The governing council of the International
Telecommunications Union (ITU) has approved that
more information and documents and documents held, managed, or generated by
ITU, to be openly available online, reports ITRealms.
Head, Corporate Communications, at ITU, Mr. Paul Conneally,
confirmed this to ITRealms, saying that the Union
started the
New Year by launching a new access to information policy, thus committing to
make more information and documents openly available online.
This decision, he said, was made by ITU's governing Council
in 2016, which aims at bringing public access to information for ITU's main
conferences and meetings in line with other international organisations like
the World Bank, UNDP, and UNESCO.
“The decision will enhance transparency to ITU's
decision-making processes,” he said.
He quoted ITU Secretary-General, Houlin Zhao, as saying that
the ITU Council decision provides more information and insight into ITU's
working methods and decision-making procedures to the general public and
promotes greater transparency and accountability.
"One of the powers of ICTs is their ability to make
organizations more trustworthy. ITU aims to lead by example" he said.
Zhao also said that as of 1 January 2017, input documents,
summaries of decisions, reports and other output documents would be available
to the public through ITU's website.
This process, he said, will be a standard feature of ITU's
main conferences and meetings in the coming years, including ITU Council
Working Groups, ITU Advisory Groups Meetings, the upcoming World
Telecommunication Development Conference 2017 and the ITU principle governing
body, the quadrennial Plenipotentiary Conference, the next one of which is
scheduled for the last quarter in 2018.
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