Monday, 10 May 2021

17:00 - 17:20
GMT+2
Welcome 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

17:20 - 17:30
GMT+2
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

Presentation : GSR-21 Best Practice Guidelines Consultation
Biography

Panelist
Mr Rodrigo Robles
Program Officer, Regional Office Brasilia
International Telecommunication Union

Presentation : GSR-21 Best Practice Guidelines Consultation
Biography

17:30 - 18:40
GMT+2
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

Presentation : Collaborative Regulation for Inclusive Connectivity
Biography

Panelist
Mr Carlos A. Bello Hernández
ITU Expert

Presentation : 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

18:40 - 20:00
GMT+2
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)

Presentation : 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

Presentation : 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

Presentation : 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)

Presentation : Caribbean Telecommunications Union
Ms Jane Coffin
ISOC

Biography
Mr Lester Benito García
Facebook

Biography

Tuesday, 11 May 2021

17:00 - 18:30
GMT+2
RED Session 1: Incentives to foster affordable ICT services by promoting investment for meaningful connectivity

18:30 - 19:50
GMT+2
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

Presentation : 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

Presentation : 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)

Presentation : The role of economic regulation in facilitating SGDs – infrastructure sharing, examples of cooperative agreements, modalities of IXP governance
Biography

19:50 - 20:00
GMT+2
Closing

Summary of discussion and way forward

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