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Documents

• All Documents
  
• Administrative d​ocuments (ADM): calendar, programme, agendas, etc. (English only)
  
• ​Contributions ​: Contributions from Members and reports from Secretariat
• Proposals Management System
• Report by the Secretariat on the implementation of the Buenos Aires Action Plan
• Report on the Telecommunication Development Advisory Group activities
• Report on the regional preparatory meetings for WTDC
  
• Reports by the Study Group Chairmen
• Report on ITU-D Contributions to WSIS Action Lines
• Draft ITU-D Action Plan for 2022-2025
• Draft WTDC​ Declaration
• Proposals from ITU Member States and ITU-D Sector Members
  
• Information documents (INF) : for information only, not for discussion (English only)
• Temporary documents (DTs) : working documents (published in original language only, unless containing input to Final Report)
• Temporary documents with limited distribution (DL): draft working documents with limited audience (published in original language only)
• Draft Time Management Plan
  
• Contributions as received​
  
• Proposals submitted to WTDC​​​
  

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• ITU information/document access policy​​
  
• ​Sync Application​
  

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• WTDC ​Declaration
  
• Provisional Final Report​
  

Guidelines for the presentation of proposals

Proposals should be prepared and submitted via CPI.  The baseline texts for Regional Initiatives, Resolutions, Recommendations and Study Group Questions are the texts in the WTDC Final Report.  In the case of the Declaration and the Action Plan, the baseline texts will be those endorsed by TDAG-21.  The sequential numbering system should be used to identify the particular provision to which the proposal is related.  In case a Member does not want to use CPI, a WTDC template for proposals are available here ​in the six languages.

Member States should begin their proposals with a short summary of their views on each item and indicate the priority areas. This should be followed by detailed proposals, with each proposal being followed by a brief statement of the reason for the proposed change.​

Proposals should be submitted by focal points of Administrations of ITU Member States or of Sector Members via CPI or by e-mail to the WTDC secretariat at wtdc.documentcontrol@itu.int . The ITU standard format is MS Word for Windows.

On the basis of the contributions received by the deadline, BDT will allocate the documents based on the topics identified by the submitting administration in order to facilitate discussion at WTDC.

The main purpose of these guidelines is to enhance the timely processing for distribution as well as coordination of proposals submitted by membership and thus to facilitate the work of the Conference. These guidelines, if followed by membership, will enable the secretariat in ITU Headquarters to carry out its work in a more efficient and effective manner and avoid extra costs with respect to the budget of the Conference.​

Standards of presentation

​These standards of presentation should be adhered to as far as possible. In addition to providing a common approach to submitting contributions, CPI will also provide a fast-track to the processing of the input documents by reducing the reformatting of the contributions. Contributions not submitted through CPI may result in delays in their processing and posting.

Symbols to be used

• ADD Proposal to add new text 
  i.e. a draft new WTDC Resolution or Recommendation, Study Group Question, Regional Initiative, Action Plan or Declaration. You may NOT apply ADD at a lower level, as that would be considered modifying existing text and MOD would then apply. 
  Note: No "track changes" should be used.
• ADD* Proposal to add existing text from elsewhere 
  Note: it is necessary to reproduce the texts carrying the symbol (ADD*).
• MOD Proposal to modify an existing provision (modify) 
  i.e. adding, deleting or replacing words or figures. 
  Note: To modify the text, "track changes" should be turned on (Deleted text should appear as strikethroughand added text should appear as underlined).
• (MOD) Proposal to amend a text, from an editorial point of view 
  Note: To modify the text, "track changes" should be turned on (Deleted text should appear as strikethroughand added text should appear as underlined).
• SUP Proposal to delete a provision (suppress) 
  To be used only at the provision level, as is the case with ADD. 
  Note 1 - It is not necessary to reproduce texts carrying the symbol SUP. 
  Note 2 - Where text is to be deleted from within a provision, the symbol MOD should be used.
• SUP* Proposal to transfer text elsewhere 
  Note: it is not necessary to reproduce texts carrying the symbol SUP*.
• NOC Text for which no change is proposed 
  This symbol may be used to clarify that no proposals are made with respect to texts carrying this symbol. 
  Note: It is not necessary to reproduce texts carrying this symbol.
• NOC Proposal for a text to be maintained without change 
  This symbol may be used together with a proposal number to emphasize that a particular provision or provisions should remain unchanged. 
  Note: The reasons should be provided.

Processing of texts by BDT​

​​If not yet done by the Member, BDT will annotate the individual proposals with index numbers composed as follows: 

ABC/25/3 
where ABC is the symbol of the country, that is the author of the proposal (according to the Preface to the International Frequency List), 25 is the number of the document in which the proposal is published and 3 is the serial number of the proposal within that document.

WTDC​​ Documents

In line with Decision 5 (Rev. Dubai, 2018), the World Telecommunication Development Conference was conducted in a paperless manner. No paper copies of documents were provided. WTDC documents were published on the Conference website in accordance with the ITU Information/document access policy , as adopted by the 2016 Session of Council.

Submission of Proposals​

Deadline to submit proposals 

(as per PP R​esolution 165 ​(Rev. ​Dubai, 2018)):

16 May 2022 at 2359 hours Geneva time : Firm deadline for submission of membership proposals

Prepare and submit your ​proposals

The electronic tool Conference Proposals Interface (CPI) to facilitate preparation and submission of the proposals is now made available to membership to prepare and subm​it their WTDC proposals.

As from 30 November 2020 , and in order to allow membership to review existing texts during the WTDC preparatory process, a reduced version of Conference Proposals Interface (CPI) has been made available. Membership are able to download duly formatted Word files in the six languages for the following texts: Declaration, Regional Initiatives, Resolutions, Recommendations and Study Group Questions, to prepare and submit proposals for WTDC-21.​​​ ​​

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Conference Proposals Interface (CPI)

The user guide below​ has​ been prepared by​ the BDT for the submission of proposals to the forthcoming World Telecommunication Development Conference (WTDC).

CPI User Guide​​​​