Tomas Lamanauskas, Deputy Secretary General, International Telecommunication Union ITU
- Tomas Lamanauskas is the Deputy Secretary-General-Elect of the International Telecommunication Union.
- Tomas has 20+ years of international senior, executive, and board-level leadership experience, at the intersection of infrastructure, digital technologies as well as government regulation and policy.
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Overview
The International Telecommunication Union is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for many matters related to information and communication technologies. In this episode, we have Tomas Lamanauskas who talks about the International Telecommunication Union. He talks about the workings of the ITU and his vision for it.
About Tomas Lamanauskas
- Tomas Lamanauskas is the Deputy Secretary-General-Elect of the International Telecommunication Union.
- Tomas has 20+ years of international senior, executive and board-level leadership experience, at the intersection of infrastructure, digital technologies as well as government regulation and policy.
- He has served as a head or deputy head of national regulatory authorities in three different regions of the world
00:38- What are some inflection points in your life?
- Growing up in a country that transformed into a developed country gave me plenty of opportunities.
- After a good start, I explored new and interesting roles and experiences.
- Lastly, I had some pit stops during my career. Pit stops gave me the opportunity to step back and think, what is the bigger world, what is the bigger picture?
11:55- What is your vision for ITU?
- I want to implement partnerships for connectivity. We want a really strong industry engagement and make sure that we have a strategic industry engagement.
- We want more industry engagement on strategic and direction-setting levels and actually helping UN member states understand where the world is going.
- The second topic is sustainability and making sure that we play a role in addressing the climate crisis.
- We want to make sure the operational stuff is fast, efficient, responsive, and close to the members, so we can implement faster and be accountable.
19:09- Can you talk about the partnership of the connectivity program of the ITU to address connectivity issues?
- We want to make sure that different issues of connectivity are addressed in with regard to the climate crisis or Sustainable Development Goals.
- If the ITU brings the right partners around the table and convenes them in a compelling way, we can have great results.
- We have close to 30 billion worth of pledges and but we have to make sure those pledges translate into real action.
26:24- What are your recommendations to the audience?
- Don’t be despondent looking at the world today, keep the hope up and keep the action up.
- The digital world will make our lives better.
- Contribute to facing our challenges of today including requirement crisis.
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You can connect with Tomas Lamanauskas | LinkedIn
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- Tomas Lamanauskas is the Deputy Secretary-General-Elect of the International Telecommunication Union.
- Tomas has 20+ years of international senior, executive and board-level leadership experience, at the intersection of infrastructure, digital technologies as well as government regulation and policy.
- He has served as a head or deputy head of national regulatory authorities in three different regions of the world.
