On the 9th of October 2012, Mr. Nenad Stankovic, ICPE Representative in Vienna, participated in the Briefing Session on World Conference on International Telecommunications, organized by International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in Geneva. That world conference presents a key opportunity to increase collaboration between countries, to help countries reach new levels of economic and social development through efficient telecom services, and to make the International Telecommunication Regulations more relevant and valuable to ITU members, to help them respond to the challenges of a fast-evolving ICT environment. Besides very successful participation in the briefing Session, Mr. Stankovic also realized official visits to ITU (International Telecommunication Union), UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development), ITC (International Trade Centre) and ILO (International Labour Organization).
From left: Mr. François Rancy, Director of the ITU Radiocommunication Bureau, Mr. Brahima Sanou, Director of the ITU Development Bureau, Mr. Houlin Zhao, Deputy Secretary-General of ITU, Dr. Hamadoun I. Toure, Secretary-General of ITU
During his visit to ITU, Mr. Stankovic met Dr. Hamadoun I. Toure, Secretary-General of ITU, Mr. Houlin Zhao, Deputy Secretary-General of ITU and Mr. Brahima Sanou, Director of ITU Telecommunication Development Bureau. In discussion with those ITU high-level officials, he presented organization and new ICPE Programmes, informed about ICPE efforts to refresh some activities and underlined the high level of importance which ICPE is giving to the cooperation with international organizations in different technical-economic fields, including different kind of trainings, knowledge management and human capacity buildings. After active and very successful discussions Dr. Toure, Mr. Zhao and Mr. Sanou appreciated the meeting with Mr. Stankovic and expressed interest for co-operation with ICPE. It was agreed that concrete modalities and fields of co-operation between two organizations will be defined/developed with ITU colleagues responsible for specific topics and with strong support of ITU Management.
From left : Mr. Nenad Stankovic, ICPE Representative in Vienna and Dr. Hamadoun I. Toure, Secretary-General of ITU
From left: Mr. Houlin Zhao, Deputy Secretary-General of ITU and Mr. Nenad Stankovic, ICPE Representative in Vienna
During his visit to UNCTAD, Mr. Stankovic met Mr. Torbjörn Fredriksson, Chief, ICT Analysis Section, Science, Technology and ICT Branch, Division on Technology and logistic of UNCTAD. In this very efficient and fruitful meeting it was discussed and agreed that ICPE in kind collaboration with UNCTAD will organize presentation of UNCTAD’s Information Economy Report 2012. Event will be held in Ljubljana (Slovenia) on 6th of December 2012. Mr. Fredriksson and Mr. Stankovic expressed the great pleasure with the fact that ICPE and UNCTAD re-established co-operation and confirmed concrete mutual activity.
From left: Mr. Nenad Stankovic, ICPE Representative in Vienna and Mr. Torbjörn Fredriksson, Chief, ICT Analysis Section, Science, Technology and ICT Branch (Division on Technology and Logistic), UNCTAD
During the stay in Geneva, Mr. Stankovic also met Mr. Friedrich von Kirchbach, Director of Division of Country Programmes and Mr. Alexander Kasterine, Head, Trade and Environment Programme Sector Competitiveness in ITC, Mr. Markus Pilgrim, Manager of the Small Enterprise Programme in ILO and H.E. Mr. Wayne McCook, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Jamaica to the UN in Geneva (Jamaica was founder and former Member State of ICPE). The main subject of those meetings was exchanging information about possibility for creating mutual programs, projects, trainings, events and developing mutual co-operation according to the ICPE programmes/activities and based on specific needs/requirements of the countries. It was agreed to continue dialogue and intensify exchanging of information with aim to define the most appropriate proposal for co-operation.