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Towards Effective Coordination for Europe

Towards Effective Coordination for Europe. Presentation. Jaroslaw K. Ponder Coordinator, Europe, BDT (EUR) International Telecommunication Union www.itu.int/itu-d/eur. Europe: Special focus on the Central and Eastern Europe. Europe: 42 countries

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Towards Effective Coordination for Europe

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  1. Towards Effective Coordination for Europe Presentation Jaroslaw K. Ponder Coordinator, Europe, BDT (EUR) International Telecommunication Union www.itu.int/itu-d/eur

  2. 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 *

  3. Europe Coordination at the ITU-D • The Europe coordination at the ITU Headquarter acts as the focal points for the Europe. It seeks to provide support 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 indevelopment inter and intra regional cooperationaimed 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 sectoras a specialized and executing agency, resource mobilizer and information centre.

  4. 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 work, representing them at regional and national events • assisting them in organizing events of a regional character in their respective domain of activities or in joint activities with BDT • representing ITU's elected officials at regional events • expressing the visions and the needs of the countries in the different domains of activities and proposing actions for responding to their needs.

  5. BDT Structure Notes: Dashed line - - - - = coordination of the BDT activities; RO = Regional Offices; AO = Area Offices

  6. Europe Coordination: Communication Means • Electronic Portal • www.itu.int/itu-d/eur • Electronic Distribution Lists • EUR distribution • Online Registration System • Building sustainable contact relations • Press coverage • ITU News / Publications / Flash

  7. 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 Europe Coordination:Significant DAP Meetings in 2009 Series of promotional events at national level

  8. ITU Regional Human Capacity Development Forum for Europe and CIS • 3 meetings in one • HCB Forum • CoE Steering Committee • Internet Training Providers Meeting • Set-up • 100 Professionals • Leading executive training providers • Exhibition

  9. When? April / May Where? Serbia, Belgrad Budget ~20.000 USD Participation 100 (15 countries) Languages English Coordination ITU-D / ITU-R Regional Workshop on Transition to Digital Broadcasting

  10. When? December 2009 January 2010 Where? Greece Poland Serbia Andora Budget ~TBD Participation 100-200 participants Languages English French Spanish Regional Preparatory Meeting (EUR)

  11. 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

  12. ITU Centres of Excellence for Europe&CIS • Executive Training • Technology Awareness • Policy and Regulation • Spectrum Management • Network Development • Learning Methods • Face-to-Face • Distance Learning • CoE Nodes in Europe • INA (Greece) • NBU (Bulgaria) • NIT (Poland) • SPB (Romania) For more information see: www.itu.int/itu-d/EUR

  13. 2009 CoE Activities in Europe Further plan of action for 2009 will be determined during the SC-CoE in Montenegro

  14. Thank you very much for your attention! Jaroslaw K. Ponder Coordinator, Europe, BDT (EUR) International Telecommunication Union Jaroslaw.Ponder@itu.int www.itu.int/itu-d/eur

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