The BDT Director signed two new projects with the Government of Australia, under the Framework of the MoU between ITU and the Government of Australia.
The project titled 'Feasibility study: Addressing the special telecommunications/ICT needs of the Pacific Small Island Developing States (PSIDS)', aims to create an enabling institutional mechanism to accelerate digital transformation in the Pacific.
This will be achieved by conducting a situational analysis and needs assessment to identify specific telecommunications/information and communication technologies (ICTs) needs common to the Pacific region, and specifically the beneficiary PSIDS.
The project titled 'Creating a Circular Economy for Electronics and Electricals in Thailand and in Mongolia' is in line with ITU's Programme of Work on Greening Digital Transformation and Creating a Circular Economy for Electronics. It aims to create sound recommendations for a regulatory framework for the governance of e-waste management under extended producer responsibility (EPR) in Thailand and Mongolia.
Given the current regulatory status for e-waste management in Thailand, the project will build on the experiences of previous ITU projects. It will boost the existing steps being taken to regulate e waste in Thailand through the provision of technical assistance to develop a proposal for a sound legal framework, administrative arrangement, and financing mechanism to implement EPR principles in the national regulation of e-waste management. Based on the current system of managing and regulating e-waste in Mongolia, the project will develop a report detailing recommendations for a proposed legal framework for the management of e-waste taking EPR into account. Such coordination may include knowledge sharing between beneficiary countries relating to their e-waste management approaches, which would be achieved through inviting relevant speakers to participate during the respective consultation processes.
