[WSIS CS-Plenary] UN News: UN task force reviews adequacy of global funding for information technologies

[Anriette Esterhuysen]

Hallo all

Willie Currie from the APC attended this meeting.  We will post a 
report from him as soon as we can.

Also, for the record, APC, communicated to UNSP that we felt it 
was essential that this process is inclusive and transparent both 
before and during the meeting. 

A further meeting will take place in November by which time we 
sincerely hope the process would have been clarified.

Best

Anriette Esterhuysen, APC


> I hope we also get reports from the outcomes of the meeting. 
> Did anybody here attend or knows more?
> 
> Ralf
> 
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> http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=12119&Cr=information&Cr1=
> technology
> 
> UN News Service
> 
> UN task force reviews adequacy of global funding for information
> technologies
> 
> 4 October 2004 – A United Nations task force today began examining the
> adequacy of funding worldwide for information and communication
> technologies (ICT), particularly in developing countries.
> 
> Chaired by the Administrator of the UN Development Programme, Mark
> Malloch Brown, the Task Force on Financial Mechanisms was born out of
> the first phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)
> last December in Geneva.
> 
> At the event, financing of ICT for development was one of two key
> issues left unresolved, the other relating to Internet governance.
> President Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal had proposed the creation of a
> Digital Solidarity Fund to bolster ICT in developing countries, while
> numerous western countries favoured using existing funding mechanisms
> instead.
> 
> The task force was set up to probe the matter further with a view to
> making a recommendation to the Summit's second phase, to be held from
> 16 to 19 November 2005 in Tunis, Tunisia.
> 
> Consultations during the two-day meeting in New York will involve
> representatives from the private sector, civil society, regional banks
> and commissions as well as individual experts. Inputs will also be
> mobilized through virtual discussions on WSIS-online.
> 
> 
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Anriette Esterhuysen, Executive Director
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