Global Industry Leaders Forum (GILF) 2010

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Background

The next Global Industry Leaders Forum (GILF) will be held on Tuesday, 9 November 2010 at the Meridien President Hotel in Dakar, Senegal. GILF will take place just prior to the Global Symposium for Regulators (GSR), from 10-12 November 2010, at the same venue. GILF participants are invited to attend the first day of the GSR.

GILF and GSR are being organized by the ITU Telecommunication Development Bureau in collaboration with the Regulatory Authority for Telecommunications and Post of Senegal.

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Objective

The GILF is an annual event which provides a neutral platform for ITU-D Sector Members to share their views with policy makers and regulators on major issues facing the ICT sector, with a particular emphasis on reducing barriers to ICT investment in developing and least developed countries.

Programme

The GILF Programme has been designed to complement and reinforce that of the GSR. The shared overall theme of this year’s GILF and GSR will be “Enabling Tomorrow’s Digital World.”

This year’s GILF Programme has been organized around two main thematic sessions: 1) Securing a Wireless Future; and, 2) Creating a “Light Touch” Policy and Regulatory Environment, followed by a session to review GILF-10 Recommendations. The format will favour interactive debates and panel discussions rather than formal presentations.

ITU-D Sector Members are encouraged to submit draft recommendations relevant to the GILF themes. These inputs will be used to inform session moderators of both GILF and GSR, and will be submitted for consideration by policy-makers and regulators participating in GSR.