Mr. Mario Maniewicz is the Deputy-Director of the International Telecommunication Union's Radiocommunication Bureau. Mr. Maniewicz has been with the ITU for more than 25 years, where he has held various positions of responsibility at ITU headquarters as well as in the Regional Offices in Peru, Chile and Brazil, leading activities towards fostering global telecommunications development.
During his tenure at ITU's Telecommunication Development Bureau, as Chief of the Infrastructure, Enabling Environment and E-Applications Department, Mr. Maniewicz directed ITU's efforts to assist developing countries in bridging the digital divide by promoting the use of ICT-based networks, services and applications, while ensuring the use of appropriate technologies to build or extend their information and communication infrastructure and adapt to the rapidly changing telecommunication/ICT environment. This includes the provision of guidelines and tools for the development of policy and regulatory frameworks, financing policies and strategies, development of telecommunication and IP-based networks, promotion of pervasive broadband deployment, digitalbroadcasting and spectrum management, as well as the use of reliable and cost-effective ICT applications while enhancing cyber-security. Mr. Maniewicz is also responsible for the Union's activities in the promotion of access and use of telecommunications and ICTsfor groups that have been marginalized in their access to current mainstream ICT services, including women, youth, indigenous people, persons with disabilities and people living in remote communities.
Before becoming Chief of Infrastructure, Enabling Environment and E-Applications, Mr. Maniewicz was Chief of Policies and Strategies at ITU's BDT, where he was responsible for the Union's activities in the policy and regulatory domain, human capacity building, ICT statistical data collection and analysis,and other development domains, including Internet and IP networks development. Previously, Mr. Maniewicz was Head of Human Capacity Building, where he was actively involved in promoting projects and activities in developing countries specifically related to Training, Human Resources Management and Development, Organizational Development and Managerial Development for Telecommunications. He was directly involved in the development of models and guidelines for the transformation of telecommunication organizations to better face a changing environment towards competition. He has helped governments, regulators and operators of developing countries in the definition of their organizational and managerial strategies and policies, the identification of their HR and Organizational Development needs, including training of top level managers of telecommunication organizations in modern management and competitive transformation related aspects. He has also broad experience in project management in various fields such as rural telecommunication development, frequency management and monitoring, transformation of the telecommunication sector, strengthening of regulatory agencies andtransformation of telecommunication operators, among others.
Originally from Uruguay, Mr. Maniewicz is an Electronic Engineer specialized in Telecommunications. Before joining the ITU he held both technical and managerial positions in the main telecommunication operator in his home country. He also worked as assistant professor at the Faculty of Engineering of Uruguay's main University.
