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India-born Canadian to contest International Telecom Union position | Dr Veena Rawat, an India-born Canadian telecommunications
expert and Canada ’s candidate for the post of Director, Radiocommunication Bureau of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), is attending the ITU World
Telecommunication Development Conference in Hyderabad from May 24 to June 4,2010.
Dr. Rawat is president of the Communications Research Centre ( CRC ), Canada ’s
centre of excellence for telecommunications research and development, with 400
staff and an annual budget of over 50 million dollars. She is responsible for
Canada ’s participation in bilateral and multilateral information and communications
technology research partnerships with many countries around the world. An internationally
recognized expert in spectrum management and research and development in information
and communications technologies (ICT), Dr. Rawat has been a keynote and invited
speaker at over 100 domestic and international conferences and events since 1995.
She has chaired many national and international technical committees and working
groups addressing matters related to the development of standards and regulations
for radiocommunication technologies and services. Under her leadership, CRC has
strengthened its partnerships with government agencies, academia, the private
sector and international research organizations. It has also accelerated its commercialization
and technology transfer activities. Born in India , Dr. Rawat immigrated to Canada
in 1968 where she became the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in electrical engineering
from Queen’s University in Ontario in 1973. She was the first woman to chair a
world radiocommunication conference of the ITU in 2003 for which she was awarded
an ITU gold medal. The International Telecommunication Union will be holding the
election for its senior management positions, the Governing Council and the
Radiocommunication
Regulation Board at the October Plenipotentiary Conference in Mexico from October
4 to 22, 2010 in Guadalajara , Mexico . The ITU is the United Nations Specialized
Agency responsible for telecommunications, including international regulations
for the management of radio frequency spectrum and satellite orbit resources,
standards for equipment and operations, and assistance for developing countries
in improving telecommunications facilities. It also addresses global challenges
such as mitigating climate change and strengthening cyber-security. One of the
key functions of the Radiocommunication Bureau is to develop and implement, through
established processes with member states, regulations, standards and coordination
procedures for the global management of radio frequency spectrum and satellite
orbit resources. The radio-frequency spectrum is increasingly in demand from a
large and growing number of services such as fixed, mobile, broadcasting, amateur,
space research, emergency telecommunications, meteorology, global positioning
systems, environmental monitoring and communication services - that ensure safety
of life on land, at sea and in the skies. The ITU World Telecommunication Development
Conference (WTDC-10) in Hyderabad will focus on development priorities in ICT.
Ministers, heads of international organizations, development banks and regulatory
agencies, and CEOs of private sector companies will attend with a global focus
on adopting the Hyderabad Action Plan that will set the agenda for ICT development
over the next four years. |
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