The conference seeks to provide new vision and direction to ITU to facilitate the worldwide growth and development of telecommunications and information and communication technologies (ICT) everywhere and for the benefit of all. The conference is being held at a time when the telecommunications sector and the ICT industry are coming to grips with new trends in convergence.
ITU's Plenipotentiary Conference, which is held every four years, adopts the Union's Strategic and Financial Plans, and develops new policies as necessary in the light of recent and forthcoming developments in industry.
The conference will also elect the leadership at the helm of an organization which has been at the cutting edge of helping the world communicate over the past 141 years, earning it the distinction of one of the world's 10 most enduring institutions.
