Bogdan-Martin Director, Telecommunication Development Bureau (BDT) International Telecommunication Union Biography

Ms Bridget Mphatso Linzie Chair RA and Executive Secretary Communications Regulators’ Association of Southern Africa (CRASA) Biography

Interactive Discussion: Broadband Mapping tools to foster investment and Competition for Inclusive and Sustainable Connectivity

Mr Vladimir Daigele Telecommunication Network & spectrum Management Division, BDT International Telecommunication Union Presentation : Presentation on the ITU Broadband Maps Biography

Mr Francisco Chate Executive Secretary Association of Communications and Telecommunications Regulators of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (ARCTEL-CPLP) Biography

Mr Mohamed Chemani Permanent Secretariat Arab Regulators Network of telecommunications and information technologies (AREGNET) Biography

Ms Bernice Otye Edande Secrétaire Permanent Assemblée des Régulateurs des Télécommunications de l'Afrique Centrale (ARTAC) Presentation : Le projet de la dorsale à fibre optique d’Afrique Centrale/Projet CAB Biography

Mr John Omo Secretary General African Telecommunication Union (ATU) Biography

Ms Annemarie Sipkes Incoming BEREC Chair 2022 Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) Biography

Mr Oscar Leon Executive Secretary Inter-American Telecommunication Commission (CITEL) Biography

Mr Selby Wilson Caribbean Telecommunication Union (CTU) Presentation : Presentation on the CTU’s Handbook and Workshop on the Implementation of Digital ID Systems

Ms Nataliia Lado Representative Eastern Partnership Electronic Communications Regulators Network (EaPeReg) Biography

Mr Abdoul Ly Chair 2021 Réseau Francophone de la Régulation des Télécommunications (FRATEL) Biography

Mr Almazbek Apandievich Kadyrkulov Deputy Director General Executive Committee, Regional Commonwealth in the Field of Communications (RCC) Biography

Ms Paola Andrea Bonilla Castaño Representative Foro Latinoamericano de Entes Reguladores de Telecomunicaciones (REGULATEL) Presentation : Regulación y Conectividad Innovadora Biography

Mr Jigme Wangdi Chairman South Asian Telecommunication Regulators' Council (SATRC)

Closing, Recommendations and Ways Forward

Ms Bridget Mphatso Linzie Chair RA and Executive Secretary Communications Regulators’ Association of Southern Africa (CRASA) Biography

• The importance of sharing: spectrum, networks, infrastructure co-deployment, etc
• How to balance affordability, RoI and technologies innovation? Why regulation matters
• Fair competition in a globalized digital world: a dream? lifting the remaining regulatory, commercial and business anticompetitive practices
• Building digital resilience: Lessons learned from the pandemic and addressing urgent challenges (climate change, emergency, etc)

  Moderator

  Mr Michel Van Bellinghen Chairman of the Council Belgian Institute for Postal services and Telecommunications (BIPT) and BEREC Chair 2021 Belgium Biography

  Introductory Remarks

  Mr Mario Maniewicz Director, Radiocommunication Bureau International Telecommunication Union Biography

  Panelist

  Ms Ekaterine Imedadze Commissioner Georgian National Communications Commission Georgia Biography

  Mr Serge Abiteboul Board Member Autorité de Régulation des Communications électroniques et des Postes (ARCEP) France Biography

  Ms Bridget Mphatso Linzie Executive Secretary Communications Regulators’ Association of Southern Africa (CRASA) Biography

  Mr Geoffrey Starks Commissioner Federal Communications Commission (FCC) United States Biography

  Ms Jayne Stancavage Global Executive Director of Product and Digital Infrastructure Policy Intel Corporation Biography

A Conversation between youth and regulators/industry

Moderator

Mrs Celia Pellet Biography

Mrs Emma Randall Biography

Panelist

Ms Hannia Vega Superintendency of Telecommunications (SUTEL) Costa Rica Biography

Ms Helena Fernandes Instituto Nacional das Comunicações de Moçambique (INCM) Mozambique Biography

Ms Belinda Exelby Global System for Mobile Communications (GSMA) Biography

Ms Vigneswara Ihita Gangavarapu Board Member Generation Connect Visionaries Biography

Ms Valarie Waswa Representative Generation Connect Africa Youth Group Biography

Mr Daniel Kalemi Representative Generation Connect Europe Youth Group Biography

Financing Universal Access to Digital Technologies and Services

The ITU World Bank Digital Regulation Platform

• Reviewing the USO concept to address the digital ecosystem
• Innovative funding approaches and financial solutions, lessons from the other sectors
• Do traditional financing models still apply? Reforming approaches to USF
• Regulation as an enabler

  Moderator

  Ms Irene Kaggwa Sewankambo Acting Executive Director Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) Uganda Biography

  Setting the scene

  Mr Andile Ngcaba Founding Partner & Chairman Convergence Partners Presentation : Presentation Biography

  Panelist

  Mr Bocar Ba CEO Samena Telecommunications Council and Broadband Commission Commissioner Biography

  Ms Hannia Vega Commissioner Superintendencia de Telecomunicaciones (SUTEL) Costa Rica Biography

  Ms Boutheina Guermazi Director of Digital Development Infrastructure Practice Group World Bank Biography

  Ms Jane Coffin Senior Vice President Internet Growth ISOC Biography

  Mr Brian Winji CEO Telecommunications, Radiocommunications and Broadcasting Regulation (TRBR) Vanuatu Biography

• REG4COVID website
• Publication Pandemic in the Internet age
• Publication Economic Impact on Digitisation, ICT Regulation Series

• Driving digital deepening across infrastructure and the platform value chain (from satellite to terrestrial, wireless services, cloud services and digital platforms)
• Fostering emerging technologies uptakes: a case for regulatory sandboxes, co-regulation, self-regulation to enhance digital for economic and social development
• Regulatory innovation driving local development and entrepreneurship
• Cross sectoral regulatory incentives to foster local and young entrepreneurs to contribute and benefit from smart digital transformation

  Moderator

  Mr Oscar Leon Executive Secretary Inter-American Telecommunication Commission (CITEL) Biography

  Panelist

  Mr Carlos Lugo Commissioner Comisión de Regulación de Comunicaciones (CRC) Colombia Biography

  Mr João António Cadete de Matos Chairman Autoridade Nacional de Comunicações (ANACOM) Portugal Biography

  Mr Flavien Bachabi Chairman of the Board Autorité de Régulation des Communications Electroniques et de la Poste (ARCEP) Benin Biography

  Ms Jennifer Manner Senior Vice President of Regulatory Affairs EchoStar Corporation/Hughes Biography

  Mr Rahul Vatts Chief Regulatory Affairs Bharti Airtel Biography

  Ms Monica Desai Global Head Connectivity and Access Facebook Biography

The Network of Women for WTDC (NoW4WTDC) is a platform for collaboration and exchange of information to increase the number of women participating in ITU-D meetings . It is also a platform to encourage more women to take up leadership roles, such as committee chairs, working group chairs in the conference structures, and other management roles in the preparatory processes for the WTDC itself, and beyond. It provides the opportunity to share important lessons in a supportive community including mentorship.

The objective of the side event was to spark conversations that infuse diverse perspectives from experiences to help build capacity of potential women leaders in National Regulatory Agencies, ICT policy agencies and in the industry in general.

The topic of discussion at the side event during GSR 2021 were: “Promoting women leadership in the ICT regulatory and policy space.” The session featured three female leaders in a fireside chat. It allowed these leaders to share their perspectives and journey in leadership in the ICT industry, and also share experiences helpful in encouraging appropriate measures that will enable more women to ascend into executive roles.

In addition to the launch of the mentorship programme and the call for mentors in May 2021, the call for mentees was made at this 24 June side event. The ITU Telecommunication Development Bureau (BDT) also released the results of the survey on the call for mentors, as well the survey carried out to seek views of members on preferred communication platforms.

Learn more about the Network of Women for WTDC (Now4WTDC)

Welcome and Opening

Ms Cristiana Flutur Co-President of CEPT and Chairman of Com-ITU, Head of International Affairs Unit National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications of Romania (ANCOM) Romania Biography

Ms Doreen Bogdan-Martin Director, Telecommunication Development Bureau (BDT) International Telecommunication Union Biography

Fireside Chat Moderator

Ms Sulyna Abdullah Chief, a.i., Digital Knowledge Hub Department, Telecommunication Development Bureau International Telecommunication Union Biography

Fire Side chat Panelists

Ms Amy Alvarez Vice Chair of IAGDI-CRO and AVP - International External & Regulatory Affairs AT&T Biography

Ms Sabine Holl Vice President Technical Sales and CTO Middle East and Africa IBM Biography

Ms Aileen Chia Deputy Chief Executive Connectivity Development & Regulation Director-General (Telecoms & Post) Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) Biography

• Achieving safe child digital inclusion – a coordinated policy response
• Child empowerment - the role of the regulator
• Fostering child online safety (COP): a regulatory and industry perspective
• How to keep everyone safe during times of crisis

  Moderator

  Ms Mercy Wanjau GSR Chair and Acting Director General Communications Authority of Kenya Kenya Biography

  Sangophone COP Mascot Biography

  Panelist

  Mr Jacek Oko President Office of Electronic Communications (UKE) Poland Biography

  Mr Cornelius Williams Global Chief of Child Protection, UNICEF Biography

  Ms Rebecca Razavi Chief Operating Officer e-Safety Commission Australia Biography

  Ms Almudena Lara Senior Manager, Child Safety Google Biography

  Ms Alexandra Evans Head, Child Safety Public Policy Europe TikTok Biography

  Young Intervener

  Ms Nicole Damianidis Young student Biography

  Ms Lella Violet Halloum Young student Biography

Some of the highlighted tools will be:

• G5 Benchmark Fifth Generation Collaborative Regulation COMING SOON
• ICT Regulatory Tracker
• Global ICT Regulatory Outlook Series

How can collaborative regulation help?

• Moving the regulatory cursor to adapt to a changing ecosystem
• Driving transformation: setting a platform for partnership fostering a whole of governance approach in the digital ecosystem
• Extending partnerships to non-traditional stakeholders: the regulator as a cross sectoral, collaborative partner
• Driving digital investment for sustainable development (linked to SDGs)

  (15h40-15h50) ITU-FCDO partnership for school connectivity and digital inclusion

  Moderator

  Professor Konstantinos Masselos President Hellenic Telecommunications & Post Commission (EETT) Greece Biography

  Panelist

  Ms Emilia Nghikembua CEO Communications Regulatory Authority of Namibia (CRAN) Namibia Biography

  Ms Aarti Holla-Maini Secretary General ESOA Biography

  Mr Andrew Reinsdorf Senior Vice President – Warner Bros. Government Relations & AT&T International Public Affairs AT&T Biography

  Ms Caroline Kamaitha Vice President Sales Africa SES

  Mr John Frank Vice President UN Affairs Microsoft Biography

  Special Announcement: ITU-FCDO partnership

  Ms Alessandra Lustrati Head of Digital Development Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) Biography

  H.E. Ambassador Simon Manley Permanent Representative WTO and the UN agencies in Geneva Biography

  Ms Doreen Bogdan-Martin Director, Telecommunication Development Bureau (BDT) International Telecommunication Union Biography