1. Ashish Narayan, Advisor, ITU Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific
Pacific ---Connecting the Unconnected--- ITU initiatives “ENHANCING PACIFIC CONNECTIVITY” November 5, 2008
Ashish Narayan,
Advisor, ITU Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific

2. Agenda
ITU “Vision and Strategy”
ITU Development Programs and Pacific
ITU Pacific Activities and Projects
Proposals and Partnership

3. Emergency Communication Global Cybersecurity Agenda
ITU Vision & Strategic Plan
Vision: By connecting the world and fulfilling everyone’s fundamental right to communicate, we strive to make the world a better and safer place.
ITU Initiatives
Maintain and extend international, regional, sub-regional cooperation
Assist in bridging the digital divide and promote global connectivity through implementation of WSIS goals and objectives
Widen the Union's membership – especially from the industry
Develop tools to safeguard networks
Continue to improve efficiency and effectiveness
Disseminate information and know-how of ICT
Promote the development of an enabling environment  
Emergency Communication
Connect the World
ITU
Initiatives
Global Cybersecurity Agenda
Capacity Building
Enabling Environment
Climate Change

4. ITU Development Programs and Pacific
World Telecommunication Development Conference Doha
Six Major Development Programs
Delivery Mechanisms
Program 1: Regulatory reform
Program 2:Technologies and telecom/ICT network development - Infrastructure
Program 3: E-strategies and ICT applications
Program 4: Economics & finance
Program 5: Human Resource Development
Program 6: Least Developed Countries, Small Island Developing States (SIDS), and Emergency Telecommunications
Seminars & Workshops
Direct Country Assistances
Through
PPP
Human Capacity Building
Trainings / Fellowships
Special Initiatives
Gender;
Children and Youth;
Indigenous peoples and communities;
Persons with disabilities;
Communities living in Remote/Underserved areas
Deployment of Infrastructure
Regional Initiatives
One of the five Asia Pacific Regional Initiatives focuses on the Pacific

5. International Connectivity
Pacific Connectivity
Delivery of secure, reliable and affordable ICT Services to all
requires
International Connectivity
National Connectivity
Affordability
together with the following enablers
Policy
Legislation
Capacity Building
Content
Cybersecurity
Emergency Communication
I also would like to draw your attention and active participation at the Asia-Pacific Centres of Excellence, which will be revitalized and set up in five main areas such as:
Iran for spectrum monitoring,
Pakistan for policy and regulation,
Thailand for business management,
Republic of Korea for technology awareness, and
Malaysia for rural ICT development.
These will be implemented in close collaboration between the Centres and other ITU State and Sector Members in our region from this year onwards.
Also, our new Director of Standardization Sector agreed to utilize the Asia-Pacific Centres of Excellences for the training on standardizations in this region – i.e., this will be truly one way of close collaborations between ITU-T and ITU-D Sector.
Regulation

6. National and International Connectivity
Submarine Cable vis-à-vis Satellite
Creating the right enablers to finance affordable connectivity
International connectivity needs to be aligned with national connectivity
Most of the recent telecommunications growth in the Pacific Island countries has been experienced on narrowband networks
For Broadband services, existing networks (fixed and mobile) would need to be upgraded for smooth migration to the Next Generation Networks (NGN)
On fixed side, most of the broadband is provided using DSL, Cable TV or Fibre To The Home (FTTH)
Appropriate policies and regulation are necessary
to drive the demand (which would reduce the cost) through promoting ICT content and services
to encourage network penetration in remote areas through network roll out. A number of regulatory enablers including licensing, spectrum, Universal Service policies are necessary for the purpose
to enable community access to ICT services using various means including Multipurpose Community Telecentres

7. Mobile Technology Trend
Present Status in Pacific

8. ITU Pacific Activities [2007]
Policy-Regulation
APT/ITU/PITA Joint Regulatory Forum, Fiji (2006)
Workshops
APT/ITU/PITA workshop on “Principles of Cyber Legislation”, NZ
Kiribati (Licensing, Internet Exchange)
Papua New Guinea (Numbering, Interconnection)
Marshall Islands (e-Governance)
Direct Assistances
Rural/outer island Communication Development in Tonga, Marshall Islands, Papua New Guinea, Nauru
Multi-purpose Community Telecentres establishment in Solomon Islands, Samoa
Concentrated Assistance to SIDS
I also would like to draw your attention and active participation at the Asia-Pacific Centres of Excellence, which will be revitalized and set up in five main areas such as:
Iran for spectrum monitoring,
Pakistan for policy and regulation,
Thailand for business management,
Republic of Korea for technology awareness, and
Malaysia for rural ICT development.
These will be implemented in close collaboration between the Centres and other ITU State and Sector Members in our region from this year onwards.
Also, our new Director of Standardization Sector agreed to utilize the Asia-Pacific Centres of Excellences for the training on standardizations in this region – i.e., this will be truly one way of close collaborations between ITU-T and ITU-D Sector.
Spectrum, Regulation, Human Resources, Disaster Communication etc.
Capacity Building
ITU works closely with partners such as PITA, PIFS, APT, SPC, The World Bank, UNESCAP for effective delivery

9. ITU Pacific Activities [2008]
Policy-Regulation
Regional Workshop on Cybersecurity
Workshops
ITU/APT/PITA Regional Forum on Next Generation Telecommunications in the Pacific
Kiribati (Cost Modeling)
Papua New Guinea (Numbering, Interconnection)
Samoa (Spectrum Management)
Vanuatu (Spectrum Management)
Direct Assistances
Concentrated Assistance to SIDS
Rural/outer island Communication Development in Tonga, Marshall Islands, Papua New Guinea, Nauru
I also would like to draw your attention and active participation at the Asia-Pacific Centres of Excellence, which will be revitalized and set up in five main areas such as:
Iran for spectrum monitoring,
Pakistan for policy and regulation,
Thailand for business management,
Republic of Korea for technology awareness, and
Malaysia for rural ICT development.
These will be implemented in close collaboration between the Centres and other ITU State and Sector Members in our region from this year onwards.
Also, our new Director of Standardization Sector agreed to utilize the Asia-Pacific Centres of Excellences for the training on standardizations in this region – i.e., this will be truly one way of close collaborations between ITU-T and ITU-D Sector.
Capacity Building
NGN, Human Resources, CoE Courses
ITU works closely with partners such as PITA, PIFS, APT, SPC, The World Bank, UNESCAP for effective delivery

10. ICT Development (Malaysia)
ITU Asia-Pacific Regional Capacity Building
Spectrum Management
(Iran)
Policy
&
Regulation
(Pakistan)
Business Management
(Thailand)
Technology Awareness
(Rep. of Korea)
Rural
ICT Development (Malaysia)
A number of Pacific Island Countries use the Asia Pacific CoE network for their training needs. The trainings are now being further extended to the Pacific in partnership with PITA. ITU EC Project on capacity building to start soon.
I also would like to draw your attention and active participation at the Asia-Pacific Centres of Excellence, which will be revitalized and set up in five main areas such as:
Iran for spectrum monitoring,
Pakistan for policy and regulation,
Thailand for business management,
Republic of Korea for technology awareness, and
Malaysia for rural ICT development.
These will be implemented in close collaboration between the Centres and other ITU State and Sector Members in our region from this year onwards.
Also, our new Director of Standardization Sector agreed to utilize the Asia-Pacific Centres of Excellences for the training on standardizations in this region – i.e., this will be truly one way of close collaborations between ITU-T and ITU-D Sector.

11. ITU Key Partnership Projects in the Pacific
Government of Australia
Policy & Regulatory Assistance in Asia and the Pacific (2008/09)
ICT Policy & Regulatory Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific Region and addressing the unique ICT needs of the Pacific Island Countries (2007/08)
Telecommunication/ICT Governance in the Asia-Pacific Region (2006/08)
Effective Use of Telecommunications/ICT in Disaster Management
Assistance for the Establishment of Sector Governance in Telecommunications in East Timor
European Commission
Capacity Building and ICT Policy, Regulatory and Legislative Frameworks Support for Pacific Island States
Andorra
Rural/outer island communication development in Tonga, Marshall Islands, Papua New Guinea and Nauru

12. Pacific ICT Minister’s FORUM
ITU “PACIFIC ICT MINISTER’S FORUM on Connecting the Unconnected” from Feb 2009 will be hosted by the Kingdom of Tonga and in joint organization with partners.
The Forum aims to lay down the action plans that would “connect the unconnected and all the Islands in the Pacific with affordable, ubiquitous, reliable and secure access by 2015” through:
Technology enabler: including optical fibre networks, satellite communications, wireless broadband technologies, adaptive mobile communications, and NGN;
Policy & regulation enabler: facilitating international and domestic connectivity and enabling market environment;
Human capacity building: ensuring human capacity to maintain, operate, and develop networks, services and content.

13. Proposals for Partnerships
ITU invites partners to work together towards this common goal for “Connecting the Unconnected in the Pacific” on collaborative and constructive manners in the following areas.
Project investments for Pacific Connectivity i.e. domestic and international connectivity through various technology options
Human capacity building for policy makers, telecom regulators, operators, and users
ICT service, application, and content development
Safeguarding networks and people through effective Cybersecurity and emergency communications initiatives including climate change adaptation

14. Thank You
Recognizing the success from the Connect Africa Summit in 2007, The Connect Asia-Pacific Summit is envisaged to be organized in 2008 to showcase ICT development projects through PPP with potential partners and donors. The Summit would provide an excellent networking platform for leaders from Asia and the Pacific from the public, private and financial sectors to meet and forge new partnerships for the future.