ITU in mid-flutter Shetty, Vineeta [electronic resource] /

English

1994

[Abstract] The potentates who make up the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), namely, the state-owned telecoms administrations, have a new challenge for the coming half-decade: ensuring their own survival. The Plenipotentiary Conference '94 in Kyoto, the quadrennial meeting to fine-tune the ITU's structure and practices, presented the opportunity to reinforce the intergovernmental agency, at least until the end of the century. Major breakthroughs in ITU activity at the Kyoto conferences had a way of being watered down in the call for further studies or in language that returned control to Geneva. Some breakthroughs that emerged concerned: 1. the Worldwide Policy Forum, 2. accounting rates, 3. piracy of the networks, 4. the deployment of telecom equipment for disaster relief, and 5. electronic access to documents.

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Communications International. Vol. 21, no. 11(1994) : p. 5 - 8