The ABU President, Yoshinori Imai, has been appointed a founding Commissioner of a new United Nations commission on broadband. The Broadband Commission for Digital Development brings together leaders in government, business, civil society and international organisations at the invitation of the heads of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and UNESCO. Its role is to provide broad policy guidelines for the development of a strategic framework to: Accelerate the deployment of universal access to broadband networks for the scaling-up and fast-track achievement of the Millennium Development Goals and other priority development programmes; Advise and assist on advocacy and outreach strategies in support of innovation, investment and user needs, ways to strengthen and expand partnerships, and innovative financing mechanisms; Help identify effective, innovative, sustainable and timely projects and activities which are suitable to be supported by the commission. Imai, who is also executive vice president of NHK-Japan, said exploring ways to resolve the digital divide so that everyone could benefit equally from technical innovation was a significant and pressing issue for both the ABU and NHK. The commission will complete its work within six months. It will meet in Geneva in July and New York in September before sending its final report and recommendations to the UN Secretary-General.
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