More than any sane person needs to know about telecommunications

International organisations




Global organisations

• United Nations
• headquarters - New York
• UN ICT Task Force
• UN Internet Governance Forum
  
• International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
• UNESCO
• Headquarters - Paris
  
• Asia-Pacific Office - Bangkok
• Knowledge hub for Asia-Pacific: Communications and Information
• United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
  
• Competition and consumer policies
  
• United Nations Conference on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL)
  
• United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
• World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO)
  
• World Trade Organisation (WTO)
• World Bank Group
  • headquarters
  • economic research
• International Monetary Fund
• Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
  • headquarters - Paris
  • telecommunications
  • spam
  • competition and Global Competition Forum
• International Competition Network (ICN)
• Consumers International (CI)
  • Headquarters - London
  • Asia-Pacific - Kuala Lumpur
  • Africa - Ghana
    

Africa

• African Union (formerly Organisation for African Unity) AU
• Arab Regulators Network (AREGNET)
• Association of Regulators for Information and Communication in and East and Southern Africa (ARICEA)
• New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD)
• E-Africa Commission
• Fratel the association of Francophone regulators
• African Telecommunications Union
• United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)
• West African Telecommunications Regulators Association (WATRA or ARTAO in French)
  

Regional organisations:

• Arab Maghreb Union (AMU)
• Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA)
• East African Community (EAC)
• Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS)
• Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
• Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD)
• Southern African Development Community (SADC)
• Telecommunications Regulators Associations of Southern Africa

Americas

• Organisation of American States (OAS)
• CITEL
• Organisation Of Caribbean Utilities Regulators (OOCUR)
• Regulatel the Latin American regulators association
• US Federal Communications Bar Association (FCBA)
  

Asia-Pacific

• UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
• Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)
  • APEC Secretariat
  • APEC Telecommunications Working Group (APECTEL)
  • Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC)
• Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme (APDIP)
• ASEAN Telecommunications Regulators Council (ATRC)
• Asia-Pacific Telecommunity (APT)
• Pacific ICT Portal
• Pacific Islands Telecommunications Association (PITA) - Fiji
• Pacific Telecommunications Council (PTC) - Hawaii
• Regional Observatory of the Information Society in Asia and the Pacific (ROISAP)
• South Asia Telecommunications Regulators Council (SATRC)
• Regional Commomwealth in the field of Communications (RCC)

Europe

• Council of Europe
• Convention on cybercrime
• European Union
• Council of the European Union
  
• European Parliament
• European Commission
• home page
• Official Journal
• DG Competition
• Guidelines and Notices on the competition rules in telecommunications
• Merger cases - I.64.20
• list of national competition authorities
• DG Enterprise
  
• competitiveness policy
• DG Information Society
• July 2003 "new" legislative package
• Implementation reports
• e-Communications Consultation Task Force
• Communications Committee (COCOM)
• European Regulators Group (ERG) and the Independent Regulators Group (IRG)
• European Network Information Security Agency (ENISA)
  
• Radio Spectrum Committee (RSC)
  
• DG Internal Market
• DG Justice and Home Affairs
• Article 29 Working Group (Data protection)
• DG Internal Market
• DG Health and Consumer Protection
• DG Trade
• CIRCA
• European Radiocommunications Office (including CEPT)
• European Court of Auditors (ECA)
• European Court of Justice (ECJ)
• Economic and Social Committee (ESC)
• Committee of the Regions (COR)
• European Investment Bank (EIB)