Daily report: ITU Council 2019 – Day 8

This high-level report on the activities of Day 8, 19 June, of ITU Council 2019 includes:

  • Agreed dates for Plenipotentiary Conference 2022: 26 September – 14 October 2022
  • Continuing discussions on the ITU headquarters rebuilding project
  • Chair of Council urges Informal Group on CWG-Internet open consultation topic to try and reach consensus one last time

Daily report: ITU Council 2019 – Day 6

This high-level report on the activities of Day 6, 17 June, of ITU Council 2019 includes:

  • Informal Group on CWG-Internet concludes without any agreement on topics for future open consultations
  • Informal Working Group on WTPF-21 agrees on a theme, Policies for mobilizing new and emerging telecommunications/ICTs for sustainable development
  • ITU Telecom World 2020 to be held in Hanoi, September 2020

Daily report: ITU Council 2019 – Day 5

This high-level report on the activities of Day 5, 14 June, of ITU Council 2019 includes:

  • An update on discussions on the ITU headquarters rebuilding project
  • Entities that received exemption from paying Sector Member fees (including ICANN and CTO)
  • Conclusion of the work to develop Terms of Reference for the Expert Group on International Telecommunication Regulations

Daily report: ITU Council 2019 – Day 4

This high-level report on the activities of Day 4, 13 June, of ITU Council 2019 includes:

  • World Telecommunication Development Conference (WTDC) 2021 to be held in Addis Ababa
  • Information on the 7 informal consultation processes created to date, including one on a draft Council decision on conducting a general audit of ITU and its regional offices as a response to a case of fraud uncovered in a regional office

Daily report: ITU Council 2019 – Day 3

This high-level report on the activities of Day 3, 12 June, of ITU Council 2019 includes:

  • An update on the five informal processes underway by the end of Day 3 to resolve issues related to the CWG-Internet, WSIS, WTPF and the EG-ITRs
  • A brief summary of the ITU Secretariat’s overview of the remedial action they are taking after a case of fraud was uncovered at a regional ITU office

Daily report: ITU Council 2019 – Day 2

This high-level report for the Council’s activities on 12 June 2019 includes the following:

  • Overview of the two working groups created on WTPF-21 and ITRs
  • Decision on the theme for World Telecommunication and Information Society Day (WTISD) 2020
  • Decisions made in Plenary, as well as the first session of the Standing Committee for Administration and Management (ADM)

Day 1 report available here.

Daily report: ITU Council 2019 – Day 1

Attached is a very brief, high-level report on the activities of Day 1, 10 June, of ITU Council 2019. Included in the summary report:

  • Locations of ITU Plenipotentiary Conference 2022 and World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly 2020
  • Actions taken by Council on documents presented during the day, including on proposals to improve ITU Plenipotentiary processes and ethical principles for ITU election campaigns

Pre-meeting report: ITU Council 2019

Our small team at Nissaba is proud to release, just in time for the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Council 2019 meeting in Geneva that starts next week, a pre-meeting report summarising the main issues that will be up for discussion amongst ITU Member States.

Why are we doing this?

While the large ITU events, such as the Plenipotentiary Conference and the World Telecommunication Development Conference get all the headlines, it’s the less reported events such as ITU Council and Study Group meetings where most of the real work happens. What happens at Council, Council Working Group and Study Group meetings eventually moves up the chain of discussion and consensus-making until it eventually reaches the Plenipotentiary for consideration of all ITU Member States. If you want to influence discussions, or just understand what is likely to come up in the larger events down the track, you need to be aware of what meetings like the ITU Council 2019, are discussing, debating and making decisions on.

The pre-meeting report below should be useful not only to government representatives who have ITU as part of a large portfolio, but also to non-government stakeholders who want to learn more about how ITU Member States plan to put the big decisions made at Plenipotentiary Conference 2018 into action.

NEW: Updated version 1.1, dated 11 June 2019 referring to documents and issues posted to the ITU Council 2019 website since June 6, now available! It is also available from the linked image below. Additions are signposted in red text.

Original version, from 6 June, still available here.