Policy and Market Analysis

The ITU's Strategy and Policy Unit (SPU) publishes a number of publications on ICT market trends, emerging technologies, policy and regulation. The Unit focuses on “hot topics” of high current policy interest to Member States and Sector Members, and of general interest to students, academics, consultants and industry players worldwide. The ITU Internet Reports series (published in line with PP Resolution 101), were launched in 1997, and span a decade of evolution of the Internet together with fixed and mobile telephone networks. The World Information Society Report, first published in 2006, tracks the implementation of the WSIS outcomes and progress in narrowing the digital divide. Other Publications, under the ITU New Initiatives and Shaping Tomorrow’s Networks Programmes cover a wide variety of subjects that have been discussed at meetings of high-level experts since 1999, raning from from Next Generation Networks to spectrum management, and from 3G to RFID. These are published in line with Council Decision 496.