Institutional partnerships


As in previous years, in 2010 ICP-ANACOM maintained a number of institutional partnerships with national entities with relevance to the sector, seeking promotion of the communications sector.

These included ICP-ANACOM's activities as founder of FPC - Fundação Portuguesa das Comunicações (Portuguese Communications Foundation), with the direct monitoring of the activity of the bodies in which it is represented. In the second half of 2010, ICP-ANACOM's presence in the permanent exhibition of Museu das Comunicações (Communications Museum) was revamped, bringing it into with ICP-ANACOM's new institutional image and providing new educational and recreational activities, including an update to the "Admirável Mundo das Comunicações" game. ICP-ANACOM also sat, as usual, on the jury of the "FPC Prize".

In partnership with CTT, ICP-ANACOM participated in organizing the 2010 edition of the "Best Letter" competition targeting young residents in Portugal aged between 9 and 15. The chosen theme of this year's competition was "Write a letter to someone to explain why it is important to talk about AIDS and to protect yourself against the disease". The prize ceremony took place during the celebrations of World Post Day on 9 October. The winning letter was sent to the Universal Postal Union (UPU) to represent Portugal in this organization's international letter-writing competition, and went on to receive an honourable mention.

In 2010, ICP-ANACOM maintained institutional relationships with various organizations, including APDC - Associação Portuguesa para o Desenvolvimento das Comunicações (Portuguese Communications Development Association), APDSI - Associação para a Promoção e Desenvolvimento da Sociedade de Informação (Association for the Promotion and Development of the Information Society), APMP - Associação de Promoção do Multimédia em Portugal (Association for Promoting Multimedia in Portugal), Obercom - Observatório da Comunicação (Observatory for the Media), API - Associação Portuguesa de Imprensa (Portuguese Press Association) and AFCEA - Associação para as Comunicações, Electrónica, Informações e Sistemas de Informação para Profissionais (Association for Communications, Electronics, Information Systems for Professionals).