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UNI Telecom Represented in the ICT Indicators Meeting in Cairo

Published: 11 March 2009
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The 7th World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators (WTI) meeting took place in Cairo, Egypt, on March 3-5. The Meeting was organized by the Telecommunication Development Bureau (BDT) of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and hosted by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology of the Government of Egypt.



Among other issues, such as ICT household statistics, benchmarking information society developments, international data collection and dissemination, the meeting addressed measuring the impact of telecommunication development on the creation of employment. UNI Telecom was represented by Brother Kato Tomoyasu, President of NWJ Japan and the Vice-President of UNI Telecom. He made a presentation regarding the impact of ICT on employment and the convergence. He stressed the importantce of proactive investment in Next Generation Network (NGN) and broadband access having a great effect on the vitalization of the economy and creation of jobs.



There were 193 participants from ITU-D member countries government representatives, UN agencies, telecom companies, and research institutes. Brother Kato was the only the person representing the labour movement. For a long time UNI was trying to build appropriate relationship with ITU therefore Brother Kato's participation in this event was very significant. UNI telecom and its affiliates have to develop stronger participation in order to reflect workers' voice in ITU policy.



The presentation can be downloaded at;

www.itu.int/md/dologin_md.asp?lang=en&id=D06-DAP2B.1.3.7-C-0008!!PDF-E