Eutelsat's KA-SAT satellite.

...a regional meeting of the Broadband Commission for Digital Development. The Broadband Commission was launched to meet the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals. The Commission is co-chaired by President Paul Kagame of Rwanda and Carlos Slim Helú, President of the Carlos Slim Foundation, with ITU Secretary-General Dr. Hamadoun Touré and UNESCO Director-General, Irina Bokova, serving as joint vice chairs.

The regional meeting in the Macedonian mountainous community of Ohrid, included a review of the major challenges faced in developing broadband access in South-East Europe. Eutelsat demonstrated the capability of the Tooway service provided via its KA-SAT High Throughput Satellite to extend broadband to rural communities scattered throughout the region's rugged mountainous countryside and to support Macedonia's e-government initiatives. The Executive Secretary of the EUTELSAT Intergovernmental Organisation, Christian Roisse, a founding Commissioner on the Broadband Commission, also signed a protocol today with the Macedonian Minister of the Information Society, Ivo Ivanovski, to promote satellite broadband using KA-SAT for government services, consumers and enterprises across the country.