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Azerbaijan to attend ITU Telecom World 2009

02 October 2009 16:36 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Aynur Veliyeva â€“ APA-Economics. Azerbaijanâ€™s Minister of Communications and Information Technologies Ali Abbasov will lead a delegation to ITU Telecom World-2009 in Geneva from October 5-9.

Mushfig Amirov, Press secretary of the Ministry, said the delegation will include 80 representatives from the government agencies and the private sector.

With the world in the grip of an unprecedented financial crisis and economic slowdown, ITU TELECOM WORLD 2009 remains a unique networking platform for the ICT industry as well as top-level policy-makers and regulators to address the issues at hand and seek a way forward.

Heads of State and Government, Ministers, regulators and industry leaders are expected to seek solutions to inject new vigour in the ICT sector, which has been the powerhouse of economic growth worldwide. The ICT sector continues to be seen as the catalyst to stimulate growth in the other sectors as well.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who will be attending ITU TELECOM WORLD 2009, has called for governments and industry not to lose sight of the global challenges of our times - meeting the development goals, mitigating climate change, building a green economy - while putting in place national stimulus packages. ITU Secretary-General Hamadoun Tourà¹‰ said that the ICT industry and governments must continue to invest in infrastructure and the roll out of cost-effective services as a means to stabilize the sector.

ITU TELECOM WORLD 2009 will provide the venue for a strategic dialogue between industry and government to discuss the key elements of investment in communications infrastructure and the new and changing roles of both industry and government. It will offer an opportunity to Connect Minds by focusing on the impact of the financial crisis. And it will build crossover synergies between governments, policy-makers and industry leaders overseeing the broader objectives of achieving an economic turn around, on the one hand, and the commercial ICT showcase - a one-stop shop for a broad cross-section of state-of-the-art products, applications and services, on the other.
ITU TELECOM WORLD 2009 will feature a dynamic and truly global Exhibition that will showcase leading edge technologies and applications. However, with several companies experiencing difficulties, some exhibitors have shied away from participating at trade shows this year. This is true not only for the ICT industry, but across all segments of the world economy. In refocusing ITU TELECOM WORLD 2009 to adjust strategically to the current situation, ITU has called upon governments to intervene. As part of stimulus packages being unveiled globally, a number of national pavilions will provide the platform for the ICT industry from around the world to participate in ITU TELECOM WORLD 2009, bringing a new flavour to this venerable ICT showcase. Alongside, thematic pavilions will explore the ICT applications and key themes central to our global wellbeing: health, education and climate change.