[kictanet] Fwd: Kenya elected as the new Chair of the CTO for 2012-13

[Kivuva]

This is great news. Who will be the Kenyan representative as Chair?

On 26 October 2012 18:28, Alice Munyua <alice at apc.org> wrote:

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> *Kenya elected as the new Chair of the CTO for 2012-13*
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>                  *Port Louis, Mauritius -26 October 2012* - At the 52nd
> Council meeting held on 25th October in Mauritius, Kenya was elected as the
> new Chairperson of the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation<https://www.regonline.co.uk/manager/email/WWW.CTO.INT>for 2012-13. Also elected were Nigeria as the First Vice Chairperson and
> Trinidad and Tobago as the Second Vice Chairperson. Telkom South Africa and
> the Telecommunications Regulatory Board of Cameroon were elected to the
> CTO’s Executive Committee representing the Industry Partners and the
> Development Partners of the CTO respectively.
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> This meeting also marked an important occasion when the Council adopted
> the proposed amendments to the CTO Constitution and Rules of Procedure.
> Based on the outcomes of a wide ranging consultation, the amendments modify
> the governance structure of the CTO to facilitate the delivery of its
> mandate. The new Constitution and the Rules of Procedure improve the
> stakeholders’ participation in governance, takes into account commercial
> exigencies and provides for greater degree of transparency.
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> The Council meeting was preceded by the 10th Annual CTO Forum, which was
> opened by H.E. Mr. Rajkeswur Purryag, GCSK, GOSK, President of the Republic
> of Mauritius. The Forum brought together policy makers, regulators and
> industry representatives from both Commonwealth and non-Commonwealth
> countries, to explore how mobile broadband can be utilized more
> effectively, efficiently and securely for development.
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> In the margins of the Forum, on 24th October, the joint project by the
> International Telecommunications Union and the CTO to implement Child
> Online Protection in six African countries was launched at a meeting
> attended by senior policy makers and regulatory heads, led by Hon.
> Tassarajen Pillay Chedumbrum, Minister of Information and Communication
> Technology of Mauritius, where the delegates finalized the implementation
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> challenges and opportunities of the migration from IPv4 to IPv6.
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> Mauritius, with generous sponsorship from Diamond Sponsor Mauritius
> Telecom/Orange, as well as many other local and international sponsors.
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