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InternationalTelecommunicationUnion
Towards Effective Coordination for Europe
Jaroslaw K. PonderCoordinator, Europe, BDT (EUR)
International Telecommunication Union
www.itu.int/itu-d/eur
Presentation
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Europe: Special focus on the Central and Eastern Europe
Europe: 42 countries CEE: 19 countries including
10 EU members*
Population (total)= 125.96M Density= 81.68 per m2 GDP per capita= 7578 USD Basic ICT Statistics
Total Telephone Subscr.= 155.5M Fixed lines per 100= 28.7 Mobile per 100= 106 Effective teledencity= 99.41
Note: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria*, Croatia, Cyprys, Czech Rep.*, Estonia*, Hungary*, Latvia*, Lithuania*, Malta, Montenegro, Poland*, Romania*, Serbia, Slovak Rep.*, Slovenia*, TFYR Macedonia, Turkey
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Europe Coordination at the ITU-D
The Europe coordination at the ITU Headquarter acts as the focal points for the Europefocal points for the Europe. It seeks to provide support for all Union activitiessupport for all Union activities, helping implement its strategic and policy objectives through direct, sustained contact with national authorities, regional telecommunication organizations and other relevant bodies.
They also assist the countries inassist the countries in development inter development inter and intra regional cooperationand intra regional cooperation aimed at focusing on mainstreaming of the activities that focus on economies in transition as well as developing and least developed countries to meet their development goals.
In addition to providing technical and logistical support to development activities, the Europe coordination fulfill the basic functions of the development sectorthe basic functions of the development sector as a specialized and executing agency, resource mobilizer and information centre.
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Europe Coordination at the ITU-D
ITU's regional presence serves also to assist the ITU General Secretariat, the Radiocommunication Bureau and the Telecommunication Standardization Bureau in fulfilling their missions by: promoting their workpromoting their work, representing them at
regional and national events assisting them in organizing eventsassisting them in organizing events of a regional
character in their respective domain of activities or in joint activities with BDT
representingrepresenting ITU's elected officials at regional events
expressing the visions and the needsvisions and the needs of the countries in the different domains of activities and proposing actions for responding to their needs.
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BDT Structure
Notes: Dashed line - - - - = coordination of the BDT activities; RO = Regional Offices; AO = Area Offices
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Europe Coordination: Communication Means
Electronic Portalwww.itu.int/itu-d/eur
Electronic Distribution Lists EUR distribution
Online Registration SystemBuilding sustainable contact relations
Press coverage ITU News / Publications / Flash
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Europe Coordination:Significant DAP Meetings in 2009
26-30 January / Geneva Training for CEE
Administrations TDAG
1 March / On-line Virtual Forum on Strategic
Management for Europe and CIS
30 March – 3 April / Montenegro Human Capacity Building
Forum for Europe and CIS CoE Steering Committee for
Europe Internet Training Centers
Meeting for Europe and CIS 1 May / On-line
Virtual Forum on Strategic Management for Europe and CIS
30 April / Serbia Digital Broadcasting
April / Greece Emergency
Telecommunication June / TBD
Global Symposium for Regulators
November / Geneva Council
December / January Regional Preparatory
Meeting
Series of promotional events at national
level
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ITU Regional Human Capacity Development Forum for Europe and CIS
3 meetings in one3 meetings in oneHCB Forum CoE Steering
Committee Internet Training
Providers Meeting
Set-up Set-up 100 Professionals Leading executive
training providers Exhibition
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Regional Workshop on Transition to Digital Broadcasting
When? April / May
Where? Serbia, Belgrad
Budget ~20.000 USD
Participation 100 (15 countries)
Languages English
Coordination ITU-D / ITU-R
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Regional Preparatory Meeting (EUR)
When? December 2009 January 2010
Where?GreecePoland Serbia Andora
Budget~TBD
Participation100-200
participants
Languages EnglishFrenchSpanish
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Europe Coordination:Ad-hock Assistance
2008/February : Romania Protocol consisting of 6 cooperation points
2008/November: Albania Training and licenses for SMS4D
2008/2009: Serbia, Montenegro 26-27 January 2008: Training for CEE administrations
2009/Bulgaria Digital Broadcasting Study
2009/November: Serbia Digital Broadcasting Event
2009/ Poland: Pending Investment
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ITU Centres of Excellence for Europe&CIS
Executive TrainingExecutive TrainingTechnology AwarenessPolicy and Regulation Spectrum ManagementNetwork Development
Learning MethodsLearning MethodsFace-to-Face Distance Learning
CoE Nodes in EuropeCoE Nodes in Europe INA (Greece) NBU (Bulgaria)NIT (Poland) SPB (Romania)
For more information see: www.itu.int/itu-d/EURFor more information see: www.itu.int/itu-d/EUR
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ActionNumber
Title Leading Node
Duration Tentative ScheduleHosting Country
1 Universal Access and Service Frameworks Greece/INA(Hosted by
Serbia)
3 days TBDSerbia
2 On-line course on Broadband Communications regulatory aspects
Greece/INA DL 6 weeks
End of Februarye-learning Platform
3 Regulation of retail prices of SMP fixed telecommunication operators and their
obligations (Macedonia)
Greece/INA 3 days TBDMacedonia
4 Market Analysis: Towards 8 Markets (INA) Greece/INA 3 days TBD Greece
5 Case Study on WiMax: Techno-economic, Regulatory and Policy Challenges
Bulgaria/NBU
TBD TBDBulgaria
6 On-line course on New Spectrum Management conception and regulation
Bulgaria/NBU
DL6 weeks
TBD ITU e-learning
platform
7 PPP in Telecom Sector Bulgaria/Greece
3 days TBD
2009 CoE Activities in Europe
Further plan of action for 2009 will be determined during the SC-CoE in Montenegro
InternationalTelecommunicationUnion
Thank you very much for your attention!
Jaroslaw K. PonderCoordinator, Europe, BDT (EUR)
International Telecommunication Union
[email protected]/itu-d/eur