S. Sudan to participate in global telecoms event

November 10, 2013 (JUBA) – South Sudan will be among world nations attending the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) conference scheduled from 19-22 November in the Thailand capital, Bangkok.

At the four-day event, South Sudan, led by its telecommunication and postal service minister, Rebecca Joshua Okwachi, will have the opportunity to highlight some of the investment potentials within its agricultural, forestry, mining and tourism sectors.

The conference will further avail the new nation a chance to tap partners willing to work with already existing players in the country’s information communication technology industry.

Started in 1865, the ITU is a United Nations agency whose purpose is to coordinate telecommunication operations and services throughout the world.

Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, the union sets and publishes regulations and standards relevant to electronic communication and broadcasting technologies of all kinds including radio, television, satellite, telephone and the Internet.

A statement on the ITU website says its, “mission is to ensure the efficient and timely production of standards covering all fields of telecommunications on a worldwide basis, as well as defining tariff and accounting principles for international telecommunication services”.

(ST)