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Dear Sir/Madam,
I have pleasure in inviting you to
participate, as observer, in the Regional preparatory
meeting for Africa (RPM-AFR) for the 2010 World
Telecommunication Development Conference (WTDC-10), to
be held in Kampala, Uganda, from 13 to 15 July 2009 at
the kind invitation of the Government of Uganda.
Regional preparatory meetings are
organized in response to Resolution 31 (Rev. Doha, 2006)
in a bid to achieve greater regional coordination and
engage Members in the WTDC process early on. They also
seek to identify issues, at the regional level, that
need to be addressed to foster the development of
telecommunications and of information technologies,
taking into account the expression of the pressing needs
facing the Member States and Sector Members of the
region.
The RPM-AFR is expected to draw up
recommendations on carefully selected top priority areas
identified as essential for the ICT development of the
countries of the region, within which Study Group
Questions, Programmes, Projects and Regional Initiatives
can be identified for consideration by WTDC‑10. To this
end, to facilitate effective preparations by the
Members, a very focused RPM-AFR agenda based on the
general framework provided by the preliminary draft
WTDC-10 agenda has been prepared and is found in
Annex I.
Registration will be made exclusively online at
www.itu.int/itu-d/conferences/rpm/2009/AFR/Registration.html.
Participants experiencing difficulties with their
online registration are invited to contact the ITU
Regional Office at
ITU-Addis@itu.int for assistance.
Practical information relating to the meeting will
shortly be available on that website.
The ITU regional and area offices
will work closely with participants in order to achieve
the expected output, based on priorities and
requirements while taking into account restraints and
limitations, in order to arrive at workable results.
With this approach, Members of the region are likely to
derive greater benefits through the achievements of the
very objectives they have set and priorities they have
identified.
I very much look forward to
fruitful discussions to ensure that the Action Plan to
be prepared by WTDC-10 is an effective and viable tool
to guide our work in the coming years to meet the needs
of countries of the Africa region based on the top
priorities Members of the region will have set.
Yours sincerely,
[Original signed]
Sami Al Basheer Al Morshid
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