Assembly/AU/Decl.1(XIV) Page 3 reaching out to our populations in rural areas and the digitalisation of the broadcasting technology in Africa; 2. iv) DEVELOP programmes and actions on training, acquisition of basic competences in Communication and Information Technologies and on capacity building, particularly for national and regional regulatory organs; v) PROMOTE research and development actions as well as an environment favourable to innovation and entrepreneurship in the sector with a view to finding solutions and services suited to the conditions and needs of African users; vi) SUPPORT the effective operationalization of the Forum of Telecommunications Regulators’ Assembly as a non-binding Body, and the activities to create local content and socio-economic services adapted to Africa’s development imperatives and implement cyber-strategies that guarantee security, freedom, confidentiality and the development of each and everyone; vii) ENCOURAGE harmonization and efficient management of radio frequency spectrum, at both the national and the regional levels, of the scarce resources of the sector (radiofrequency spectrum, numbering plans, etc) and promote a coordinated approach for the efficient development of broad band services; viii) PROMOTE favourable regulatory environment for the implementation of innovative public-private partnership and financing models, the sharing of infrastructure, favourable taxation on ICT equipment as well as all the measures needed at national and regional levels to lower the tariffs and provide better quality of service in the sector. REQUEST the Commission to: i) set, in collaboration with the Regional Economic Communities, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, the International Telecommunication Union, higher education and research institutions and the ICT-sector specialised institutions in Africa, an African digital agenda identifying the main stages towards the establishment of an harmonized African ICT market by 2020. Adopted by the Fourteenth Ordinary Session of the Assembly in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on 2 February 2010