Third Annual Private Sector Cooperation Meeting in the Arab Region Amman, Jordan, 1-2 October 2003

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Third Annual Private Sector Cooperation Meeting
in the Arab Region Amman, Jordan, 1-2 October
2003
STRENGTHENING COOPERATION WITHTHE PRIVATE SECTOR
IN THE ARAB REGION Summary of actions
implemented since the last Private Sector
Meeting in Cairo, in 2002
Jean-Yves Besnier, Head of PPM UnitPartnership,
Promotion MembershipITU/BDT, Geneva

• Mohamed Abdalla, Senior Adviser, ITU Regional
  Office for the Arab Region, Cairo

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STRENGTHENING COOPERATION WITHTHE PRIVATE SECTOR
IN THE ARAB REGION

• Enhance contacts and cooperation between private
  sector representatives in the Region and ITU
• gt Development of an extensive reference list of
  private sectors companies/organizations in the
  Arab Region.
• gt In parallel, and in cooperation with
  Ministries/Regulators, completion of a database
  OPERITU on all licensed operators and service
  providers, in each ITU Region. 159
  countries targeted so far gt 2500 company
  records
• gt Hiring a private sector officer at the ITU
  Regional Office Ms. Reem MANSOUR.
• gt Nomination of a single focal point for
  private sector matters in each ITU Regional
  Office Mr. Mohamed ABDALLA, for the Arab Region
  Office.
• gt Publishing of the Platform for Partnerships
  brochure.gt Creation of a web page on ARO site,
  targeted at Private Sector/Sector Members of the
  Region (in Arabic and partly in English).

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STRENGTHENING COOPERATION WITHTHE PRIVATE SECTOR
IN THE ARAB REGION
B. Reinforce the identification of ITU-D Sector
Members development projects and post them on the
operators database gt The new 2003
questionnaire has been redesigned to take into
account accurate information on products
and services provided by each operator/service
provider main areas of development
projects search for partnerships (financial,
business/operational, technical) gt See the
2003 Questionnaire versus the one of 2002
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STRENGTHENING COOPERATION WITHTHE PRIVATE SECTOR
IN THE ARAB REGION

• B. Reinforce the identification of ITU-D Sector
  Members development projects and post them on the
  operators database - (contd)
• Company records in OPERITU of which Company
  Profiles Algeria 2 0 Bahrain
  1 1 Djibouti 1 0 Egypt 6 4 Iraq
  1 0 Jordan 15 5 Kuwait 13 3 Lebanon
  3 2 Libya 2 1 Morocco
  7 2 Oman 1 0 Qatar 1 1 Saudi
  Arabia 3 1 Somali Dem. Rep.
  4 0 Sudan 4 1 Syrian Arab Rep.
  5 0 Tunisia 1 0 UAE 2 1 Yemen
  5 1 Palestinian Authority 2 0

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STRENGTHENING COOPERATION WITHTHE PRIVATE SECTOR
IN THE ARAB REGION

• Develop the new 2002 Operators Questionnaire in
  cooperation with representatives of the Arab
  Region
• gt Implemented in 2002.
• gt Implementation of the 2003 Questionnaire in
  June.
• gt Full on-line availability of OPERITU database
  planned for the end of October 2003 (OPERITU,
  Version 2).

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STRENGTHENING COOPERATION WITHTHE PRIVATE SECTOR
IN THE ARAB REGION

• D. Develop the BDT Partnership Database as a tool
  to identify existing concrete BDT partnerships in
  the various programmes/activities
• gt Currently as an internal BDT tool
• gt Planned to be accessible to all ITU-D Members
  by the first Quarter of 2004.

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STRENGTHENING COOPERATION WITHTHE PRIVATE SECTOR
IN THE ARAB REGION

• E. Create a comprehensive Call for Partners
  section in the BDT web site
• gt Currently under development by ISS/IOS
  Department
• gt It should be operational by the end of the
  fourth Quarter of 2003.

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STRENGTHENING COOPERATION WITHTHE PRIVATE SECTOR
IN THE ARAB REGION

• Suggestions to create a Working Group on Regional
  Private Sector Issues for the Arab Region
• gt Meeting of the Global Working Group on the
  private sector (WGPS), (March 2003).
• gt Approval by the WGPS and TDAG to create 5
  Regional Working Parties (RWP) on private sector
  issues (March 2003).gt Nomination of 5 Chairmen
  of the RWPs to launch the Regional
  Groups.gt First communication at ITU annual
  meeting for the Arab Region (Beirut, May 2003).
  gt First meeting of the RWP for the Arab
  Region, in Amman, 1-2 October 2003.

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STRENGTHENING COOPERATION WITHTHE PRIVATE SECTOR
IN THE ARAB REGION

• G. Identification of the Issue
  managers/moderators in charge of coordinating
  the work on each selected issue gt See
  paragraph F.
• H. Preparation and participation of the Arab
  Region at WSIS
• gt Very intensive participation of many
  stakeholders of the Arab Region in several
  preparatory meetings and workshops before WSIS.
  gt Creation of a special Programme Group on WSIS
  within the Regional Working Party (RWP) (See
  presentation on RWP).

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THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION !

• The ITU/HQ, in Geneva
• Partnership, Promotion Membership (PPM) Unit
• Telecommunication Development Bureau (BDT)
• Mr. Jean-Yves Besnier, Head, PPM Unit
• Tel [phone]
• Fax [phone]
• E-mail jean-yves.besnier_at_itu.int
• http//www.itu.int/ITU-D/

The ITU Arab Regional Office (ARO), in Cairo Mr.
Mohamed Abdalla, Senior Adviser Tel 202 262
6620 Fax [phone] E-Mail mohamed.abdalla_at_i
tu.int http//www.ituarabic.org