RDF-ASP2020 (中文) RDF-ASP2020
Information and communications technology (ICT) are both a meta infrastructure and an enabler of socioeconomic development. The impact of ICT on financial, transport and trade facilitation infrastructure and services can encourage innovations and provide a basis for an expanded digital economy that can be harnessed to address longstanding problems of exclusion, the altered climate and the degraded environment.
Over the years Asia and the Pacific region continued its robust growth in providing ICT connectivity to huge population living in the region. While the socioeconomic benefits created by ICT have been widely recognized over the past decades, ICT connectivity has not reached everyone who would benefit from it.
Equitable information and communications technology (ICT) connectivity around the Asia and the Pacific region remains a development bottleneck as is a particular concern in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic which has accelerated digitalization trends and requires policy makers, development partners and investors to review their strategies, fiscal space and investment priorities.
Outlines of topics:
- Key Challenges on providing equitable ICT connectivity for ALL.
- Recommended interventions to make ICT services affordable to reduce socio-economic impact due to COVID-19
- Innovative partnership models to put plans into action.
| Ms Atsuko Okuda
Regional Director
for Asia and the Pacific
International Telecommunication Union
[Short bio]
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Mr Thomas E. Abell
Advisor SDCC and Chief of Digital Technology for Development
Asian Development Bank
[Short bio]
[Presentation]
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Mr. Jørgen C. Arentz Rostrup
Head of Telenor Group Asia
[Short bio]
[Presentation]
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Mr. Osamu Kamimura
Vice President and Head of Spectrum Policy Office, SoftBank Head of Global Spectrum Planning Department,
HAPSMobile
[Short bio]
[Presentation]
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Mr Bill Lan
Chief NBN Strategist
Huawei
[Short bio]
[Presentation]
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| Mr. George Samisoni President Pacific Islands Telecommunications Association and CEO FINTEL
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