Argentina. The 7th Latin American Telecommunications Congress already exceeds 60 confirmed panelists for more than 20 activities around infrastructure deployment, innovation, regulation, competition, transparency, coverage, universal service funds, digitalization, industry 4.0 and security, among other strategic issues.
The forum, which is being held for the first time in Argentina, will allow sharing experiences and promoting debate between public and private sector leaders to promote policies that accelerate the closing of the gap and the digital transformation of Latin America.
In recent years, there have been significant advances in both internet coverage and access in Latin America and the Caribbean. However, according to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), 279 million people still do not use this service.
It is imperative to rethink key variables such as the management and availability of essential resources such as radio spectrum, the design and use of universalization funds, as well as to imagine new mechanisms that leverage investment in remote areas and where deployment and access costs still make the connectivity of low-income households unviable. These issues will be, precisely, the engine of the discussions that will outline the path towards the digitalization of Latin America.
To address these important discussions, the government participation of Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Cuba and Paraguay is confirmed; in addition to the leaders of regulatory bodies in 8 countries; and executives of the main companies in the sector.
N a key year for the future of 5G by the upcoming World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-19), CLT19 will feature international guests, including Ajit Pai, Chairman of the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and Grace Koh, Head of Delegation and US Representative to WRC-19. Also participating will be Chaesub Lee, Director of itU's Bureau of Standardization, and Roberto Sánchez, Director-General of Telecommunications of Spain. These guests join a remarkable program of regional leaders among which are:
- Andrés Ibarra, Secretary of Government for Modernization and Deputy Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers of Argentina
- Héctor Huici, Secretary of Information and Communications Technologies of Argentina
- Silvana Giudici, President of the National Communications Agency, ENACOM, Argentina
- Vitor Menezes, Secretary of Telecommunications of Brazil
- Luciano de Freitas, Regulatory Specialist, Agência Nacional de Telecomunicações, ANATEL, Brazil
- Pamela Gidi, Undersecretary of Telecommunications of Chile
- Iván Mantilla, Vice Minister of Connectivity and Digitalization of the Mintic of Colombia
- Carlos Lugo Silva, Executive Director of the Communications Regulation Commission, CRC, Colombia Gilbert Camacho, Member of the Council of the Superintendency of Telecommunications, SUTEL, Costa Rica
- Ana Julia Marine López, Deputy Minister of Communications of Cuba
- Ramiro Camacho and Mario Fromow, Commissioners, Federal Institute of Telecommunications, IFT, Mexico
- Alejandro Peralta, Minister of Information and Communication Technologies of Paraguay
- Nelson Guillén, President of the Dominican Institute of Telecommunications, Indotel, Dominican Republic
The event will be from July 1 to 5 at the Brigadier General Juan Bautista Bustos Convention Center in Córdoba, with an expected attendance of more than 400 participants. The debate will take place in different formats: a plenary session composed of panels, flash sessions, keynotes and fire-side chats, in addition to the academic meeting CPR LATAM, the Board of Directors of the Regional Technical Commission of Telecommunications of Central America (COMTELCA), the ITU Forum on radio spectrum management, and different workshops on universal service funds, hacking, IoT and security, internet governance and 5G.
