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Enabling policy and regulatory environment
ITU-D Priorities
Enabling policy and regulatory environment
The focus of this priority is on fostering an enabling policy and regulatory environment conducive to sustainable telecommunication/ICT development that encourages investment in infrastructure and ICTs and increased adoption of telecommunications/ICTs.
This priority comprises key enablers that underpin ITU’s work to deliver on the connectivity and digital transformation priorities
Key Topics
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Emergency Telecommunications
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Network and Digital Infrastructure
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Digital Services and Applications
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Digital Innovation Ecosystems
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Policy and Regulation
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Statistics
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Capacity Development
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Cybersecurity
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ITU-D Study Groups
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Partnerships
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Mainstreaming the Needs of LDCs, LLDCs and SIDS
ICTs help the least developed countries (LDCs), landlocked developed countries (LLDCs), and small island developing states (SIDS), to address their specific development challenges. LDCs, LLDCs, and SIDS face a number of connectivity barriers: many LDCs have large land areas and rural populations, and are sparsely populated, which makes the roll-out of terrestrial communication infrastructure more difficult. LLDCs lack direct access to the sea and many SIDS have numerous islands and often face high communication costs.Learn more