13 June 2011
Luanda — The secretary-general of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Hamadoun Touré, Monday, in Luanda, considered Information and Communication Technologies as one of the objectives for attaining Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and for the national economies.
He made this statement while speaking at the opening session of the conference for the presentation of the “White Book and the New Normative Framework of the ICT sector”, adding that it is governments’ responsibilities creating information and communication services in the remote places of the provinces, districts and headquarters.
According to Hamadoun Touré, in the last decades there was a revolution in the mobile-phone industry, adding that next years the development will be focused on broadband technology, mainly in the African countries.
He also said that African States need to reinforce their investments in developing technologies by satellites, assuring that it is ITU challenges working for migration of the television analogical system to digital one.
The ceremony was attended by the Angolan vice minister of Telecommunication, Aristides Safeca and the vice minister for Information Technology, Pedro Teta, as well as government officials and high officials of the sector.
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