The annual Telecommunication Senior Officials Meeting-ASEAN
Telecommunication Regulators’ Council (TELSOM-ATRC) Leaders Retreat is
taking place in the northern port city of Hai Phong from April 11-12 to
boost cooperation in information and communication technologies (ICT)
between ASEAN member countries.
Addressing the
opening ceremony, Deputy Minister of Information and Communication Tran
Duc Lai highlighted the bloc’s ICT cooperation and its effectively
implemented projects.
Lai suggested participants
consider carefully set targets for the 2015 cooperation roadmap, define
priortised areas in line with the region’s development and discuss a
cooperation programme based on orientations in the Cebu Declaration
approved at the 12 th ASEAN Telecommunication Ministers’ Meeting in the
Philippines last November.
During the meeting,
the delegates will evaluate initiatives and projects implemented within
the framework of the master plan on ICT development among ASEAN member
countries towards 2015.
Earlier, from April 8-10,
the ministry coordinated with the ASEAN Secretariat to organise the ATRC
joint working group (ATRC JWG), and with the European Union to hold the
2 nd ASEAN Spectrum Policy Forum.-VNA