The Secretary-General, after consulting the Director of BDT, sends an invitation to the administration of each Member State, to the ITU-D Sector Members, to the organizations and institutions referred to in the relevant provisions of Article 25 of the ITU Convention as well as to Palestine in accordance with Resolution 99 (Rev. Antalya, 2006).

Member State delegations attending world telecommunication development conferences do not need to present credentials. However, the Director of BDT must be informed about the intention to send a delegation, with the names and functions of all delegation members (N°. 339 of the ITU Convention).

To ensure that the necessary arrangements can be made in a timely fashion, Member States and Sector Members wishing to participate in the World Telecommunication Development Conference and organizations, agencies and other entities that are eligible to attend as observers under Article 25 of the ITU Convention or Resolution 99 (Rev. Antalya, 2006) are requested to pre-register, starting on 15 January 2010.

Pre-registration will be carried out exclusively online through focal points designated by each administration and entity entitled to participate in the Conference.

Pre-registration will start on 15 January 2010 and will be carried out exclusively online through focal points designated by each administration and entity entitled to participate in the Conference. Onsite registration will start as from 20 May 2010.

The role of Focal points is to handle registration formalities for their respective organizations and entities. The list of Focal Points can be accessed, using a TIES log-in, at this address.

The World Telecommunication Development Conference will set up committees to conduct its work. The draft structure of the Conference is to be found in Annex 2, along with suggested terms of reference for the committees and for the Working Group of the Plenary.

Owing to the limited duration of WTDC-10 and the time constraints imposed by the need for translation into six languages, contributions to the work of the Conference should reach the secretariat as soon as possible. It will not be possible to guarantee, on time for the Conference, the translation of contributions submitted after the deadline of 26 February 2010, i.e. three months prior to the opening of WTDC-10.

In order to consolidate the various contributions submitted in a way that lends itself to the elaboration of a solid, cohesive and powerful package consisting of inter-related and mutually reinforcing components, a template has been developed and can be found at www.itu.int/ITU-D/conferences/wtdc/documents/template.html.

In addition to providing a common approach to submit contributions, the template will also provide a fast-track to the processing of the input documents by reducing the reformatting of the contributions. Contributions not submitted on this template may therefore result in delays in their processing and posting.

In accordance with N°. 42 of the General Rules of Conferences, Assemblies and Meetings of the Union, documents containing more than one contribution should be submitted with a number to identify each contribution along with the topic of the contribution. The secretariat will annotate each contribution with index numbers composed as follows:

ABC/25/3

where ABC is the symbol of the country/entity that is the author of the contribution, 25 is the number of the document in which the contribution will be published and 3 is the serial number of the proposal within that document. The three-letter code and document number will be included by the Secretariat. However, the numbering of each contribution will be assigned by the online system when submitting each contribution.

On the basis of the proposals and contributions received by the deadline, BDT will allocate the documents based on the topics identified by the submitting administration/entity in order to facilitate the discussions at WTDC-10.

Owing to the limited duration of the Conference, substantive debate should take precedence over the systematic presentation of individual contributions. For ease of referencing during the discussions, the secretariat will prepare a temporary document listing all the proposals and contributions with cross-references to the different items on the agenda. Sector Members are strongly encouraged not to submit new contributions during the Conference

The opening ceremony will take place on 24 May 2010. It will be preceded by a meeting of heads of delegation.