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ITU makes its decision-making procedures transparent

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By Staff Writer, ITWeb
Johannesburg, 04 Jan 2017
One of the powers of ICTs is their ability to make organisations more trustworthy. ITU aims to lead by example, says Houlin Zhao, ITU secretary-general.
One of the powers of ICTs is their ability to make organisations more trustworthy. ITU aims to lead by example, says Houlin Zhao, ITU secretary-general.

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has started the new year by launching a new access to information policy, which provides more insight into ITU's working methods and decision-making procedures.

The ITU commits to make more information and documents held, managed, or generated by the organisation to be openly available online.

The decision was made by ITU's governing Council in 2016. It aims to bring public access to information for ITU's main conferences and meetings in line with other international organisations like the World Bank, UNDP, and UNESCO.

"The ITU Council decision provides more information and insight into ITU's working methods and decision-making procedures to the general public and promotes greater transparency and accountability," says Houlin Zhao, ITU secretary-general. "One of the powers of ICTs is their ability to make organisations more trustworthy. ITU aims to lead by example."

As of 1 January 2017, input documents, summaries of decisions, reports and other output documents are available to the public through ITU's Web site.

The organisation says this process will be a standard feature of ITU's main conferences and meetings in the coming years, including ITU Council Working Groups, ITU Advisory Groups Meetings, the upcoming World Telecommunication Development Conference 2017 and the ITU principle governing body, the quadrennial Plenipotentiary Conference, the next one of which is scheduled for the last quarter in 2018.

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