Council Working Group for the Elaboration of the Draft Strategic Plan and the Draft Financial
Plan, 2008-2011
To M.-O. Beau
Chairman, Council WG on Elaboration of the Strategic Plan
Document: WG-SP-FP-06/02
28 November 2005
English
Subject: Submission of information from TSAG on the 2008-2011 Strategic Plan, as requested by the Council WG
With a view to elaborating the 2008-2011 Strategic Plan of the ITU, the Council Working
Group requested each Sector Advisory Group to review relevant sections of the 2004-2007
Strategic Plan and to provide information for elaboration of the 2008-2011 Strategic Plan.
TSAG, at its meeting of 7-11 November 2005, considered the request of the Council Working
Group and provides the following information (see Annex 1).
Best regards,
Gary Fishman
TSAG Chairman cc:
H. Zhao – TSB Director
R. Scholl – TSB Deputy to the Director
TSAG Leadership Team:
J. Boulvin
N. Kisrawi
A. Macchioni
O. Mironnikov
H. Okamura
S. Trowbridge
A. Zourmba

Annex 1
TSAG input to the ITU Strategic Plan (2008-2011)
1. Introduction
The Council Working Group on the Strategic and Financial Plans met on 27-28 October 2005 and it prepared a guideline document for the Sector Advisory Groups on the elaboration of the Strategic Plan of the Union (2008-2011). This appears in TSAG TD/157 (7-11 November
2005), and it states:
With a view to elaborating the 2008-2011 Strategic Plan of the ITU, the Council Working Group requests each Sector Advisory Group and the General Secretariat to:
1. Review the sections in the 2004-2007 Strategic Plan pertinent to their activities (i.e. Parts
II and III of the Annex to Resolution 71) in order to determine their continued relevance;
2. Following this review, propose a limited number of objectives (approx. 5) and a short mission statement, for input to the 2008-2011 Strategic Plan;
3. Illustrate the link between these objectives and the Union’s outputs as defined in the
Results Based Budgeting (RBB) Framework 1
4.
Identify 4 to 5 outputs that of are of particularly high priority (with the exception of intersectoral outputs).
In addition, the Working Group solicits comments on the relevance of the strategic orientations and goals of the 2004-2007 Strategic Plan (Part I of the Annex to Resolution 71).
This document provides the information to be included in the ITU-T portion of the Strategic
Plan and comments on other sections of the existing Strategic Plan, as requested by the
Council Working Group.
2. ITU-T Mission Statement
The proposed new Mission Statement for the ITU-T portion of the Strategic Plan is shown below:
5.1 The mission of the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector is to be the unique worldwide venue for industry and government to work together to foster the development and use of open, interoperable, non-discriminatory and demand-driven international standards that take into account the needs of users in order to create an environment where users can access affordable services worldwide regardless of underlying technology, particularly in developing countries.
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In Annex 4 of the Draft Budget of the Union for 2006-2007 , outputs are defined as Sector or inter-sectoral products or services representing the deliverables of a programme.
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These are not in priority order.
1 – Develop and publish the required global standards at the right time.
2 – Identify relevant areas for future standardization projects to be initiated within the ITU-T.
3 – Provide the most efficient, attractive and effective forum for the development of international standards consistent with the needs and interests of the membership.
4 – Promote the value of ITU-T to attract increased membership, recognizing members’ and non-members’ choice to commit their resources to ITU-T and other standards bodies.
5 – Respond to the needs of the membership and others by disseminating information and know-how by publishing and distributing relevant materials, in coordination and collaboration, as appropriate, with the other Bureaux and the General Secretariat.
6 – Cooperate and collaborate with the other ITU Sectors and standardization and other relevant entities.
7 – Provide support and assistance to the membership, mainly to developing countries, in relation to standardization matters, information and communication network infrastructure and applications, and in particular with respect to (a) bridging the digital divide, and (b) producing relevant training for capacity building.
4. Link between the ITU-T objectives and outputs
The boxes below to show how these draft new ITU-T objectives are linked to the ITU-T outputs.
Output
WTSA
WTSA Regional consultation sessions
TSAG
ITU-T Study Groups
Workshops
ITU-T Publications
ITU Operational Bulletin
ITU-T Gen. Assistance & co-operation
Promotion
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x
x x x
x
x x x x x
x x x x
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5. High Priority Outputs
The outputs that are of particularly high priority are shown below. These are not listed in any particular order of priority.
Output
Particularly high priority
WTSA x
TSAG
ITU-T Study Groups x x
Workshops
ITU-T Publications
Promotion x x x
6. Comments on the relevance of the strategic orientations and goals of the 2004-
2007 Strategic Plan (Part I of the Annex to Resolution 71)
No discussion took place regarding this part of the Strategic Plan. The membership was invited to send contributions to the Council Working Group on Elaboration of the Draft
Strategic Plan, which will meet in Geneva on 30 January 2006.
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