ITU Telecom World
Encyclopedia
ITU Telecom is part of the ITU (International Telecommunication Union
), the United Nations
specialized agency for telecommunications. ITU Telecom organizes global events for the governments, industry leaders and regulators that form part of the world’s ICT
community. The first ITU Telecom event was held in 1971 and marked its 40th anniversary in 2011. The next ITU Telecom World event will take place in Q4 2012 and be held in Dubai
, UAE.
In 1985, the ITU Telecom staged its first regional telecommunication exhibition in the Asia-Pacific
region – Asia Telecom85. This was followed the next year by its first regional event in the Africa
region — Africa Telecom86. By 1992, the series of regional telecommunication exhibitions was completed with the first such events in the Americas region — Americas Telecom 88 and in the Europe region - Europa Telecom 1992.
ITU Telecom World 2009 was attended by over 2,250 VIPs, including UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
, Heads of State, Heads of Government, Ministers, Ambassadors, heads of regulatory agencies, and CEOs from around the world. Through a series of top-level roundtables, meetings and debates, the event addressed pressing issues such as climate change
, global economic recovery and cybersecurity.
World '11 was attended by 6500 industry professionals including Heads of State and Government
, Ministers, City Mayors, Industry CEOs and technology gurus; of these, 332 leaders participated in the exclusive Broadband Leadership Summit, part of the Broadband Commission for Digital Development
. Thiry four of the world’s major ICT names participated in all aspects of the event as key partners, including telcos
, technology companies, manufacturers, operators, content and applications providers
; plus regulators, policy advisers and key media players.
251 influential speakers from 64 countries took part in the multi- streamed conference agenda. The Forum debates are available for video streaming on-demand. For the first time, young innovators played a key part of the event agenda, with 10,000 students from schools across the globe, sharing their work with 150,000 of their classmates across five continents through a parallel Metaconference..
In addition, 258 stands from 235 participating companies from 41 countries were represented on the Show Floor; and 324 accredited media from around including major global broadcasters, news agencies, specialised technology and financial press.
The next event, ITU Telecom World 2012, will be held in Dubai.
International Telecommunication Union
The International Telecommunication Union is the specialized agency of the United Nations which is responsible for information and communication technologies...
), the United Nations
United Nations
The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...
specialized agency for telecommunications. ITU Telecom organizes global events for the governments, industry leaders and regulators that form part of the world’s ICT
Information and communication technologies
Information and communications technology or information and communication technology, usually abbreviated as ICT, is often used as an extended synonym for information technology , but is usually a more general term that stresses the role of unified communications and the integration of...
community. The first ITU Telecom event was held in 1971 and marked its 40th anniversary in 2011. The next ITU Telecom World event will take place in Q4 2012 and be held in Dubai
Dubai
Dubai is a city and emirate in the United Arab Emirates . The emirate is located south of the Persian Gulf on the Arabian Peninsula and has the largest population with the second-largest land territory by area of all the emirates, after Abu Dhabi...
, UAE.
History
The first ITU Telecom World event was held in 1971. It quickly established itself as the leading exhibition and forum for the global ICT industry. Bringing together representatives of governments, regulators and industry, the event has provided a forum for some of the industry’s most influential people to collaborate and engage in high-level dialogue on the major challenges facing the sector.In 1985, the ITU Telecom staged its first regional telecommunication exhibition in the Asia-Pacific
Asia-Pacific
Asia-Pacific or Asia Pacific is the part of the world in or near the Western Pacific Ocean...
region – Asia Telecom85. This was followed the next year by its first regional event in the Africa
Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...
region — Africa Telecom86. By 1992, the series of regional telecommunication exhibitions was completed with the first such events in the Americas region — Americas Telecom 88 and in the Europe region - Europa Telecom 1992.
ITU Telecom World 2009 was attended by over 2,250 VIPs, including UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
Ban Ki-moon
Ban Ki-moon is the eighth and current Secretary-General of the United Nations, after succeeding Kofi Annan in 2007. Before going on to be Secretary-General, Ban was a career diplomat in South Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and in the United Nations. He entered diplomatic service the year he...
, Heads of State, Heads of Government, Ministers, Ambassadors, heads of regulatory agencies, and CEOs from around the world. Through a series of top-level roundtables, meetings and debates, the event addressed pressing issues such as climate change
Climate change
Climate change is a significant and lasting change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns over periods ranging from decades to millions of years. It may be a change in average weather conditions or the distribution of events around that average...
, global economic recovery and cybersecurity.
ITU Telecom World 2011
In a departure from previous events, ITU Telecom World 2011 dispensed with a traditional exhibition show floor and instead focused on facilitating knowledge sharing, networking, deal making and consensus building. By addressing the major trends and challenges facing the ICT industry – at both a governmental and industry level – ITU Telecom World 2011 provided a forum for high level debate and decision-making.World '11 was attended by 6500 industry professionals including Heads of State and Government
Government
Government refers to the legislators, administrators, and arbitrators in the administrative bureaucracy who control a state at a given time, and to the system of government by which they are organized...
, Ministers, City Mayors, Industry CEOs and technology gurus; of these, 332 leaders participated in the exclusive Broadband Leadership Summit, part of the Broadband Commission for Digital Development
Broadband Commission for Digital Development
The Broadband Commission for Digital Development was established in May 2010 as a joint initiative by the International Telecommunication Union and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization...
. Thiry four of the world’s major ICT names participated in all aspects of the event as key partners, including telcos
Telephone company
A telephone company is a service provider of telecommunications services such as telephony and data communications access. Many were at one time nationalized or state-regulated monopolies...
, technology companies, manufacturers, operators, content and applications providers
Application service provider
An application service provider is a business that provides computer-based services to customers over a network. Software offered using an ASP model is also sometimes called On-demand software or software as a service ....
; plus regulators, policy advisers and key media players.
251 influential speakers from 64 countries took part in the multi- streamed conference agenda. The Forum debates are available for video streaming on-demand. For the first time, young innovators played a key part of the event agenda, with 10,000 students from schools across the globe, sharing their work with 150,000 of their classmates across five continents through a parallel Metaconference..
In addition, 258 stands from 235 participating companies from 41 countries were represented on the Show Floor; and 324 accredited media from around including major global broadcasters, news agencies, specialised technology and financial press.
The next event, ITU Telecom World 2012, will be held in Dubai.
Past Events
- Telecom 71 (Geneva)
- Telecom 75 (Geneva)
- Telecom 79 (Geneva)
- Telecom 83 (Geneva)
- Asia Telecom 1985 (Singapore)
- Africa Telecom 1986 (Nairobi)
- Telecom 87 (Geneva)
- Americas Telecom 1988 (Rio)
- Asia Telecom 1989 (Singapore)
- Africa Telecom 1990 (Harare)
- Telecom 91(Geneva)
- Europa Telecom 1992 (Budapest)
- Americas Telecom 1992 (Acapulco)
- Asia Telecom 1993 (Singapore)
- Africa Telecom 1994 (Cairo)
- Telecom 95 (Geneva)
- Americas Telecom 1996 (Rio)
- Interactive 97(Geneva)
- Asia Telecom 1997 (Singapore)
- Africa Telecom 1998 (Johannesburg)
- Telecom 99 (Geneva)
- ITU Telecom Asia 2000 (Hong Kong)
- ITU Telecom Americas 2000 (Rio)
- ITU Telecom Africa 2001 (Johannesburg)
- ITU Telecom Asia 2002 (Hong Kong)
- ITU Telecom Americas 2003 (Buenos Aires)
- ITU Telecom World 2003 (Geneva)
- ITU Telecom Africa 2004 (Cairo)
- ITU Telecom Asia 2004 (Busan)
- ITU Telecom Americas 2005 (Bahia)
- ITU Telecom World 2006ITU Telecom World 2006ITU Telecom World 2006 was a large-scale convention and exhibition hosted by Hong Kong, on 4 December-8 December 2006 at the AsiaWorld-Expo in Hong Kong...
(Hong Kong) - ITU Telecom Asia 2008 (Bangkok)
- ITU Telecom Africa 2008 (Cairo)
- ITU Telecom World 2009 (Geneva)
- ITU Telecom World 2011 (Geneva)
ITU Telecom Board
- Hamadoun TouréHamadoun TouréDr. Hamadoun Touré of Mali has been Secretary General of the International Telecommunication Union , the specialized agency of the United Nations dedicated to information and communication technologies , since 2007. He was re-elected for a second four-year term in 2010...
(Secretary-General, ITUInternational Telecommunication UnionThe International Telecommunication Union is the specialized agency of the United Nations which is responsible for information and communication technologies...
) - Sanjiv AhujaSanjiv AhujaSanjiv Ahuja is currently Chairman and CEO of LightSquared a company that is developing a wholesale-only nationwide 4G LTE Long Term Evolution wireless broadband communications network integrated with satellite coverage. The company is the result of Harbinger Capital Partners acquisition in March,...
(Chairman & CEO, AugereAugereAugere is a wireless broadband business founded in 2007. It is headed by the former CEO of Orange, Sanjiv Ahuja. It has a mission to provide 'broadband for all' and is working to bring available, affordable and accessible broadband internet services to under-served communities worldwideAugere has...
) - Mick Buckley (President & CEO, CNBC EuropeCNBC EuropeCNBC Europe is a business and financial news television channel, the pan-European sister station of CNBC. The network is owned and operated by NBC Universal and headquartered in London, where it shares the Adrian Smith-designed 10 Fleet Place building with Dow Jones...
) - Robert G. Conway (CEO and Member of the Board, GSM AssociationGSM AssociationThe GSM Association is an association of mobile operators and related companies devoted to supporting the standardizing, deployment and promotion of the GSM mobile telephone system...
) - Craig Ehrlich (Chairman, Novare Technologies)
- Reza Jafari (Chairman and CEO, e-Development International)
- Sunil Bharti Mittal (Chairman and Group CEO, Bharti Enterprise)
- Jay Naidoo (Chairman, J&J Group Development Trust)
- Christian Salbaing (Deputy Chairperson, Hutchison European Telecommunications Sàrl)
- Sheikh Abdulla bin Mohammed bin Saud Al -Thani (Chairperson of the Board, Qatar Telecom (Q-Tel))
- Naguib Sawiris (Chairman and CEO, Orascom Telecom HoldingOrascom Telecom HoldingOrascom Telecom Holding S.A.E. is a leading international telecommunications company operating GSM networks in the Middle East, Africa, Canada and Asia. It started its operations in Egypt by launching the first egyptian mobile operator in 1998, ....
) - Carsten Schloter (CEO, Swisscom SASwisscomSwisscom AG is a major telecommunications provider in Switzerland. Along with Swiss Post, it is a successor company to the former state-owned PTT. Its headquarters are located at Worblaufen near Bern...
) - Grant Seiffert (President, Telecommunications Industry AssociationTelecommunications Industry AssociationThe Telecommunications Industry Association is accredited by the American National Standards Institute to develop voluntary, consensus-based industry standards for a wide variety of ICT products, and currently represents nearly 400 companies...
(TIA)) - Jianzhou WangWang JianzhouWang Jianzhou , is the current Chairman of China Mobile.-Biography:Wang did his undergraduate and postgraduate studies both at Zhejiang University . Wang received a master degree of industrial management from ZJU in 1985...
(Chairperson & CEO, China MobileChina MobileChina Mobile Limited is a Chinese state-owned telecommunication company that provides mobile voice and multimedia services through its nationwide mobile telecommunications network, the largest of its kind in the world...
) - Ryuji Yamada (President & CEO, NTT DoCoMoNTT DoCoMois the predominant mobile phone operator in Japan. The name is officially an abbreviation of the phrase, "do communications over the mobile network", and is also from a compound word dokomo, meaning "everywhere" in Japanese. Docomo provides phone, video phone , i-mode , and mail services...
) - Houlin Zhao (Deputy Secretary-General, ITUInternational Telecommunication UnionThe International Telecommunication Union is the specialized agency of the United Nations which is responsible for information and communication technologies...
)