A gender declaration on Promoting Gender Equality, Equity and Parity in the ITU Radiocommunication Sector has been adopted at WRC-19. WRC recognizes need to accelerate efforts towards gender equality, equity and parity in ITU community. The ITU Communiqué is available HERE and the BR Director’s Statement on the declaration is available HERE
Programme at WRC-19, Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt
WRC-19 coming soon! Follow the third series of interviews with leading women and men in Radiocommunications and celebrate with us the International Girls Day: Women mentors share advice about careers in radiocommunications — and WRC-19. Please see ITU News October 2019 HERE
The mentorship programme that has started at the CPM19-2 meeting in Geneva, will reopen at the WRC19 conference to be held in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt in October 2019. In this edition, the focus will be on the technical topics and processes in relation to the WRC-19 Agenda items. This programme will cover the period of WRC-19 and continues afterwards in preparation for WRC-23.
If you are interested in participating in the mentorship programme and want to:
For questions, comments, or suggestions, please contact our facilitator on site or our coordinators:
Dr. Hanane Naciri (Hanane.Naciri@itu.int ) – ITU
Ms Jennifer Manner (Jennifer.Manner@echostar.com) – Echostar
Ms Luciana Camargos (lcamargos@gsma.com) – GSMA
The intent of the NOW4WRC19 initiative is to start building capacity early on in the World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC) process in order to encourage a larger participation of women as delegates, chairs, vice-chairs, etc., at WRC-19. Its main objectives are:
For questions, comments, or suggestions, please contact our facilitator on site or our coordinators:
Dr. Hanane Naciri (Hanane.Naciri@itu.int ) – ITU
Ms Jennifer Manner (Jennifer.Manner@echostar.com) – Echostar
Ms Luciana Camargos (lcamargos@gsma.com) – GSMA
Photos of Network of Women for WRC-19 events at CPM19-2 HERE
NOW is launching a series of interviews with leading women and men in Radiocommunications to give insights, to tell their stories and to show why more women should join this exciting field.
Interview with Jennifer A. Manner, Senior Vice President Regulatory Affairs, NOW Co-Chairs, EchoStar Corporation at ITU TELECOM WORLD 2019, Budapest, Hungary 9 – 12 September 2019. Video HERE