ICT Development (ICT)

Introduction

The development of telecommunications and ICT infrastructure is a major challenge for many countries in the Asia-Pacific region. Whilst many APT member countries are making huge efforts to bring telecommunications and ICT facilities to their people at an affordable price, there are many key issues in the areas of policy, technology, applications, resource mobilization, etc., that needed to be addressed for effective deployment.

As a region, there is significant strength and expertise of ICT that could be tapped and coordinated to the best interest of the region. APT has been active in these areas, hence, but there needs to be ICT development programmes that would facilitate a comprehensive, focused and result oriented dialogue to address the development needs for the region, including hands-on programmes which provide opportunities for exchange of ICT knowledge, and real implementation in the form of pilot projects and ICT application to tackle issues of digital economy to achieve sustainable development goals, and share outcomes to our Members.

For this purpose, the following programmes are organized for our Members:                                                        

APT Telecommunication/ICT Development Forum (ADF)

The ADF is a platform that provides an opportunity to identify the specific issues that hinder the development of the telecommunication networks in rural areas and to discuss the appropriate use of new technologies available for rural telecom development.

 ICT Project and Collaborative Research

The development of telecommunications/ICTs infrastructure and applications remains a major challenge for many countries in the Asia-Pacific region. As stated in the Singapore Statement, it is necessary to make telecommunications and ICT services affordable and accessible in order to achieve the digital society and Sustainable Development Goals. In the Asia-Pacific region, there is significant strength and expertise of ICT that could be tapped and coordinated to the best interest of the region. With the Extra-Budgetary Contribution funded by Japan, Republic of Korea, and China, APT has been active in these areas through implementing projects that are related to ICT infrastructure and applications.