World Telecommunication & Information Society Day(WTISD)2021

About Event

The COVID-19 crisis has not only highlighted the critical role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for continued functioning of societies but has also brought to the fore the startling digital inequalities between and within countries and has highlighted the urgency of accelerating digital transformation and advancing the goals and targets of the Connect 2030 Agenda . Read More

Monday 17th May, 2021 At 11AM IST

Our Speakers

Malcolm Johnson

Deputy Secretary General, ITU

Anita Praveen

Additional Secretary Department of Telecommunications Government of India

R CHANDRASHEKHAR

IAS (RETD.)Former President NASSCOM & former Chairman Telecom Commission and Secretary Department of Telecommunication

Deepa Tyagi

Sr.DDG & Head TEC

Dr. Rajkumar Upadhyay

Executive Director, C-DOT

Dr. Aloknath De

Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Samsung R&D India, Bangalore.

Dr. S. K. Mishra

Prof. & Head, Dept. of Endocrine Surgery Nodal Officer, SGPGI Telemedicine Program Sanjay Gandhi PG Inst. of Medical Sciences Lucknow, India

Tilak Raj Dua

Director General, TAIPA and Chairman ITU-APT

Bharat Bhatia

President, ITU-APT Foundation of India

Prof.NK Goyal

Vice Chairman, ITU-APT Foundation of India

Vikram Tiwathia

Deputy Director General, COAI

About ITU-APT Foundation

ITU-APT Foundation of India (IAFI) is a non-profit, non-political, non-partisan Industry foundation registered as a society under the Societies Registration Act, 1960. IAFI is working for last 18 years with the prime objective of encouraging involvement of professionals, corporate, public/private sector industries, R&D organizations, academic institutions, and such other agencies engaged in development of Indian Telecom sector in the activities of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the Asia Pacific Telecommunity (APT).Read More