Ing. Kwame Baah-Acheamfuor, Ghana’s representative at the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), set the bar high at this year’s ITU Plenipotentiary Conference (PP-22) by facilitating solutions on enduringly contentious topics two days before the conference’s conclusion.
The PP-22 conference is still going on in Bucharest; it began on September 26 and is scheduled to end on October 15.
Kwame Baah-Acheamfuor, who is admired for his illustrious career and lovable nature, guided delegates to accomplish that extraordinary feat two days before the deadline.
In a statement, the ITU remembered that although delegates spent numerous nights and weekends debating, it took until nearly 20 hours on the conference’s last day for agreements to be reached.
But this year, Kwame has led the world to achieve that two clear days ahead of the final.
According to the statement, the ITU PP-22 Conference, which is hosting nearly 4,000 delegates from 193 countries with the aim of a greening conference, worked from 8:00 am to 9:00 pm daily except for Sundays.
Kwame chaired the Working Group of the Plenary, which negotiated 89 proposals from countries and resulted in approving two new Resolutions and updating 21 Resolutions.
The first new resolution agreed upon was on Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies and telecommunications/ICTs, and the other was the Role of telecommunications/ICTs in mitigating global pandemics.
There were no changes to the resolution OTTs and another resolution on ITU’s role with regard to international public policy issues relating to the risk of illicit use of information and communication technologies.
Kwame Baah-Acheamfuor has been Ghana’s Focal person to the ITU and Councillor to the ITU Council.
For the first time in Ghana’s relations with the ITU, Ghana was re-elected to the ITU Council for 2023 to 2026 and elected Rev. Ing Edmund Yirenkyi-Fianko to the ITU Radio Regulations Board.
