International Telecommunication Union
- World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC)
- World administrative radio conferences (WARC)
- Regional Radiocommunication Conferences (RRC)
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World Summit on the Information Society
- Main article: World Summit on the Information Society
The ITU was the lead organizing agency of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)[12], a United Nations summit aiming at bridging the digital divide and turning it into digital opportunity for all. WSIS provided a global forum on the theme of ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies) for development, involving for the first time all stakeholders - governments, international organizations, civil society and business. WSIS was a pledge for building a people-centered development-oriented Information Society. Other big themes of the Summit were Internet governance and Financial mechanisms for meeting the challenges of ICTs for development.
The idea of holding WSIS came from the Tunisian President Ben Ali on the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference in Minneapolis in 1998. The process was launched late in 2002 on the initiative of Kofi Annan. The first phase of the WSIS summit took place in December 2003 in Geneva and the second and final phase took place in Tunis in November 2005.
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See also
- ITU defines the future of mobile communications
- ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T)
- ITU Radiocommunication Sector (ITU-R)
- ITU Telecommunication Development Sector (ITU-D)
- ITU-T Recommendations
- ITU-R Recommendations
- UIT X.509
- Inter-American Telecommunication Commission (CITEL)
- Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG)
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Notes
- ^ The traditional Chinese name of the Union is 國際電信聯盟.
- ^ Report on election of Toure
- ^ ITU Digital Opportunity Index
- ^ World Summit on the Information Society
- ^ World Information Society Report
- ^ World Information Society Report 2007
- ^ Digital Opportunity Index (DOI)
- ^ The available definition of the DOI is a methodological paper first presented at the WSIS Thematic Meeting “Building Digital Bridges” in Bussan, Korea in June 2005: [1]
- ^ Digital Opportunity Forum 2006
- ^ http://www.itu.int/net/home/index.aspx ITU Membership Information and access to membership list
- ^ Resolution 99, "Status of Palestine in ITU", ITU Plenipotentiary Conference, Minneapolis, 1998
- ^ World Summit on the Information Society: Redirect
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External links
- ITU official site
- ITU history from the official site
- U.N. Summit to Focus on Internet - Washington Post article about ICANN and the United Nations' ITU relationship
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