Wisit Atipayakoon
Programme Officer, ITU Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific
Mr. Atipayakoon joined the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in 2005 as a
Telecom/ICT Specialist in the Telecommunication Development Bureau (BDT) based in the
ITU Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok, Thailand. He is currently a regional
focal point for emergency telecommunications, universal service obligation, rural ICT
development, ICT applications, ICT accessibility for Persons with Disabilities.
Bringing with him many years of professional experience in telecommunications, ICTs and
project management, he has implemented a number of projects such as: Universal
Service Obligation (USO) policy and implementation, ICT application development for
rural communities and telecentres, Rural/outer island communications in the Pacific, textto-speech development, spectrum auction, telecommunications licensing framework,
etc.
Prior joining ITU, he worked for Lucent Technologies in Thailand and in Singapore, Global
Crossing (Singapore), , and SAS (Thailand) whereas he practised engineering and
management in transmission network design and implementation, sub-sea cable
networks, data mining and data warehousing, business process reengineering and
continuity programme. Wisit received his Bachelor Degree in Computer Engineering from
King Mongkut Institute Technology of Ladkrabang in Bangkok, Thailand and is a certified
Project Management Professional (PMI/PMP) and a certified SAP consultant.