Telecommunications and employment: An interview with Mr. R.E. Butler, Secretary-General of the international telecommunication union

At the conclusion of the two International Telecommunication Union (ITU) conferences held in Geneva in 1959—the Plenipotentiary (October 14 to December 16) and the Administrative Radio (August 17 to December 17)—two international documents were officially signed by the representatives of 85 and 84 countries respectively, namely: 1) the new Convention, replacing the International Telecommunication Convention of Buenos Aires, 1952; and 2) the new Radio Regulations, replacing those of Atlantic City, 1947. The Convention was to take effect on January 1, 1961, and the Radio Regulations on May i, 1961. Some additional protocols had to be signed as well, so that certain decisions (for example, the elections of the newly-constituted Administrative Council, the Secretary-General, and the Deputy Secretary-General, and changes made in the budget system) could take effect forthwith. Numerous recommendations and resolutions were also adopted, and decisions concerning the way ITU was organized, how it was run, and its future development were reached by the Plenipotentiary Conference, the chairman of which was Mr. J. D. H. van der Toorn, head of the Netherlands delegation. The chairman of the Radio Conference was Mr. Charles J. Acton, head of the Canadian delegation.

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International Telecommunication Union

International Organization ◽

10.1017/s0020818300015885 ◽

1951 ◽

Vol 5 (4) ◽

pp. 800-802

Keyword(s):

Secretary General ◽

Atlantic City ◽

International Telecommunication Union ◽

International Telecommunication ◽

International Telecommunications ◽

Social Fields ◽

Telecommunications Services

The report of the International Telecommunication Union submitted to ECOSOC on June 11, 1951, was accompanied by a statement by the Secretary-General (Mulatier) in response to ECOSOC's resolution requesting all specialized agencies in the economic and social fields to review their programs with an eye to the concentration of all efforts and resources on the most urgent tasks. Noting that ITU's program of work was governed by the Atlantic City Convention (1947) and that the Union's 1952 activities would relate to its regular task of enabling its members to operate their international telecommunications services and to the holding of any conferences which might be essential for the performance of that task, the Secretary-General expressed the opinion that the program would not appear to include any activities of the kind contemplated in the ECOSOC resolution.

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International Telecommunication Union

International Organization ◽

10.1017/s0020818300033907 ◽

1963 ◽

Vol 17 (2) ◽

pp. 504-504 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Keyword(s):

Outer Space ◽

Secretary General ◽

Human History ◽

International Telecommunication Union ◽

International Telecommunication ◽

The Past ◽

The Future

The seventeenth session of the Administrative Council of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) was held from May 5 to June 9, 1962, under the chairmanship of Mr. Juan Antonio Autelli (Argentina). ITU's Secretary-General, Mr. Gerald C. Gross, remarked that the activities of the Union during the past year had continued to increase usefully on a sound financial basis. In discussing the work of ITU in the future, the Secretary-General stated that the efforts being taken by some nations to penetrate outer space constituted one of the greatest intellectual and technical enterprises in human history. ITU's role in this effort would be particularly important.

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International Telecommunication Union

International Organization ◽

10.1017/s0020818300024668 ◽

1961 ◽

Vol 15 (1) ◽

pp. 195-197 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Keyword(s):

Technical Assistance ◽

Secretary General ◽

Active Part ◽

International Banking ◽

Considerable Part ◽

International Telecommunication Union ◽

International Telecommunication ◽

Special Fund ◽

General Secretariat

The fifteenth session of the Administrative Council of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) was held in Geneva from May 28 to July 2, 1960, under the chairmanship of Mr. Libero Oswaldo de Miranda (Brazil). In pursuance of a decision of the Plenipotentiary Conference of ITU held in Autumn 1959 to increase the part played by the Union in the Expanded Program of Technical Assistance, the Council devoted a considerable part of the session to technical assistance. Discussion revolved around the review of previous procedures applied to ITU technical assistance problems and consideration of procedures that would enable the Union to take a more active part in technical assistance. Since telecommunication projects had been submitted to ITU by the Special Fund, thus making ITU an executive agent of the Fund, the Council passed a resolution outlining the procedure by which ITU should take part in the Fund's activities, along with a directive to the General Secretariat to inform countries of the possibility of recourse to the Fund with a view to financing telecommunication projects. After a long discussion, the Council decided that ITU could also provide technical assistance through the preparation of seminars on technical telecommunication subjects and through the assistance of the Consultative Committees. The Council urged closer contact between the ITU Secretariat and the countries requiring technical assistance in order to specify the needs of those countries and to follow up current expert missions more efficiently. The possibility of regional representation in ITU was considered, but the consensus was that it would be too expensive for the Union at present. Concerning the financing of telecommunication projects, the Council acknowledged the help that might be given by private or international banking concerns and requested the Secretary-General to send to administrations all the information he could assemble on this question.

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The graph neural networking challenge

ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review ◽

10.1145/3477482.3477485 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 51 (3) ◽

pp. 9-16

Author(s):

José Suárez-Varela ◽

Miquel Ferriol-Galmés ◽

Albert López ◽

Paul Almasan ◽

Guillermo Bernárdez ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Machine Learning ◽

Computer Networks ◽

Real World ◽

Large Scale ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

Educational Resources ◽

Global Competition ◽

International Telecommunication Union ◽

International Telecommunication ◽

Broad Audience

During the last decade, Machine Learning (ML) has increasingly become a hot topic in the field of Computer Networks and is expected to be gradually adopted for a plethora of control, monitoring and management tasks in real-world deployments. This poses the need to count on new generations of students, researchers and practitioners with a solid background in ML applied to networks. During 2020, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has organized the "ITU AI/ML in 5G challenge", an open global competition that has introduced to a broad audience some of the current main challenges in ML for networks. This large-scale initiative has gathered 23 different challenges proposed by network operators, equipment manufacturers and academia, and has attracted a total of 1300+ participants from 60+ countries. This paper narrates our experience organizing one of the proposed challenges: the "Graph Neural Networking Challenge 2020". We describe the problem presented to participants, the tools and resources provided, some organization aspects and participation statistics, an outline of the top-3 awarded solutions, and a summary with some lessons learned during all this journey. As a result, this challenge leaves a curated set of educational resources openly available to anyone interested in the topic.

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A line-of-sight channel model for the 100–450 gigahertz frequency band

EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking ◽

10.1186/s13638-021-01974-8 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2021 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Joonas Kokkoniemi ◽

Janne Lehtomäki ◽

Markku Juntti

Keyword(s):

Channel Model ◽

Full Range ◽

Line Of Sight ◽

Absorption Loss ◽

Radio Communication ◽

International Telecommunication Union ◽

International Telecommunication ◽

Fifth Generation ◽

Proposed Model ◽

Actual Response

AbstractThis paper documents a simple parametric polynomial line-of-sight channel model for 100–450 GHz band. The band comprises two popular beyond fifth generation (B5G) frequency bands, namely, the D band (110–170 GHz) and the low-THz band (around 275–325 GHz). The main focus herein is to derive a simple, compact, and accurate molecular absorption loss model for the 100–450 GHz band. The derived model relies on simple absorption line shape functions that are fitted to the actual response given by complex but exact database approach. The model is also reducible for particular sub-bands within the full range of 100–450 GHz, further simplifying the absorption loss estimate. The proposed model is shown to be very accurate by benchmarking it against the exact response and the similar models given by International Telecommunication Union Radio Communication Sector. The loss is shown to be within ±2 dBs from the exact response for one kilometer link in highly humid environment. Therefore, its accuracy is even much better in the case of usually considered shorter range future B5G wireless systems.

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THE ROLE OF HARMONIZATION OF ACTIVITIES TO IMPROVE THE RATING OF RUSSIA IN THE INTERNATIONAL STATISTICAL COMPARISONS IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND ICT

Электросвязь ◽

10.34832/elsv.2020.7.6.008 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Н.П. РЕЗНИКОВА ◽

Г.С. АРТЕМЬЕВА ◽

Д.В. КАЛЮГА

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Sustainable Development Goals ◽

International Telecommunication Union ◽

The Sustainable Development ◽

International Telecommunication ◽

Development Goals ◽

The Russian Federation ◽

Ict Development ◽

The Impact

Представлены основные направления для поиска путей улучшения рейтинга Российской Федерации в международных статистических сопоставлениях в сфере электросвязи/ИКТ с учетом необходимости гармонизации разнообразных направлений деятельности, связанных с оценкой влияния электросвязи/ИКТ на достижение Целей устойчивого развития, а также с появлением Нового индекса Международного союза электросвязи (МСЭ) взамен Индекса развития ИКТ(IDI). OThe main directions for finding ways to improve the rating of the Russian Federation in international statistical comparisons in the field of telecommunications/ICT are presented, taking into account the need to harmonize various activities related to assessing the impact of telecommunications/ICTs on achieving the sustainable development goals, as well as the advent of the new International Telecommunication Union Index instead of the ICT Development Index (IDI).

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