Over the past quarter century, ITS has served as a dynamic and enduring forum in which leading academics, industry experts, and regulators, among other practitioners in the field of telecommunications, could identify, explore, analyze, reflect upon and debate the major policy and technical issues of the day. The express purpose of encouraging these studies and deliberations has been to develop a better understanding of the linkages between technology, industry structure and telecommunications services on the one hand and economic growth, development and social policy on the other. ITS has accomplished this through its biennial and annual regional conferences, seminars, symposia and various publications, including the journals it has included as a part of the benefits of membership in our organization.

It is important to remember that the ultimate goals of ITS – as a non-aligned and non-profit forum encompassing academic, private sector, and government communities – to share knowledge, stimulate new ways of thinking about important economic and social issues, and develop new approaches to problem solving and advancing social and economic welfare, would be unattainable without a committed and hard-working core of volunteer organizers and financial sponsors.

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