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First Summit of the Americas

Miami, USA, December 1994

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The 34 Heads of State met at the I Summit of the Americas that was held in Miami, USA, December 9 to 11, 1994, and established the following mandates regarding telecommunications.

13. Telecommunications and Information Infrastructure

A country's information infrastructure -- telecommunications, information technology, and broadcasting--is an essential component of political, economic, social and cultural development. The information infrastructure development needs in the Americas are immense. The governments of the Americas intend to meet these needs by engaging in multiple actions, where consistent with their respective governing laws, such as: encouraging private sector investment to increase participation in the telecommunications and information infrastructure sectors; promoting competition; implementing flexible regulatory regimes; stimulating diversity of content, including cultural and linguistic diversity; providing access to information networks for service and information providers; and ensuring universal service, so that the benefits of the information infrastructure will be available to all members of our societies.

Governments will:

Engage in ongoing discussions at the international level of the actions referred toabove and endeavor to take those actions in their own countries, taking account ofdomestic conditions and circumstances.
Undertake efforts to make government information more publicly available viaelectronic means.
Review the availability and interoperability of connections to international networksthat facilitate trade, improve education and improve access to health care.
Encourage major universities, libraries, hospitals and government agencies to haveaccess to these networks, building on the work of the OAS Hemisphere-Wide Inter-University Scientific and Technological Information Network.

Via the OAS Inter-American Telecommunications Commission (CITEL), and in coordination with the sub-regional telecommunications organizations, develop and carry out a work program to:

Evaluate regulatory, technical and legal means to promote liberalization, common standards, interoperability of networks and compatible use of the radio spectrum.
Examine ways to promote greater consistency of the certification processes for telecommunications equipment among member countries.
Develop regional guidelines for the provision of international value-added network services.
Support a meeting by 1996, coordinated by CITEL, of senior telecommunications officials to conduct further discussions of the above actions.