Member States of the International Telecommunication Union or ITU have re-elected Houlin Zhao of China as its Secretary-General to lead UN Information and Communication Technology or ICT for the next four years.
According to a statement CRN got, the election took place in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, during the plenary session of the conference on Friday morning.
Zhao won the position with 176 votes, from 178 ballot papers deposited and contested the position unopposed.
The ICT engineer, who has served in a variety of senior management positions at ITU, will begin on 1 January 2019.
Zhao pledges that ITU will continue to connect the unconnected.
‘We are strengthening partnerships to implement our common vision of a connected world, where information and communication technology is a source for good for everyone everywhere’, he adds.