Monday
Tuesday
Welcome Session
17:00 - 17:20 GMT+2Best Practices Guidelines (BPG) consultation: Regulatory uplift for financing digital infrastructure, access and use
17:20 - 17:30 GMT+2GSR Roundtable 1: Setting the Scene: Toward Collaborative 5th Generation Regulation
17:30 - 18:40 GMT+2GSR Roundtable 2: Regulatory and Economic policies and strategies for ICT development in the Americas Region – COVID-19 implications
18:40 - 20:00 GMT+2Welcome Session | |
Introduction | |
Mrs Sofie Maddens Head of Regulatory and Market Environment Division, Telecommunication Development Bureau International Telecommunication Union Biography | |
Speaker | |
Mr Stephen Bereaux Deputy Director of the Telecommunication Development Bureau (BDT) International Telecommunication Union Biography | |
H.E Josué Edmundo Lemus Cifuentes Ministro Ministerio de Comunicaciones, Infraestructura y vivienda Guatemala | |
Mr Rodolfo José Letona Montoya Viceministro de Comunicaciones Ministerio de Comunicaciones, Infraestructura y vivienda Guatemala Biography | |
Mr Marco Antonio Baten Superintendente de Telecomunicaciones Superintendencia de Telecomunicaciones (SIT) Guatemala Biography | |
Ms Mercy Wanjau GSR Chair and Acting Director General Communications Authority of Kenya (CA Kenya) Kenya Biography |
Best Practices Guidelines (BPG) consultation: Regulatory uplift for financing digital infrastructure, access and use | |
Keynote presentation: GSR-21 Best Practices Guidelines (BPG) consultation | |
Presentation | |
Ms Carmen Prado-Wagner Senior Officer, Regulatory and Market Environment Division, Telecommunication Development Bureau International Telecommunication Union GSR-21 Best Practice Guidelines Consultation | Biography | |
Panelist | |
Mr Rodrigo Robles Program Officer, Regional Office Brasilia International Telecommunication Union GSR-21 Best Practice Guidelines Consultation | Biography |
GSR Roundtable 1: Setting the Scene: Toward Collaborative 5th Generation Regulation | |
Keynote presentation: Collaborative Regulation in the Americas – presentation of G5 Benchmark and case studies | |
Moderator | |
Ms Youlia Lozanova Senior Programme Officer, Regulatory and Market Environment Division, Telecommunication Development Bureau International Telecommunication Union Biography | |
Presentation | |
Mrs Sofie Maddens Head, Regulatory and Market Environment Division, Telecommunication Development Bureau International Telecommunication Union Collaborative Regulation for Inclusive Connectivity | Biography | |
Panelist | |
Mr Carlos A. Bello Hernández ITU Expert Toward Collaborative 5th Generation Regulation | Biography | |
Mr Ramiro Camacho Castillo Comisionado Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones (IFT) Mexico Biography | |
Mr Carlos Lugo Comisionado de la Sesión de Comisión de Comunicaciones Comisión de Regulación de Comunicaciones (CRC) Colombia Biography | |
Mr Fabio Casotti Head of Wholesale Relations Division, Competition Superintendence National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) Brazil Biography |
GSR Roundtable 2: Regulatory and Economic policies and strategies for ICT development in the Americas Region – COVID-19 implications | |
Keynote Presentation: Pandemic in the Internet Age: From second wave to new normal, recovery, adaptation, and resilience | |
Moderator | |
Mr Rodrigo Robles Program Officer, Regional Office Brasilia International Telecommunication Union Biography | |
Panelist | |
Mr Scott Minehane ITU Expert Windsor Place Consulting (WPC) Pandemic in the Internet Age: From second wave to new normal, recovery, adaptation and resilience | Biography | |
Mr Raul Katz Director of Business Strategy Research Columbia Institute for Tele-Information La industria de las telecomunicaciones en el post-COVID 19 | Biography | |
Mr Riaz Boodram Generation Connect – Americas Youth Group Trinidad and Tobago Biography | |
Mr Marco Vílchez Subgerente de Regulación de la Dirección de Política Regulatoria y Competencia Organismo Supervisor de Inversión Privada en Telecomunicaciones (OSIPTEL) Peru Perspectivas y regulación de las TIC frente al COVID-19 en el Perú | Biography | |
Mr Selby Wilson Telecommunications Strategist and Regulatory Expert Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU) Caribbean Telecommunications Union | |
Ms Jane Coffin ISOC Biography | |
Mr Lester Benito García Biography |
RED Session 1: Incentives to foster affordable ICT services by promoting investment for meaningful connectivity
17:00 - 18:30 GMT+2RED Session 2: Economic and financial aspects in the digital ecosystem - Effective partnerships for advancing connectivity and achieving the SDGs
18:30 - 19:50 GMT+2Closing
19:50 - 20:00 GMT+2RED Session 1: Incentives to foster affordable ICT services by promoting investment for meaningful connectivity | |
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Moderator | |
Mrs Ingrid García Coordinadora Asuntos Internacionales Superintendencia de Telecomunicaciones (SIT) Guatemala Biography | |
Panelist | |
Mr Víctor Manuel Mayorga ITU Expert La cobertura de las necesidades básicas de comunicaciones de los grupos de ingresos más bajos de América Latina a través de servicios TIC empaquetados: La brecha social se amplía. | Biography | |
Mr Juan Carlos Castro Jefe del Departamento de Economía de las Telecomunicaciones Superintendencia General de Electricidad y Telecomunicaciones (SIGET) El Salvador Evolución de planes pospago de datos y minutos en El Salvador, Servicio Móvil (2018 -2021) | Biography | |
Mr Cristhian Lizcano ITU Expert Obligaciones de Conectividad – Asignación de Espectro | Biography | |
Mrs Maryleana Méndez Presidente Asociación Interamericana de Empresas de Telecomunicaciones (ASIET) Oportunidades y retos para el fortalecimiento de la conectividad en la región: hacia una agenda viable en el marco de la recuperación económica | Biography | |
Mr Ryan Johnson Senior Director, Global Market Access & Government Affairs Viasat, Inc. Conectividad asequible en las Américas | Biography | |
Mr Yacine Khelladi Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI) Updates on the adoption and measurement of the Meaningful Connectivity targets | Biography |
RED Session 2: Economic and financial aspects in the digital ecosystem - Effective partnerships for advancing connectivity and achieving the SDGs | |
Session organized in coordination with the ITU-D Study Group 1 Question 4/1 on Economic policies and methods of determining the costs of services related to national telecommunication/ICT networks, including Next Generation Networks (NGN) | |
Moderator | |
Ms Carmen Prado-Wagner Senior Officer, Regulatory and Market Environment Division, Telecommunication Development Bureau International Telecommunication Union Biography | |
Panelist | |
Mr Arseny Plossky Rapporteur Question 4/1, BDT Study Group 1 Russian Federation Economic policies and methods of determining the costs of services related to national telecommunication/ICT networks including NGN | Biography | |
Mr Jorge Martínez Axon Partners Group El trabajo de la UIT-D Q4/1 sobre costeo de servicios digitales y la importancia de las colaboraciones (Presentation in Spanish and English together) | Biography | |
Professor Emanuele Giovannetti Professor of Economics Anglia Ruskin University (Cambridge) The role of economic regulation in facilitating SGDs – infrastructure sharing, examples of cooperative agreements, modalities of IXP governance | Biography |
Closing | |
Summary of discussion and way forward | |
Panelist | |
Mr Bruno Ramos Director Regional, Oficina Regional de la UIT para las Américas International Telecommunication Union Biography | |
Mr Marco Antonio Baten Superintendente de Telecomunicaciones Superintendencia de Telecomunicaciones (SIT) Guatemala Biography |