Today we celebrate the 2004 World Telecommunication Day under the theme 'ICTs: leading the way to sustainable development'.
Designed by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and celebrated every year on 17 May, the World Telecommunication Day is a way to remember, through campaigns, exhibitions and other activities, the importance of the information and communication technologies for the development of societies.
This year and following the works of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), which was held in December 2003, Yoshio Utsumi, Secretary-General of ITU, underlines the importance and the role that the information and communication technologies (ICTs) may and should have in many different areas, contributing for the development of countries, namely in the developing countries.
In these celebrations, the Assistant Secretary of State for the Minister of Economy, Franquelim Alves, and the chairman of ANACOM, Álvaro Dâmaso, will attend the institutional session organized by the Portuguese Communications Foundation (FPC). This session will include the launch of the stamp and medal to celebrate the 100 years of the Lisbon/Oporto telephone connection in charge of CTT-Correios de Portugal and Imprensa Nacional Casa da Moeda, respectively, the inauguration of the new library of the Foundation and the House of the Future at the service of citizens with special needs and the exhibition on the 100 years of the Lisbon/Oporto telephone connection.
Further information:
- ''ICTs: Leading the way to sustainable development'' http://www.itu.int/newsroom/wtd/2004/sg_message.html
- Fundação Portuguesa das Comunicações https://www.fpc.pt/pt/
