Meet ITU’s next top elected officials: Cosmas Zavazava
By ITU News
“ITU is a critical organization, […] leading in terms of information and communication technology deployment, and also development of standards, spectrum, and also executing projects across the globe, which can change the entire game of socioeconomic development,” says Cosmas Zavazava, the next Director of ITU’s Telecommunication Development Bureau (BDT).
Zavazava was elected to his post on the ITU executive leadership team on 30 September at the 2022 Plenipotentiary Conference in Bucharest, Romania.
Closing the digital skills gap, making digital technologies and services affordable, and enabling governments to roll out those technologies and services are crucial global development challenges – and top priorities for Zavazava over the next four years.
ITU has the industry and private sector with it, enabling the organization to get them energized to invest in infrastructure and make a contribution in the area of connectivity, Zavazava adds.
After taking up his mandate on 1 January 2023, he wants to “implement impactful projects across the globe and make sure that the remaining 2.7 billion people are connected.”
Watch the full video interview:
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