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Council Working Group for
Strategic and Financial Plans 2020-2023
Second meeting – Geneva, 11-12 September 2017 /
Document CWG-SFP-2/10-E
25 August 2017
Original: English/Russian
Contribution from the Russian Federation
Draft Revision of Resolution 71 (Rev. Busan, 2014)
Summary
The document presents proposals for the modification of the structure and content of the ITU Strategic Plan for 2020-2023 (Resolution 71 (Rev. Busan, 2014)).
Actions required
CWG SFP is invited to consider the proposals below when preparing the draft Strategic Plan (draft revision of Resolution 71 (Rev. Busan, 2014)).
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References
Documents: Resolution 71 (Rev. Busan 2014); C17/123; Council-17 Resolution 1384; Resolution 151 (Rev. Busan 2014); Resolution 72 (Rev. Busan 2014); Resolution of the UNGA “The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” ( ).

1 Introduction

According to the Council Doc. C17/123 (§ 6.2), the general structure of ITU Strategic Plan for 2020–2023 was adopted, and it was decided to label the Plan as Annex 1 to Resolution 71; and Annex 2 to Resolution 71 (Rev. Busan, 2014) shall contain the analyses of background situation taking into account the expected Telecommunications/ICT development trends, as well as provisions of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development relating to economic, social and ecological components.

Analyses of the ITU Strategic Plans adopted by PP-2006, PP-2010, PP-2014 leads to the conclusion that the structure and content of the Strategic Plan could be improved, taking into account the past experience, to make a new Plan more concise and inclusive, and enable comparing of the ITU Strategic Plan indicators from different periods.

It is necessary to reduce a volume of general purpose information. For instance, the introduction (section 1) in Annex 1 to Resolution 71 (Rev. Busan, 2014) repeats the information which is contained in the ITU Constitution, as well as in the ITU Convention, and which did not add anything new for the formulation of the goals and objectives of the Strategic Plan draft. Such examples might be continued.

2Proposals

According to the above-mentioned reasons, it is proposed:

  1. To reduce background and other information of the Strategic Plan, particularly descriptive information, by avoiding duplication of the ITU basic texts (the Constitution, the Convention, the Administrative Regulations) in Resolution 71 (Rev. Bussan, 2014) and its Annexes.
  2. Adhere to Council-17 decision in Doc. С17/123 (§ 6.2) concerning the newly proposed structure of the Strategic Plan for 2020–2023, namely: "…to label the plan as Annex 1 to Resolution 71, while Annex 2 should include the background analysis".
  3. Annex 2[1] shall include the Table of Contents of the Annex. The title of Section 2 of this Annex should read as follows: "The general assessment of the implementation of the 2016-2019 Strategic Plan of the Union". It is recommended that the brief review of the implementation of the Strategic Plan be presented in tabular form, where planned and actually achieved results of the ITU activities during the given period should be reflected establishing links between various plans according to Resolution 72 (Rev. Bussan, 2014).
  4. In section "Global telecommunication/ICT targets" of Annex 1[2] (this is section 3.2.2 of Annex 2 to the current Resolution 71 (Rev. Busan, 2014)), parameters (targets) should be included, that provide the indicators included into the ICT Development Index (IDI), and, to the extent possible, the indicators reflecting the level of household ICT usage taking into account results of the World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Symposium (WTIS).

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[1] In the context of § 2 of this Document

[2] In the context of § 2 of this Document