Space WARC: The stake of developing countries

This article provides an overview of the basic issues on the eve of the WARC-ORB 85 Conference. Professor Rutkowski argues that developing countries have more at stake in achieving a flexible, yet equitable, result than do the industrialized countries. The answers lie in skilfully blending all the processes used by the ITU over the years to assure that all the interests of developing countries are met, and to allow full participation of these countries in the current telecommunications revolution.