Today’s world faces major challenges crucial for
human advancement.
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs)
can play a critical role in stimulating economic activities, advancing
social development goals and promoting sustainable development.
With innovations such as smart grids, smart metering, smart
billing and electro-mobility, ICTs have brought new ways of managing energy
distribution, improving efficiency and savings in all areas of production and
consumption, where energy savings are particularly envisaged for the ICT
infrastructure.
Tools as mobile communications, videoconferencing,
e-government and dematerialization have enabled new ways of working, learning
and operating a business, transforming our society.
Revolutionizing business
models and behavior, making management of energy distribution more efficient,
enabling new ways of working, learning, and providing healthcare, helping
countries to mitigate climate change and adapt to its effects and reduce
disaster risk, ICTs can be an opportunity for a sustainable and inclusive
future.
This session will present ICT Sector’s major achievements
and efforts in improving its role as enabler for sustainable change, providing
an overview on how green ICTs can help achieve the long-term balance between
human advancement and planet’s preservation.
Draft programme
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Opening remarks
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Ms. Nevine Tewfik,
Director of Research, Studies and Strategic
Planning, Ministry of Communications and
Information Technology, Egypt and Rapporteur of
ITU-T Q23/5 2.
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Tour de Table
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Presentations:
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Ms. Nevine Tewfik,
Director of Research, Studies and Strategic
Planning, Ministry of Communications and
Information Technology, Egypt and Rapporteur of
ITU-T Q23/5
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Mr. Taylor Reynolds,
OECD
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Next steps and future activities of the
DCICC
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AOB
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Conclusions
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