DEVELOPMENT AND COMMUNICATIONS

WRC World Radiocommunication Conference (ITU)

WRC 97 will also prepare the agenda of WRC 99 for approval by the ITU Council.

the CICA Ministers of Foreign Affairs meeting

Noting that guidelines for the preparation of national communications were adopted by the Conference of the Parties at its eighth session,

The meeting adopted the Beijing Initiative and emphasized that mutual trust should be enhanced among political parties, there should be strengthened communication and

The General Assembly is expected to take up the ICT strategy at its sixtieth session.

REPORT OF THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON INFORMATION, COMMUNICATIONS

That conference adopted a plan of action for the implementation of dialogue through education, culture, the sciences, communication and information.

In April 2005, ECA will also hold the fourth meeting of the Committee on Development Information, the Subcommittee on Information and Communication Technologies and the Subcommittee on Geo Information.

Strengthening the capacity of Parliaments in Africa to harness information and communications technologies

All new information and communication technology initiatives throughout the Secretariat are reviewed by the Project Review Committee, which recommends to the Information and Communication Technology Board whether or not such initiatives should be approved.

Communicate via XMPP (Jabber) protocol

The Secretariat, through the Department for General Assembly and Conference Management, has introduced new electronic signboards displaying official meetings information.

WRC World Radiocommunication Conference (ITU)

In that resolution, the General Assembly noted with appreciation the report of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) entitled Information and Communication Technology Development Indices,1 which served as an important contribution to the preparation of the World Summit on the Information Society, and invited UNCTAD to update its report, in collaboration with the information and communication technologies Task Force and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).

The radiocommunication study groups are part of the ITU Radiocommunication Sector, which is responsible for studying technical, operational and regulatory procedural questions on radiocommunication, issuing recommendations and preparing the technical basis for radiocommunication assemblies and world radiocommunication conferences

The radiocommunication study groups are part of the ITU Radiocommunication Sector (ITU R), which is responsible for studying technical, operational and regulatory procedural questions on radiocommunication, issuing recommendations and preparing the technical basis for radiocommunication assemblies and world radiocommunication conferences

The report to WRC 99 was prepared by the CPM 97 in order to assist the ITU members who will be involved in the deliberations of WRC 99.

Expert Meeting on ICT and Tourism for Development

It was to be hoped that the conclusions of the United Nations Information and Communication Technologies Task Force and the Task Force on Financial Mechanisms for Information and Communication Technologies would be made available in time to be considered during the second phase of the World Summit on the Information Society.

Reports of UN meetings are published in SCMM international and regional newsletters.

The report to WRC 97 will be prepared by the CPM 97 in order to assist the ITU members who will be involved in the deliberations of WRC 97.

Adoption of the agenda and organization of work letter from the Chairman of the Committee on Conferences (A 52 340 Add.1) 8

The ICT Development Indices, developed jointly with UNCTAD and the ICT Task Force, were submitted to the first phase of the World Summit on the Information Society, held in Geneva from 10 to 12 December 2003.

It further decided to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty seventh session an item entitled Information and communication technologies for development (resolution 56 258).

REPORT OF THE Expert meeting on ICT and Tourism for Development

Concurrent session I A Communications for development

In that connection, APSCC submitted to the Conference, through the Marshall Islands, a memorandum of understanding for multilateral coordination meetings.

(i) Parliamentary documentation report to the Statistical Committee on issues related to information and communication technology indicators

In paragraph 140 of the report, UNOPS agreed with the Board's recommendation that it (a) develop an ICT strategic plan, (b) consider creating an ICT steering function or committee and (c) consider the benefits of adopting international standards and best practices to be applied to its ICT environment.

Welcoming the Tunis Commitment and the Tunis Agenda for the Information Society of the second phase of the World Summit on the Information Society, and recalling the Declaration of Principles and Plan of Action adopted at Geneva on 12 December 2003 at the first phase of the Summit,

ASEAN was committed to further developing the ICT sector and realizing the targets in the e ASEAN Framework Agreement, through the World Summit on the Information Society as well as through national and regional programmes.

Taking note also of Economic and Social Council resolution 2003 56, in which the Council invited the Commission to interact closely with the Information and Communication Technologies Task Force to promote greater information exchange and coordination of activities in the field of information and communication technologies in order to contribute to the World Summit on the Information Society,

To entrust the Council of Arab Ministers of Information and Communication Technology with responsibility for continuing its excellent work in preparation for the second phase of the World Summit on the Information Society

46. Also requests the Secretary General to continue to implement the information and communication technology strategy and to provide to the General Assembly at its fifty ninth session a progress report on the impact of investments in information and communication technology

It reiterates its recommendation in the light of the concerns expressed by the General Assembly and the Secretary General about ICT strategies and of the ICT problems recalled in the present report.

A panel on national implementation and ICT would also be organized during the World Summit on the Information Society.

The first session of the Subcommittee on Information, Communications and Space Technology was held at Bangkok from 13 to 15 October 2004.

A preliminary report was submitted to the 1995 World Radiocommunication Conference.

The COP appreciated the wealth of information provided through the UNFCCC information systems and its importance in the intergovernmental process.

During the first meeting of CPM 99, the members of the study groups, working parties, task groups, joint rapporteur groups and joint task groups of ITU R were entrusted with the responsibility of preparing the studies requested by WRC 97 ahead of the forthcoming WRC 99 and WRC 2001.

Bridging the digital divide between the poor and wealthy countries is the centrepiece of the Digital Solidarity Agenda contained in the Plan of Action for ICT adopted at the World Summit on the Information Society in Geneva in 2003.

III. Resolution adopted by the COPINE Provisional Governing Board Meeting at Helsinki on 8 July 1997 12

The leaders affirm the importance of ensuring that the Agreement to Establish the Arab Information and Communication Technology Organization comes into force before the second phase of the World Summit on the Information Society.