I.T.U. technical assistance to African countries

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UNITED NATIONS

ECONOMIC

AND

SOCIAL COUNCIL

^ i' i - '■. ^X'3 January 1962

ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR AFRICA Fourth soscion

Addis-Ababa, February - March 1962 Provisional Agenda itom 12

I.T.U, !I5iJCHUICAL ASSISTANCE TO AFRICAN COUNTRIES

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.'T.U-.' Tocbhical

. The I.T.U* has drawn up :-a Technical-Assistance programme for twenty-four African'countries. The following is a brief-description of the position with regard to the projects already under way, ■

CONGO (Leopoldville) : ,

... In August, I960, theT.T.U. despatched a specialist mission,

to restore and'maintain the Congolese network. The experts were

apportioned among the main towns and helped the Congolese staff to operate telegraph, telephone, and radio equipment. At present, there are twenty-one of them, plus a head-of-mission to coordinate I.T.U.

action with that of the Congolese authorities within the general United Nations emergency.programme.

Besides this, plans have been made for technical training.

Students are to be brought to Europe and a telecommunication training centre is to be set up in the Congo. All this comes under the help boing rendered to the Republic of the Congo by the United Nations,

EGYPT :•"■'■ ■

Four experts will leave for Egypt to consider various aspects of the telecommunication network, including telegraph and telex equipment and the use of radio-relay systems for internal communications.

ETHIOPIA :_ "....■

; .The Telecommunication Institute continues its work, begun in

1954* It trains staff at various'levels for the Ethiopian Telecommunica

tion Administration. More than six hundred pupils have attended courses.

A-training expert has already been sent by.I.T.U.

■ - .. :'. GUINEA : ' ■ " • ,.' ..;■■■■ -,

An expert in the planning of networks is at present on mission*

UNITED KINGDOM OF LIBYA :

There are two T7FJJ, projects under way, one under the Special Fund, the.other under the Expanded Programme.1 The Special Fund project provides for the creation of a-training'centre. . The Libyan Government cooperates by providing the.requisite buildings. Training equipment will

also be provided. ' _..■ ■

The Technical Assistance provided under the Expanded Programme consists of the despatch of an expert to consider network plans, A second expert will take over a previous mission, undertaken with a view to

helping the radio authorities in frequency usage questions.

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-MOROCCO::-

A broadcasting expert, requested by the

^began

SUDAN :

T U. experts aro helping to train staff by giving courses

in the J^slhool^ by the Sudanese P.T.T. One deals «th earner

transmission problems, .tho other with wireless circuits..

TOGO :•-..■■ ■■ ■ ' ■■ ■

An export is to make a general investigation into' problems of e^ equipment, and to advise the Government on how to

inprove it,

. : TUNISIA : . ' ■ ■ :-,■-.-

: ; Scholarships have been awarded to officials frorn !the Tunisian

Administration for further study in Europe.

echnical Assistance progranoes,

the Niger, Madagascar,

communication media and will assess

throughout Africa

the" study of a general

r,-Mauritania, Nxgerxa,. and. Mali-

African countries.

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