Second Summit of the Americas
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Meeting of the Rapporteur Group to Prepare for the WTSA will take place on May 23 in Brasilia, Brazil
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Santiago de Chile, April 1998
Telecommunications Section of the Plan of Action
signed by the Heads of State and Government
participating in the Second Summit of the Americas
Governments will:
- Establish strategies to support the development and continuous updating of a regional
telecommunications infrastructure plan, taking into account national plans, the need for
universal access to basic telecommunications services throughout the Region and the
evolution of Global Information Society.
- Work together in close cooperation with the private sector to rapidly build out the
telecommunications infrastructure in the Region, adopting strategies to make affordable
access available to all for basic telephone service and the INTERNET, such as implementing
the Inter-American Telecommunications Commission (CITEL) guidelines on value added
services and encouraging, the development of community information service centers that
provide access to basic telephone and value-added services, computers, the INTERNET and
multimedia services bearing in mind the diverse needs of the countries of the Region and
divergent levels of development.
- Promote, in cooperation with the private sector, the exchange and distribution of
information concerning regulatory matters such as universal access/service,
interconnection and the establishment of independent regulatory bodies, taking into
account the commitments made in the World Trade Organization's Agreements on Trade in
Basic Telecommunications Services (the GBT Agreement), developments in the Free Trade Area
of the Americas process, and the Declaration and Plan of Action adopted by the 1996 Senior
Telecommunications Officials Meeting held in Washington D.C. with a view to developing,
wherever possible, and subject to national constraints, best practice guidelines and
requesting when needed the assistance of CITEL, regional telecommunications organizations,
the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), the Inter-American Development Bank
(IDB) and others as appropriate.
- Foster, together with the private sector, the development of applications over
electronic networks, such as the INTERNET, broadcast television and radio, that taking
into account different socio-economic conditions and languages, will support education,
health, agriculture and sustainable rural development, electronic commerce and other
applications assisting small savers, Micro-enterprises and Small and Medium-size
Enterprises (SMEs) and modernization of the State.
- Encourage CITEL to address, with some urgency, studies of the standards coordination
aspects of the telecommunications infrastructure, including the areas of
Telecommunications Management Network (TMN) and Intelligent Networks (IN) so that the
network can evolve to meet the interconnection requirements and to support the
implementation of new applications in the regional context.
- Continue to examine ways to develop consistent regulatory approaches among member
countries leading to the promotion of greater commonality in the certification processes
for telecommunications equipment and to the establishment of a framework and to move
toward the negotiation and implementation of a Mutual Recognition Agreement (MRA) for
telecommunications equipment encompassing all the countries of the Region.
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