Hendy renews Egypt’s bid for ITU Council seat at Doha plenipotentiary

Egypt’s Minister of Communications and Information Technology Raafat Hendy provided Egypt’s address to the plenary session of the International Telecommunication Union’s Plenipotentiary Conference (PP-26) in Doha, where he revealed that Egypt is restoring its candidateship for a seat on the ITU Council representing Africa.

Hendy spoke in the existence of ITU Secretary-General Doreen Bogdan-Martin, together with agents of member states, regulators, telecoms and innovation business, universities and global organisations. He thanked Qatar for hosting the conference and asked member states to support Egypt’s quote.
Digital facilities and AI
Hendy stated Egypt thought inexpensive, top quality and safe and secure interactions for all were the structure of inclusive and sustainable advancement, which its digital vision matched the 2 primary objectives of the ITU’s tactical strategy: digital addition and sustainable digital improvement.

He stated Egypt was broadening its fibre-optic networks, presenting 5G services and linking rural and underserved locations to narrow the digital divide. It is executing a nationwide technique to transfer to variation 6 of the Internet Protocol (IPv6) and has actually released a spectrum method for 2026 to 2030.

The minister stated Egypt saw connection as a method to empower individuals and enhance lifestyle, and connected specific value to expert system. He indicated Karnak, an Egyptian big language design established to support Arabic-language AI applications.

He likewise kept in mind that a number of Egyptian efforts had actually been identified worldwide Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Prizes, in locations consisting of the empowerment of ladies and youths, abilities advancement, digital improvement and online security.
A long collaboration
Hendy highlighted Egypt’s relationship with the ITU, which it participated in 1876, and its subscription of the ITU Council because 1947. He stated the collaboration was growing through work to establish an ITU velocity and development centre in Egypt, the Egyptian-African Centre for Telecom Regulation Training, which has actually been selected as a training centre within the ITU Academy, and continuing co-operation on sustainable clever cities.
Talks with Saudi Arabia and Rwanda
On the sidelines of the conference, Hendy fulfilled Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Communications and Information Technology Abdullah Alswaha to talk about closer co-operation, especially in AI. The 2 evaluated locations covered by a structure memorandum of comprehending checked in 2019, which covers AI, digital improvement, postal services, capability structure, development and entrepreneurship, and organization collaborations.

Hendy informed his equivalent on upgrades to Egypt’s telecoms facilities, consisting of the roll-out of fibre-optic cable televisions across the country and to towns in the governmental Haya Karima effort. Alswaha stated he wished to reinforce co-operation and trigger the memorandum. The ministers consented to co-ordinate more carefully in worldwide telecoms online forums, and Hendy welcomed Alswaha to go to Egypt.

The conference was participated in by Mohamed Shamroukh, executive president of Egypt’s National Telecom Regulatory Authority, and on the Saudi side by Haytham Al-Ohali, guv of the Communications, Space and Technology Commission.

Hendy likewise fulfilled Rwanda’s Minister of ICT and Innovation Paula Ingabire to go over co-operation on telecoms facilities and AI under a memorandum of comprehending the 2 nations checked in July, in addition to co-ordination in worldwide telecoms online forums.