India assumes chairmanship of world telecom body
28 Apr 2010
India has become the new chairman of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Council for the year 2010 and R N Jha, deputy director general of the department of telecommunication took over the rotating chairmanship from Ghana at a meeting in Geneva recently.
The council, which is ITU's governing body, comprises 46 member states.
The 2010 session of the council is particularly important, as this is the year of the ITU plenipotentiary conference in Mexico on 4-22 October, Jha said in his opening address as chairman.
The ITU plenipotentiary conference is the key event in which its members decide the future role of the organisation. This conference determines the ability of the organisations to influence and affect the development of information and communication technologies (ITC) worldwide.
The council at present is focusing on the 'World Telecommunication Development Conference" (WTDC-10) taking place in Hyderabad from 24 May-4 June 2010.
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