Increasing Role of Public Private Partnerships in the ICT Ecosystem: 25 Years of Telecom/ICT Sector Reform in Europe, and Beyond

For a long time ITU has been working with its membership in the area of PPPs, building necessary capacity to develop an enabling environment, identify opportunities, negotiate, manage, and implement successful PPP projects. The 14-15 November 2012 an ITU Experts Group Meeting for Europe on the Increasing Role of PPP in the ICT Ecosystem - 25 Years of Telecom/ICT Sector Reform in Europe was held in ITU Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland. The meeting was organized by ITU in cooperation with the Center for Communication, Media and Information Technologies (CMI), Aalborg University, Denmark.
The main purpose of the meeting was to take a closer look at the Telecom/ICT reform in context of the increasing role of PPPs in the ICT ecosystem, define existing challenges and develop recommendations that might be addressed at the regional level and might be further elaborated within the framework of the Regional Preparatory Process of the World Telecommunication Development Conference (WTDC-14).
The outcome of the meeting is captured in this meeting report including a set of PPP case studies and a set of recommendations, and the establishment of an expert group network to be involved in future PPP initiatives.