ITU Sixth Symposium on ICTs, the Environment and Climate Change
| What | Africa, Symposium |
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| When |
Jul 07, 2011 03:00 PM
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Jul 09, 2011 01:00 AM |
| Where | Accra (Greater Accra), Ghana |
| Contact Name | Cristina Bueti |
| Attendees |
Leading specialists in the field,from top policy-makers to engineers,designers,planners,government officials,regulators, standards experts and others. |
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The main purpose of the event is to move forward the agenda on using ICTs to monitor climate change, mitigate and adapt to its effects and, in this light, identify future requirements for ITU’s related work – including standardization of ICT equipment and networks as well as development activities. (see Resolution 73 of the 2008 World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly (WTSA-08), Resolution 66 of the 2010 World Telecommunication Development Conference (WTDC-10) and Resolution 182 of the 2010 Plenipotentiary Conference (PP-10)).
The symposium in Ghana will focus on the issue of ICTs, the environment and climate change in Africa and the needs of developing countries. Topics to be discussed will include mitigation and adaptation to climate change, e-waste, disaster planning, cost-effective ICT technologies, methodologies for the environmental impact assessment of ICTs, challenges and opportunities in the transition to a green and resource efficient economy.
