 | No representation of Bangladesh at ITU yet
17 May, 2011
Bangladesh is yet to nominate its representative to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) although the country received the membership of the ITU council in October last year.
The telecoms ministry lauded the membership as a great achievement of the government. The council election of the United Nation's body on information and communication technology takes place once every four years. Bangladesh became an ITU member in 1973.
As there was no representation from Bangladesh, it could not attend the meetings, conferences or workshops of ITU in the past, said an official of Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC).
Pakistan lost ITU council and radio regulation board memberships due to the government's poor performance in the council, he added.
“Bangladesh is still in poor performance or in no performance, as it failed to nominate any official from the BTRC or the telecoms ministry to represent at
the ITU.”
Sunil Kanti Bose, telecoms secretary, said a director of the ministry has recently been selected to represent Bangladesh in the ITU. The name has been sent to the ITU, Bose added.
ITU will have its council meeting in September.
According to the ITU website, every month the organisation arranges a number of meetings relating to spectrum, policy, technology, regulation, cost, tariff, cyber security, education, connectivity under its various departments named radio telecommunications, standardisation and development.
Today is the World Telecommunication and Information Society Day. The day is themed “Better life in rural communities with ICTs”, adopted by the ITU council in 2009. The day also marks the anniversary of the signing of the first International Telegraph Convention and the creation of the ITU.
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