Engineer Jean Marie Altema, Director General of the National Telecommunications Council (CONATEL), took part in the ITU Telecom World (14-17 November) in Bangkok (Thailand), the world's largest innovation event in the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) sector organized by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). The main focus of this event was to promote collaboration in the digital economy, the key role played by technological SMEs in our digital ecosystem and the innovative investment in global connectivity. The objective being to present and discover the latest innovations, but also to bring together actors from around the world, to discuss and explore the prospects for the evolution of ICT.

Jean Marie Altema met with Houlin Zhao, Secretary General and Brahima Sanou, Director of the ITU Telecommunication Development Bureau. Discussions focused on projects related to technical assistance on emergency telecommunications, training, youth entrepreneurship in the digital economy and financial inclusion, women in technology, broadband services development in a competitive market, capacity building and other regulatory issues.

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