The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) has formally announced the launch of the #YESUAE Campaign across the nation’s most popular social networking platforms. The campaign is designed to garner wide spread national support ahead of the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) participation in the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference 2014 (PP-14) in Busan, Republic of Korea. On Tuesday September 23, 2014 at 10am, the public will also have the opportunity to pose questions – using the ‘#YESUAE’ hash tag – to the TRA about the event and its importance during a one hour open Twitter Q&A session.

“The UAE enjoys a strong relationship with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the upcoming Plenipotentiary Conference 2014 in Busan is a really significant event. A series of elections will be taking place at PP-14 and the UAE will be running for two very senior roles, a seat of the ITU Council and a position on the Radio Regulations Board (RRB),” said H.E. Mohamed Nasser Al Ghanim, Director General of TRA.

“The implications of PP-14 are so that the outcome of the event will have a substantial impact on the UAE ICT sector and its increasingly digital community. With that in mind, the TRA are committed to promoting the purpose of the event and generating awareness of the UAE’s participation in it. The TRA have long recognised the need to meet and inform the public where they are most active and in this case, on social media, and we look forward to engaging with the public over the coming weeks,” H.E. added.

Engineer Nasser Bin Hammad, TRA’s Senior Manager of International Affairs is the official UAE candidate for the seat on the ITU Radio Regulations Board and will lead on responding to the questions sent through using #YESUAE during the Twitter Q&A session. The public are able to send questions ahead of the session and the TRA has urged the public to pose questions related to PP-14 and the UAE’s participation generally.

In terms of the event itself, the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference 2014 will take place in Busan, Republic of Korea, from 20 October to 7 November 2014.

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