An ITU Regional Development Forum, focused in 2008 on “Bridging the ICT standardization gap in developing countries” and followed by the Americas region WTSA-08 Preparatory Meeting, will take place at the Anatel (National Telecommunications Agency of Brazil) headquarters in Brasilia, Brazil, from 19 to 20 May 2008 and from 21 to 22 May 2008, respectively, at the kind invitation of Anatel. Please do your registration on line here.

These events will be followed by a one-day meeting of the Rapporteur Group of the Permanent Consultative Committee I: Telecommunications (PCC.I) of the Inter-American Telecommunication Commission (CITEL) responsible for the preparation of common proposals for WTSA-08. This meeting will open at 9:00 hours on May 23 2008 at the same venue of the above mentioned events.

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By ANTEL-Uruguay
The CEIBAL Plan is an initiative of the Office of the President of the Eastern Republic of Uruguay.  The aim is that, in 2009, every teacher and every pupil in the public schools should have a portable computer.  

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By Oscar Avellaneda and Lewis Robart, Industry Canada
Security and trust play key roles in enabling the emerging global information society. Identity management, a cornerstone of establishing trust in the evolving Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) infrastructure, is necessary to control access to services and infrastructures, to protect personal information, to perform online transactions, and to comply with legal and regulatory requirements. A diverse set of identity management (IdM) solutions existing for specific market segments and perspectives. Many of these solutions are highly distributed and autonomous, resulting in a need to establish a trusted, global, and interoperable IdM capability.

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By Telarix, Inc.
Global telecommunications carriers create billions of operational transactions - business events and service records - every day. Whether it’s fixed or mobile, in-country or across the world, the telecommunications carriers are, in effect, huge transaction companies that must sort through every call record, termination charge, tariff change, and switch record in order to smoothly and efficiently interconnect the world’s communications. When interconnect represents 40 to 60 percent of gross margin for a typical carrier, the failure to quickly and correctly process, analyze, and respond to ever-changing rates, routes, and regional requirements can very often be the key difference between profitability and loss for a carrier.

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By Fernando Fontán, ANTEL-Uruguay
IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) is the first architecture of services completely convergent and standardized. These characteristics have made IMS as the basis of all multimedia services in nearly all pertinent telecommunications technologies. IMS is also the most standard architecture for the development of Next Generation Networks. It is the communications architecture of control that will possibly substitute the softswitch.

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By Carol Dolinkas, Coordinator of Human Development of CITEL
Below, please find attached the calendar of OAS/CITEL scholarships for Telecommunication training in the Americas’ region for 2008. Please check the CITEL web site for the announcements.

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On April 29, the National Telecommunication Agency (Anatel) and the Personal Mobile Service (SMP) providers signed, at Anatel headquarters, in Brasilia, the Licensing Terms and Conditions for the implementation of Third Generation (3G) services.  T(ANATEL, 29 April 2008)

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On May 2, 2008, the Ministry of Communications will publish the second draft of the terms and conditions for commercial broadcasting licensing in 59 municipalities of 31 of the country’s departments.  (Ministry of Communications, 23 April 2008)

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The National Telecommunication Agency (Anatel) on April 22 made available for contributions from the public the draft Regulations on Monitoring and Oversight of Universal Service/Access Obligations, whose purpose is to establish criteria and procedures for overseeing and monitoring fulfillment of the targets of the fixed telephony General Universal Service/Access Target Plan (PGMU).  Said document would amend Resolution No. 280, by which are adopted the Regulations for Declaration of Fulfillment of Universal Service/Access Obligations. (ANATEL, 22 April 2008)

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The Colombian government has issued Decree 1151 of April 14, 2008, by which are established the general E-Government Strategy guidelines, which are mandatory for Colombian government agencies and entities. (Ministry of Communications, 21 April 2008)

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The National Telecommunications Commission (CONATEL) of HONDURAS invites all national and foreign companies interested in participate in the process of International Public Tender CNT-LI-01/2008, with financing of funds of the budget 2008, for the supply, in the modality of key in hand, of a System of Monitoring and Spectrum Management (the first phase), composed for:

1. Management System of Radio Spectrum and automation processes of CONATEL, located in the city of Tegucigalpa.
2. One main monitoring fixed station in the city of Tegucigalpa, Francisco Morazan.
3. One remote monitoring fixed station in the city of San Pedro Sula, Cortes.
4. Four (4) mobile monitoring stations.
5. Three (3) all-terrain vehicles (type pick up) for inspection task.
6. Portable equipment for monitoring of the radio spectrum.
(CONATEL, 21 April 2008)

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The Ministry of Communications has presented for comment to public broadcasting licensees and the general public the Public Radio Broadcasting Policy document. (Ministry of Communications, 21 April 2008)

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The General Universal Service/Access Target Plan (PGMU) for Fixed Switched Telephony (STFC) has been amended to establish that urban telecommunication poles (PSTs) would be replaced by backhaul (telecommunication network infrastructure). With this amendment, fixed telephony licensees must, by December 2010, bring the broadband network to all Brazilian municipal headquarters. (ANATEL, 7 April 2008)

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On April 11, 2008 American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) became an associate member of PCC.I.

The American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) is the nonprofit corporation that distributes Internet number resources, including Internet Protocol (IP) addresses and Autonomous System Numbers (ASNs), to Canada, many Caribbean and North Atlantic countries, and the United States.
 
Headquartered in Chantilly, Virginia, USA, ARIN is one of five Regional Internet Registries that: provides services related to the technical coordination and management of Internet number resources; participates in the global Internet community; and facilitates policy development by its members and the stakeholders in its region.
 

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ITU Regional Development Forum 2008: “Bridging the ICT standardization gap in developing countries”, WTSA-08 Preparatory Meeting for the Americas region, meeting of the PCC.I Rapporteur Group to prepare WTSA-08

CEIBAL Project

Identity Management

Global Carrier Interconnection Challenges

Convergence of fixed / mobile through IMS

Calendar of OAS/CITEL scholarships for Telecommunication training in the Americas’ region for 2008