Dr. Seo Bo-Hyun of International Cooperation Division at KISDI was elected as the Vice Chair of the Regional Preparatory Meeting for the ITU World Telecommunication Development Conference 2014 (WTDC-14), which will be held in Egypt in coming 2014, at the Asia Pacific Telecommunity (APT) meeting in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on May 3. As a vice chair, Dr. Seo presided over the recent APT Preparatory Meeting and his term will continue for one year.
The WTDC-14 is a quadrennial international forum where government delegations and related groups from 190 ITU member countries will gather and discuss major agendas and strategies for the development of telecommunications and ICTs over the next four-year period. The main agendas include international cooperation programs, new technologies such as broadband and ways to bridge regional digital divide.
Before the APT meeting, the four-day ITU Regional Development Forum for the Asia-Pacific Region was held between 29 April and 2 May, and attended by Dr. Sok An, Deputy Prime Minister of Cambodia, Dr. Hamadoun I. Touré, Secretary-General and other executives from the ITU.
Dr. Seo, who had served as the chairman of a special committee organized to set ITU development goals for the next four years (2014-2018), was presented a plague of appreciation from the Cambodian government for his contribution.
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※ WTDC-14 Regional Preparatory Meeting for Asia and the Pacific: The WTDC-14 Regional Preparatory Meeting (RPM) for Asia and the Pacific consists of the RPM directly linked to the ITU and the RPM for the Asia-Pacific region led by the APT. Based on the decisions made at the RPM in Cambodia last week, the leadership and working groups for the Preparatory Meeting for WTDC-14 were organized at the APT meeting held on March 3. Up until the WTDC-14, they will be dealing with the Asia-Pacific Regional Initiatives, global programs and other research priorities on main agendas that will be discussed at the WTDC-14 and pursued for the next four-year period. The next round of the RPM for the region will be hosted by Australia in coming October.
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Contact: Kim Aeyeon, Specialist, International Cooperation Research Division (Tel: 02-570-4348)
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