The Lack of Communication Occurring in the Committee Addressing Telecommunications

By the end of day one, tensions in the International Telecommunications Union continue to rise. This committee, despite having "communication" in their name, has tokened a reputation for not being very open to communicating, especially when the recipient in question isn’t a part of the same working paper.

Following the press conference of session three, where delegates were questioned about their failure to reach a compromise and their tendencies to look down upon other’s papers while praising their own, these diplomats still remain unable to restore diplomatic order. Despite understanding the importance of international collaboration, especially for this committee, as the leaders of connecting the world through digital technology, the delegates still fail to connect with each other. Only after presenting their papers, these delegates realized that they crafted similar, and almost same plans of actions. Each paper covers digital literacy education, building new infrastructure and collecting funding. After coming to this realization, delegates became distressed and hoped to prove their own paper would be the chosen one, resulting in the eruption of conflict as each group tried to prove their superiority.

This committee has actually reached a consensus on one fact, and one fact only, that being “our paper is the only best paper”. However, there is unfortunately more than one paper, and none of these delegates are willing to back down.

The delegate of Bangladesh proceeds to further prove that cooperation is not an option by criticizing every other working paper in his very next speech. This delegate seems to believe none of the other papers are realistic. This block generally seems to believe their paper stands out as the most practical, and hopes they will come out on top.

The delegate of Venezuela, claiming to want to achieve cooperation in a previous interview, even motioning for “a moderated caucus that will actually encourage people to talk about other block’s ideas, it’s literally ‘what do you like about other blocks’, ‘what ideas do you like from other blocks’ and I think that will bring it back around and support all blocks…”(Delagate of Venezuela) conflicts these beliefs and demonstrates something unbelievable in her next speech. A huge betrayal of character, this delegate proceeds to take notes sent by other delegates asking for compromise, and throw them on the ground to step on, while claiming their ideas are trash. It is possible that this is just a ploy to encourage the committee to start over and build up new ideas, but what it is really showing is how the delegates are feeling about each other.

It seems that due to various reasons, this committee just can't seem to completely cooperate. Perhaps there are unknown grudges boiling under the surface, or maybe these delegates just hope to protect these papers as a dragon would protect their gold. It seems that despite hoping to implement global cooperation, delegates themselves aren’t able to achieve that within this room. The fact stands that these delegates do not necessarily need to reach a compromise. The ITU is the board leading and monitoring global digital technology, they do not need to fix every small issue, but rather build a system inclusive enough for the whole world to jump onto the boat sailing into the digital world. In this committee, the goal should be to set standards for the rest of the world to follow. Which is why it is so important for these delegates to cooperate, these delegates are positioned in a place where they are there to set the standard for everyone to follow. If they remain in conflict, this world will never reach cooperation. Looking forward, the delegates should work through conflict with collaboration.

Work Cited

Delegate of Venezuela. Interview Segment. 29 May 2026.