The Secretary-General, Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation
(CTO), Shola Taylor, has pledged to ensure that the organisation plays a
greater role in coordinating the views of all member countries at treaty
meetings convened by the ITU, ITRealms
reports.
Taylor made this revelation at a meeting in Geneva recently with
the Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Houlin
Zhao.
The CTO boss said, “Coordinating
the views of Commonwealth countries and agreeing on common objectives in
advance of key international ICT decision-making meetings is an area where the
CTO can do a lot more. Deliberations at conferences convened by the ITU, such
as the World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC), the World Telecommunications
Standardisation Assembly (WTSA), the World Telecommunications Development
Conference (WTDC), or the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) can be
made more effective with prior consultations among Commonwealth countries.”
“Meeting with
Secretary-General Zhao was an opportunity to share first-hand with the ITU my
vision for the CTO. And we are starting immediately, with a Commonwealth
pre-WRC-15 meeting to take place in London on 7 - 9 October 2015, and which
will be honoured by the presence of Festus Daudu, Chair-designate of WRC-15,”
Taylor explained.
Welcoming Mr Taylor’s commitment to supporting global consensus
efforts on ICTs, Secretary-General Zhao said he looked forward to both
organisations working even more closely in the future.
“The CTO has been a very engaged and active partner of ITU for many
years, and we are delighted to have the opportunity to further strengthen this
bond. The Commonwealth is an important and very diverse global group of
countries, and we welcome the opportunity of ITU helping its members realise
their connectivity goals in collaboration with the CTO and the Commonwealth
Secretariat, as will be reported to the upcoming Commonwealth Heads of
Government meeting in Malta in just a few weeks. Our relationship with the CTO
will be a cornerstone of those efforts,” he said.
The two secretaries-general, ITRealms learnt, also discussed ongoing
initiatives by the two organisations and agreed to collaborate more closely,
including on regional initiatives, evens as the CTO plans to maintain its role
in international fora, such as with the recent 2015 WSIS Forum held in May
during which the CTO formally called for a sustainable development goal for
universally accessed and universally used ICTs.
The CTO, ITRealms
informs, is the oldest and largest Commonwealth membership organisation in the
field of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), and uses its
experience and expertise to support members in using ICTs to deliver effective
development interventions that enrich, empower, equalise and emancipate people
within the Commonwealth and beyond
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