III Regular CITEL Assembly and XI Meeting of COM/CITEL 
(Inter-American Telecommunication Commission)

Tercera Asamblea Ordinaria de la CITEL
(Comisión Interamericana de Telecomunicaciones)
  Washington, DC from 12 to 16 August, 2002.

"The Quebec summit determined that the Mutual Recognition Agreement (MRA) has a high priority and that CITEL should work to encourage states to adopt the agreement, which is in itself interesting.  It establishes, say, a facilitation process that allows countries that export equipment to produce them faster and cheaper. The exporting country will manufacture products that conform with the technical requirements of the importing country. This not only create opportunities to the countries with technology, but also for developing nations, because every product made in a telecom industrial park can be installed quicker and more economically because of less bureaucracy in all local markets."
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CITEL is an Unusual and  Unique Example of Effective Integration in the Hemisphere of our Governments and the Private Sector
Remarks by Ambassador Luigi Einaudi, Assistant Secretary General of the OAS  

"The Plan of Action of Quito is the initial step in the implementation of the Agenda for Connectivity.  With it, CITEL has provided OAS member states with a set of regional strategies to enable all the people of the Americas to develop the tools to access and share knowledge that will allow them to participate more fully in the Information Age."

Remarks by Mr. Marcelo Kohan, Chair of the III CITEL Assembly and Secretary of Communications of Argentina

"...the activities of CITEL which are so important to the economic growth of all the countries of the Americas and that his country was pleased to accept the leadership of CITEL for the next four years."  (read full text)

Yoshio Utsumi, Secretary-General
International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
"There is a need to view the telecommunications market from a global perspective. Last year, some 60 million new fixed-line subscribers, 140 million new Internet users and some 200 million new mobile subscribers were added around the globe. But the areas of growth were not North America, Europe or the developed world, but rather the developing regions, such as Latin America and the Caribbean. In those countries, universal service is still a long way from being achieved."
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Angela Montoya Holguín
ex-Ministro de Comunicaciones de Colombia
ex-Presidenta del CCP I

"...es fundamental la orientación del trabajo aquí, en la medida en que reitera la importancia de la conquista de las nuevas tecnologías de la información como herramientas que verdaderamente le aporten al bienestar y la prosperidad en la vida cotidiana de las personas." 
Libro de Teleducación (Ms Word - 23Mb)
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Teleducación en las Americas


Hamadoun I. Touré, Director
Telecommunication Development Bureau (BDT)
International Telecommunications Union (ITU)

"If education is the key to economic and social development, then tele-education is the key to bringing that development to everyone, and not only to urban and other privileged areas."
Book of Tele-Education in the Americas (Ms Word - 23Mb)

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Tele-Education in the Americas