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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

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Thank you very much for your attention!

Jaroslaw K. PonderCoordinator, Europe, BDT (EUR)

International Telecommunication Union

Jaroslaw.Ponder@itu.intwww.itu.int/itu-d/eur