(iv) Technical material development and maintenance of a portal for information and communication technology partnerships and networks (2) development and maintenance of a Web based platform for measuring the Information Society (2) maintenance of ESCWA home page on information and communication technology and profile of information and communication technology and the information society in ESCWA member States

Information society and mobility (communications)

AISI African Information Society Initiative

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Consolidating regional cooperation in order to build information societies was one of the main goals of the World Summit on the Information Society.

Create an inclusive information society, put the potential of information and communication technology at the service of development, address new challenges of the information society and ensure the success of the second phase of the World Summit on the Information Society, to be held in Tunis in November 2005

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(c) Three workshops on the importance of AISI, utilizing information and information technology to build competitiveness of African economies and society

The objective of the ESCAP subprogramme on ICST is to meet the targets established in the Plan of Action of the World Summit on the Information Society with a view to achieving the information society.

Mr. Limon (Suriname) said that ICT was needed to support socio economic development, and that access to ICT was critical in building the information society.

Recalling also the World Summit on the Information Society,

(c) Three workshops on the importance of AISI, utilizing information and information technology to build competitiveness of African economies and society

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National initiatives include the United States Task Force on the National Information Infrastructure, the Danish INFO 2000 project, the Canadian Information Highway Advisory Council on the Information Society, consideration of the role of citizens in the European Information Society in the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom s Information Society Initiative.

(a) Symposium on the African Information Society Initiative (AISI), the contribution of ECA to the Conference on the Knowledge for Development in the Information Age, including a multi media presentation on AISI

The World Summit on the Information Society should examine the question of information security more comprehensively than it had in the past.

Stresses the importance of building a people centred and inclusive information society so as to enhance digital opportunities for all people in order to help bridge the digital divide, putting the potential of information and communication technologies at the service of development and addressing the new challenges of the information society, and in this regard calls for the implementation of the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society

Stresses the importance of building a people centred and inclusive information society so as to enhance digital opportunities for all people in order to help bridge the digital divide, putting the potential of information and communication technologies at the service of development and addressing new challenges of the information society, and in this regard calls for the implementation of the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society

Taking note also of Economic and Social Council resolution 2003 56, in which the Council invited the Commission to interact closely with the Information and Communication Technologies Task Force to promote greater information exchange and coordination of activities in the field of information and communication technologies in order to contribute to the World Summit on the Information Society,

(a) Training modules for planners and decision makers on the following (i) the importance of AISI (ii) developing African information content and (iii) how to utilize information and information technology to build competitiveness of African economies and society, in 1998

We live in a society that's obsessed with presenting information in this way, teaching information in this way.

The Regional Action Plan towards the Information Society in Asia and the Pacific is a further step in the direction envisaged in the Regional Road Map towards an Information Society.

Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific resolutions

A panel on national implementation and ICT would also be organized during the World Summit on the Information Society.

9.102 The Communications and Information Management Service, reporting to the Under Secretary General, is responsible for providing information technology and communications services to the Department, including the development and coordination of access to electronic information resources in the economic and social fields.

2.6 Benefiting socially and economically from ICT innovations

See ESCAP, Regional Road Map towards an Information Society in Asia and the Pacific (ST ESCAP 2283).

The information society (e governance, e administration, e democracy).

Information technology is a key factor for socio economic development.

16. Stresses the importance of building a people centred and inclusive information society so as to enhance digital opportunities for all people in order to help bridge the digital divide, putting the potential of information and communication technologies at the service of development and addressing the new challenges of the information society, and in this regard calls for the implementation of the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society See A C.2 59 3 and A 60 687.

Build a people centred and inclusive information society so as to bridge the digital divide, put the potential of information and communication technologies at the service of development and address new challenges of the information society by implementing the outcomes of the Geneva phase of the World Summit on the Information Society and by ensuring the success of the second phase of the Summit, to be held in Tunis in November 2005

2.6 Benefiting socially and economically from

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Finally, UNCTAD should continue supporting the WSIS process to ensure that the economic aspects of the information society were adequately treated, as had been done through the WSIS thematic meetings on the economic and social implications of ICT and on measuring the information society.

World Summit on the Information Society, Geneva

The Commission had received some information from NGOs, but in the absence of substantiated evidence, it could not officially present that information.

And most importantly, they had this ethos of sharing information.

The principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights were the very foundation of the information society.

Information technology has a greater impact on our society than ever before.

Developing regular exchanges of information and views with civil society

Access to social communication means does not always mean more correct information.

ICTs do not offer a panacea for social and economic development.