SME Times News Bureau | 22 Oct, 2014
India favours democratisation and broad-basing of the global affairs of
telecommunications and internet governance, Information Technology and
Telecommunications Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has said.
He was
speaking Monday at the inaugural session of the International
Telecommunications Union (ITU) Conference at Busan in South Korea, an
official statement here said.
India's point of view is that ITU
should take leadership and partner with UN and other
international/regional organizations in executing the Information and
Communication Technology (ICT) projects and programmes in developing
countries.
India also wants the ITU to be the supervisory
authority of Space Assets. India expressed its desire that ITU should
play a more active role in the global internet governance as envisaged
during the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS).
The Indian
delegation has been participating in The Plenipotentiary Conference,
which is the top policy-making body of the 193 member strong
International Telecommunications Union. It meets once in every four
years. India has also been pitching for a re-election into the ITU
Council, the statement Tuesday said.
