He urged the technologically advanced countries to engage their resources and creative energies in assisting the least developed countries to build their technology infrastructure and expertise.

Infrastructure strategies give emphasis to the improvement of trunk infrastructure networks.

Failure to give priority to ICT strategies that enable developing countries and countries in transition both to develop their national infrastructures and to join the GII will exacerbate the gap between rich and poor.

The principal questions for developing countries and countries in transition as they move to develop their NIIs and to connect with the GII are the following. What economic, political and social resources can be used, even by the poorest countries, to develop their distinctive NIIs and to join the GII in a way that maximizes the social and economic benefits for these countries?

Well, steal their own infrastructure, at first.

Infrastructure, infrastructure, infrastructure and discipline.

While increased investment in infrastructure at the national level is vital, there should be a clear recognition of the need for more affordable, smaller scale and environmentally sustainable infrastructure that targets the needs of the poor as the highest priority.

Most land locked countries have well developed airport infrastructure facilities, but the freight collection and distribution systems, as well as the storage facilities, are in many cases still very inadequate.

Owing to the importance of infrastructure development to developing countries, the planning and selection of infrastructure projects should form a cornerstone of national strategic planning.

Priority two Infrastructure development and maintenance

Lack of infrastructure had been a key factor in hindering the ability of LDCs to benefit from market access initiatives taken in their interest.

(b) Requirements in the poorest countries with weak infrastructure and operations management capacity, and in countries emerging from conflict or natural disaster, for recuperation of damaged or destroyed infrastructure

4.2 Active ICT strategies for the national information infrastructures

But that's what's lacking in a poor country.

TO IMPROVE INFRASTRUCTURES IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

4.2 Active ICT Strategies for the National Information Infrastructures22

It involves measures to build up each country s NII and to link this infrastructure with the GII.

Improved protection of critical infrastructure and facilities.

In the future, the design, development and deployment of user friendly satellites should be given the highest priority in the design and deployment of national, regional and international information infrastructures.

State infrastructure had been destroyed, State property had been looted and factories dismantled and exported.

As a result, massive infrastructural investments were made, dramatically improving the quality of the telecommunications infrastructure.

Similarly, infrastructure for a long time, infrastructure was not a priority.

LDCs counted on their development partners to provide financial support for such infrastructure.

Foreign investors preferred to invest in countries with better infrastructure, which was not available in least developed countries.

(b) Building of basic infrastructure

Country 1 has a systematic advantage over Country 2 in infrastructures.

Many of the poorest countries will need major capacity building investments to put in place and maintain the necessary infrastructure and to train and employ qualified personnel.

Priority is given to measures to attract foreign investors to ensure the development of the NII, including the telecommunication infrastructure, ICT applications involving software development and human resource training.

Seventh, the infrastructure of the agricultural produce market should be developed on the basis of a special state programme.

(a) Engineering infrastructure products, including economic infrastructure roads, bridges, ports, energy infrastructure, water supply and sanitation systems government infrastructure (office buildings, customs facilities, barracks) social infrastructure (education and health services infrastructure, community buildings)

Their social infrastructure, particularly in the areas of education, health and housing, continued to be hampered by debt service requirements.

Similarly, it had been the firepower of the forces that had invaded Afghanistan to drive out the Taliban that had been the cause of the destruction of national infrastructures.

It's the same. We need infrastructure, infrastructure and discipline.

Lachin town's physical and social infrastructure is well developed.

Without certain basic infrastructure, LDCs would never be able to develop properly and attract the investment necessary for sustaining long term growth.

Infrastructure Those of you who have traveled abroad know that our infrastructure is desperately lagging that of a growing number of countries. This makes it even harder for our companies to compete and prosper.

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The expansion of national infrastructures and connections to the GII are enabling access to databases holding technical and scientific information.

The NII needs to be designed so as to manage those risks.

The next step in developing the NII and connecting it to the GII is development of the ability to transmit this information from one site to another.

Support is provided through advisory services and contributions to national capacity building, which help to facilitate efforts to strengthen NIIs.

Its development plays a critical role in shaping a country's technological capabilities.

Many developing countries do not as yet have an optimal regulatory and institutional framework in place in respect of infrastructural services.

Specific emphasis is being placed on the reconstruction of infrastructure, communal utilities, and social infrastructure.

The Global Netciety scenario might emerge in which there would be opportunities for all countries to build their NIIs and to derive mutual benefit from the GII.