This Symposium is organized by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). Participants will focus on the issue of ICTs, the environment and climate change in Africa and the needs of developing countries. Topics to be discussed will include adaptation to climate change, e-waste, cost-effective ICT technologies, methodology of environmental impact assessment of ICT and financing of climate change solutions. The symposium will issue the “Cairo Road Map,” a set of recommendations for action in relation to ICTs, the environment and climate change.  

dates: 2-3 November 2010  
location: Cairo, Egypt  
contact: ITU  
e-mail: climate@itu.int  
www: http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/worksem/climatechange/201011/index.html