Professors K.R. Sreenivasan and S.M. Radicella were invited by the ITU Secretary-General Dr. Hamadoun Touré to a meeting at the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) headquarters in Geneva on 1 February, as a follow-up on ICTP's participation in the “Connect Africa” Summit held in Kigali, Rwanda, last October. The status and future developments of the collaboration between the ITU’s Bureau of Development of Telecommunications and the ICTP were discussed. Further discussions on a more definite plan will be held at the joint ITU/BDT-ICTP Workshop to be held at the ICTP on 28 February - 5 March 2008.

K.R. Sreenivasan and Hamadoun Touré