Monday, 8 June 2015

Airtel Africa announces sponsorship of the 2015 Global Symposium for Regulators


Bharti Airtel Africa yesterday announced it will sponsor the 2015 International Telecommunication Union Global Symposium for Regulators (GSR). The symposium will take place from June 9th to 11th 2015, Libreville Gabon.

The GSR conference whose central theme is “Mind the Digital Gap – Regulatory incentives to achieve digital opportunities” will bring together the leaders of international telecommunications companies and regulatory authorities to explore ways to benefits consumers with the emerging digital economy.

In addition to the partnership, Airtel Africa Chief Executive Officer Christian de Faria will participate in a leadership panel discussion titled ‘Funding an inclusive digital society from infrastructure to data’. The session will take place on Tuesday, June 9th 2015 from 10:15 am – 12:00 pm. The session will examine the various opportunities in deploying ICT networks, providing access and supporting the development of new services to bolster knowledge generation to reduce the digital gap.

“We look forward to continuing to strengthen our relationship with the telecommunications community of regulators” 

To support conference programming, Airtel Africa will be providing internet connectivity.


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