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become increasingly relevant. Ensuring that all the satellites a platform for developing and
around the Earth -- not only their developed countries.
Q: Do you agree that ITU is locations but the frequencies
"a rapidly expanding orga- they use -- are not interfering Q: Your Number Two is from
nization"? with each other is also calculated China*. Robert Hessler said
here at ITU. that Africa and China wor-
Yes. Even the original manda- king together is a global trend.
te of ITU -- standardization -- The Standardization Bureau is Do you have any comments?
is growing now, because you making sure that everyone is
have thousands of new patents using standards that enable them I think South-South cooperation
on a daily basis. Therefore, to talk to each other, from simple is a key area being looked at by
standardization is becoming ones -- country codes, city codes many developing countries. Of
more important. Spectrum -- to the more complex ones -- course, it's one of many part-
management is also increas- like the coding inside the signal nerships coming along and
ingly important because we itself That is the technical side. China is a very good model of
are living in a wireless world. Experts from all over the world development today, given its
come together regularly to dis- size and strategies. It has
Q: What is a spectrum? cuss these issues. The latest stan- enjoyed double-figure growth
dard they are working on is over many years -- this is what
To use wireless communica- interoperability between the many developing countries
tions you need a special fre- telephone and the Internet, want. In the ICT field, coopera-
quency. Each communication because today the computer can tion with other countries is a
needs to work on its own fre- be used as a telephone. You have must. I would like to see some
quency and these frequencies to convert the 20-digit codes very large-scale initiatives, such
Europe-Africa,
used inside the computer into a as
must not interfere with each
Latin
nternationa sion station, each mobile ope- be aware of this. build bridges in the ICT field
organize it on a global scale. but technically the user will not Europe-Americas. I want to
6- or 9-digit telephone number; America-Africa, Asia-Africa or
other. Therefore, you need to
Each radio station, each televi-
and to achieve better results.
rator in the world has its own
The third part of ITU is the
Development Sector, which is Q: Since you and your
frequency. The idea is to cause
no harm to others -- nor to helping countries to bridge the Number Two know ITU very
digital divide, to develop their well -- the strengths and weak-
ones self. All those frequen-
Radiocommunication Bureau.
developing countries alone. It is
8 1 2007 Diva cies are coordinated by ITU's infrastructure. This is not for nesses - what are your plans?

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