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Step Three of the Open Consultation on Thematic Aspects and

New Innovative Format for WSIS Forum 2011

The purpose of this document is to provide a brief overview of contributions submitted. Please note that this document is a compilation of extracts from the contributions, and serves as a document that provides only a quick overview for your
convenience and is not an exhaustive list.

Official Contributions Submitted to the Process


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1 AFG CS AFA Association Cybersecurity Today the communicate system is becoming n/a n/a n/a n/a
des Fidèles the problem for the society. Because it is for the youth a
AZONNIYI system to steal and other problem as sexual under the age.
The pornographic system in cyber is not good for the
youth society.

2 AUL CS Griffith University I strongly believe that part of the 2011 WSIS Forum should n/a n/a n/a n/a
be used to formulate, in line with emergent ICT
developments, more current and realistic ICT indicators
which would permit greater accuracy in the measurement
and follow-up of WSIS targets. The Geneva WSIS Plan of
Action defined 10 specific targets to be achieved by 2015
to building an inclusive information society and it calls for
the establishment of ‘A realistic international performance
evaluation and benchmarking (both qualitative and
quantitative), through comparable statistical indicators and
research results, should be developed to follow up the
implementation of the objectives, goals and targets in the
Plan of Action, taking into account different national
circumstances’.

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The World Telecommunication/ICT Development Report


2010: Monitoring the WSIS Targets, a mid-term review,
recognizes that the WSIS targets ‘are not only very broad,
but also do not include measurable indicators, which
makes monitoring something of a challenging proposition
and international comparisons almost impossible’. To
address these challenges, this report interprets the targets
and proposes a number of indicators for benchmarking
that could be collected by countries before 2015. Although
some data are collected at the international level, only 45
ITU Member States responded to the 2009 ITU
questionnaire of the “Survey on the WSIS target”’. One
reason for it could be that some of the indicators selected
are too difficult to be collected by all the countries. In
addition not all targets are related to all WSIS lines. On the
other hand, the ICT Development Index (IDI), made up of
11 indicators covering ICT access, use and skill, does not
indicate which WSIS target is measured and which WSIS
action lines is connected with them. In this case 154
members have collected the indicators in 2009.

Perhaps new ICT realistic and comparable indicators need


to be formulated in accordance with today’s ICT
development which would permit measuring and following-
up the WSIS targets. Maybe it could be necessary to
harmonize both groups of indicators: WSIS targets
indicators and the IDI indicators. For example the following
indicators could be considered: 1. Percentage of the
population who visit a Website. 2. Percentage of the
population who use a social networking site. 3. Numbers
of domains per 1000 inhabitants. 4. Average No. of hours
spent online at home per person per year. 5. Average No.
of web page viewed per person per year. 6. Volume of
data downloaded (terabits) per year. 7. Internet traffic
index. 8. Percentage of business with internet access 9.
Percentage of business with web presence 10. Percentage
of business with internet access and broadband as main
type of connection. 11. Percentage of business which place
orders via the Internet o web 12. Percentage o business
which received orders via the Internet or web. 13.
Universal Service Obligation as a percentage of GNP. 14.
Numbers of cybercafes per 1000 inhabitants.

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3 AUL MI Internet Safety Three critical topics: 1. eGovernment - a top down, Name: Nigel Phair Organisation: I would be happy to organise a n/a I would be happy to organsie a
Institute bottom up approach to strengthening institutions and Internet Safety Institute, knowedge exchange on one the workshop on one of the below
democracy. 2. Protection of Civilians and Web 2.0 - the Australia, Bio: Nigel is a below topics: 1. eGovernment topics: 1. eGovernment - a top
specialist in cyber crime and speak
use of internet and mobile technologies to improve the - a top down, bottom up down, bottom up approach to
regularly both in Australia and
security of the population and people at risk. 3. Global approach to strengthening strengthening institutions and
internationally. He has
cooperation - a new framework for cooperation, mutual published an acclaimed book on institutions and democracy. 2. democracy. 2. Protection of
assistance and judicial action of cybercrime. the international impact of cyber Protection of Civilians and Web Civilians and Web 2.0 - the use of
crime and recently released 2.0 - the use of internet and internet and mobile technologies to
another focusing on prosecutorial mobile technologies to improve improve the security of the
issues. Nigel has provided the security of the population population and people at risk. 3.
executive advise as an internet and people at risk. 3. Global Global cooperation - a new
analyst, media commentator, cooperation - a new framework framework for cooperation, mutual
author and widely acknowledged
for cooperation, mutual assistance and judicial action of
as a specialist in the intersection
of society, technology and crime.
assistance and judicial action of cybercrime.
Among many career cybercrime.
achievements, he created and led
investigations at the Australian
High Tech Crime Centre for nearly
five years. Nigel holds adjunct
status at the Centre for
Transnational Crime Prevention,
University of Wollongong;
Australian Graduate School of
Policing, Charles Sturt University;
and the Centre of Excellence in
Police and Security, Australian
National University

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4 AUL CS University of New Addressing the new information poverty paradigm that Pat Loria (myself) Librarian n/a n/a n/a
South Wales includes "supermarket" knowledge or selective knowledge University of New South Wales
in the face of the information explosion in the 1st World, Sydney I have been an academic
librarian for over 10 years in
as well as the digital divide created by expensive and
Australia and I have a keen
inaccessible publisher platforms and government
interest in researching the
restrictions in the 2nd and 3rd Worlds. Solutions can concept of information poverty as
include lobbying governments on the economic and social it relates to diverse people
benefits of open access to information, and strategies for groups. I have published a paper
NGOs to pitch their message in the constantly changing in 2006 entitled "Information
location of the new public sphere. poverty in Australian state
schools" in the Journal of Christian
Education, at a time when several
Australian states were considering
the removal of religious education
from their curricula. I argued not
only for the retention of RE but
the inclusion of cultural literacy
right across curricula to enhance
inter-cultural tolerance and
understanding, and to enhance
student engagement with the
cultural and historical framework
of discrete subjects.
5 BGD CS Bangladesh NGOs Give more space for reviewing country level and regional n/a n/a Bangladesh stall on Role of Community Radio in WSIS
Network for Radio level WSIS implementaion plan and wayforward WSIS implementation Action plan mplementation
and views
Communication
6 BGD IO Brain-Storm I would like to discuss about "Poverty reduction through Professor Dr. Tim Unwin Mobile Phone Based health Care n/a n/a
Bangladesh ICT driven tools" and " Mobile Phone based application for University of London(Royal system in Bangladesh Over this
disadvantages and rural people in developing countries" Holloway). past decade the phenomenal
advancement of mobile
communications in Asian Least
Developed Countries has created
novel ways of improving and
handling socioeconomic affairs,
such as healthcare. This paper
seeks to establish a holistic
assessment on the scopes and
extents to which mobile telephony
based healthcare can be
incorporated as a development
enabler in Bangladesh. The country
is the home of more than 150
million people, which is expected
to reach 250 million by the year
2035. Majority of the population
live and work under the high risk of
infectious diseases, such as
diarrhoea, typhoid and the like.
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According to World Bank, the rate


of malnutrition in both women and
children are among the highest in
the world and more than 60% of
populations have no access to
modern healthcare facilities
whatsoever. Another 2008 UNDP
report indicates that more than
46% of the populations live under
the poverty line with marginal
access to wretched transportation
system nationwide. The residents
of remote rural areas where there
are hardly any community clinics or
hospitals in the vicinity have to
commute to a long distance even
for petty advice on minute health
conditions. On the contrary,
currently there are more than 58
million mobile subscribers nurtured
by 6 operators and a competitive
market had kept it affordable for
low income consumers so far.
Apart from its social and cultural
impact, the ubiquitous handheld
device is now seen as a key tool for
the alleviation of healthcare
problems.

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The purpose of this study is to
ascertain technological and social
gap between participant
organizations and beneficiaries of
such telephony based healthcare
initiatives. While doing so an
impact assessment on existing
mobile healthcare support in
Bangladesh has been attempted.
The findings of the study indicate
two impending facts; firstly, a
growing lack of awareness of
popular mobile based healthcare
services among rural market and
lastly, an absence of a standard
record keeping provisions by
private and government
stakeholders in terms of
maintaining patients’ record. The
study has reviewed some cardinal
case studies on similar mobile
healthcare projects in Asian
countries. Extensive literature
reviews, observation of existing
services, field visits, interviews of
targeted villagers and organizations
have been pivotal in developing the
final assessment in this study.

7 BGD CS OSDUY Learn and share my opinion n/a n/a n/a n/a

8 BGD CS Unnayan Topic: Improving Development Practices and Research n/a n/a n/a n/a
Shamannay with Social Media “ICT4Society” Description: This is a
network of social innovations creating an ICT4D community
& refers to share new ideas that meet social needs of all
kinds - from working conditions and agriculture to
community development & that extend & strengthen civil
society. Support us & start to share your ideas & best
practices to promote social development. For the first time
in Bangladesh, a social networking site with content is
going to appear for social workers, researchers and all
development practitioners. For more information please
visit www.facebook.com/ict4society

9 BRA GO Instituto Discuss the social intervention of the internet in the n/a n/a n/a n/a
Municipal de outskirts; The use of internet cafes as points of digital and
Pesquisas, social inclusion; Knowledge Sharing Network; Social
Administração e networking in the everyday lives of children and
Recursos adolescents.
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10 CMR CS 3SVISION topic that should be discussed at the Forum: - ICT n/a n/a n/a n/a
changes: cultural identity challenge in rural area - use ICT
to enhance local knowledge - ICT equipment for poors

11 CMR CS ANAPROCI Before a global meeting at Geneva, they should be regional Mr Indrajit Banerjee, Chief n/a n/a The contribution of social medias in
meeting in each continent. sector, Unesco's information the promotion of ICT
society division
12 CMR CS cOLLECTIF DES Les pays en développement pour certains sont encore très n/a n/a n/a n/a
FEMMES POUR LA familiarisés avec la société de l'information à savoir dans la
PROTECTION DE maîtrise de l'utilisation des outils que sont les Technologies
L'ENVIRONNEME de l'Information et de la Communication. Il est encore
NT ET DE nécessaire de mener une sensibilisation sur l'utiilisation de
L'ENFANT ces outils, car aujourd'hui le monde étant un village
planétaire, tous devront être en mesure de s'approprier de
ces outils, malheureusement le fossé est encore très grand
entre les pays du Nord et du Sud, surtout dans les zones
rurales des pays du Sud à cause du manque d'énergie
pouvant permettre les installations adéquates. L'utilisation
de ces outils en zones rurales devraient s'accompagner
avec les procédés de l'énergie solaire. Les goiuvernements
et le secteur privé devraient s'atteler pour investir sur ce
procédé pour permettre à tout d'un chacun de pouvoir
accèder à ces technologies qui deviennent impératif dans la
vie quotidienne et ceci permettre d'atteindre l'objetif en
2011.

Le forum de la socoété de l'information est l'occasion


meilleure pour toutes les parties prenantes de trouver des
voies et moyens pour que tous soyons connectés afin
d'assister aux grands événements du mond sans avoir
besoin de se déplacer étant donné que les transports pour
les déplacements deviennent de plus en plus coûteux et
surtout que les bailleurs de fonds et les gouvernements
n'offrent plus des facilités des voyages pour les organismes
de la société civile qui pourtant forment une plateforme
important pour la vulgarisation de la société de
l'information à travers les outils.

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13 CMR CS Fédération des -Quelle peut etre la contribution de la société civile dans la Nom:BAVINDI Etienne Sylvain; la persistance de la fracture Egal accès à -Société civile et N.T.I.C Details: -
Associations de diffusion de l'information? -Comment l'information peut Fonction:Coordinateur numérique entre le Nord et le l'information de tous! Organiser des ateliers pour montrer
Jeunesse de la elle constituée un fondement pour le développement des National Sud. Details:Montrer sur la Plaidoierie;Campagne l'importance des NTIC, pour leur
Haute-Sanaga sociétés modernes? -Faudrait il penser à une nouvelle Organisation:Fédération des base des informations d'Education, meilleure efficacité. -Initier des
pour le stratégie de réduction de de la facture numérique? -Peut- Associations de Jeunesse de la recueillies sur la base de ces d'information et de activités de sensibilisation et
Développement(F. on parler dans la réalité d'"accès à l'information pour tous" Haute-Sanaga pour le deux aires geographiques, les communications;prop d'information pour la meilleure
A.J.H.SA) dans les démocraties africaines? Développement(F.A.J.H.SA) limites du sud et les avantages osition de solutions. appropriation des NTIC par la
du nord à utiliser les NTIC société civile.

14 CMR CS Jeunesse Horizon TIC comme outils de Protection et de vulgarisation des n/a n/a n/a n/a
droits de l'homme (exemple de le Déclaration Universelle
des Droits de l'Homme) et des différents autres droits
votées par les Nations Unies. - TIC et Bonne Gouvernance:
développer ou promouvoir des solutions TIC visant la
bonne gouvernance dans les sociétés africaines.

15 DRC CS Action Large des Numeric management and public administration - Youth n/a n/a n/a Authentication of electronic
Femmes Avocates access to internet and Youth delinquancy documents with the growing of the
numeric technology, the Law should
also follow its step by specically
writing laws on the proof of
numeric mode by making safier
diffent transactions done throuth
the e-mail. The degree of the
authenticity of that document is
most of the time very low. This lack
of written laws in this area is
facilitating crookry and also is
creating insecurity in the business
world. As a consequence, it is
important that people of law
together with involved parties
exchange between them so that
they can propose some tracks of
solution in order to make safier the
individual by precising preventive
and penal measures.

16 DRC CS Architectes Sans The reduction of the digital divide n/a Some experiments n/a n/a
Frontières
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17 DRC CS CENTRE AFRICAIN * Critical Internet resources and linguistic diversity * n/a n/a n/a Internet and linguistic diversity in
D'ECHANGE Cybersecurity and Protection of Privacy * Cloud computing Africa Before the Internet, voice,
CULTUREL/ACADE and data protection video and data were stored and
MIE DES TICs transmitted by separate systems:
telephone, television, video and
personal computers. Today, all
these systems converge on the
Internet. Moreover the
convergence of networking
platforms, there are also other
types of convergence: * Level of
content: video on demand (VoD)
over IP and circuit Television (IPTV);
* Level business: companies
offering bundled services with
television, internet and telephony;
* At the hardware level: multi-use
device that combines email, phone
and internet .. In fact we are
entering an era of media
convergence.

Media convergence also affects the


increasingly mobile world through
the expansion of wireless
broadband networks. As
convergence moves and start
investing in next generation
networks (NGN) fiber optic
networks at very high speed "to the
home" playing an increasingly
important given the new
applications such as HDTV and
video on demand, very bandwidth
intensive. Issues of concern With
the migration to networks based on
Internet Protocol, a network can
carry many types of converged
services. This means that
governments are faced with the
need to overhaul their regulation of
broadcasting and
telecommunications.

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18 DRC CS Fondation des Violence situations in African countries and ways of n/a n/a n/a n/a
Oeuvres pour la solutions - Minority questions - Gender equality process
Solidarité et le
Bien Etre Social
"FOSBES ONG"

19 DRC GO Ministère des Access to ICT by people living in villages not connected to n/a n/a n/a L’accès aux TIC par les populations
Postes, the SSA. Participation, integration and training of vivant dans les villages non
Téléphones et indigenous peoples in various projects of new information connectés de l’Afrique
Télécommunicati technologies and communication. what the prerequisites subsaharienne. -Quelle société de
ons for achieving a real information society without excluding l’information pour les peuples
the less developed peoples of the world. autochtones de la forêt équatoriale
de l’Afrique centrale ? -Quelles
méthodes utilisées pour que cette
population s’approprie des TIC ? -
Les télécentres communautaires,
une solution ? -Les TIC
entraineront les modifications de
certaines habitudes, nouveaux
comportements ?

20 DRC GO Ministère des Online training of village administrators and the villagers to n/a n/a n/a This workshop is to think about
Postes, ICT through community telecenters. software and applications to set up
Téléphones et training for the target population
Télécommunicati (administrative and populations)
ons including: a. integrated
management of public finances; b.
integrated management of public
servants of the State; c. of the
secretariat, documentation and
archives; d. the file of cadastral
and habitat; e. file of the
population; f. the roster of
companies; g. E-health; h. E-
education; i. government portal.

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21 ECU CS Association for What are the key issues which need to be discussed at the Anriette Esterhuysen. Anriette n/a n/a n/a
Progressive Forum? The Association for Progressive Communications (APC) is the executive director of the
Communications, believes that the WSIS Forum should feature the following Association for Progressive
interconnected issues: access to the internet, internet rights as
APC Communications, an
human rights and a development agenda for the information
international network
society. Access Access to the internet is a fundamental issue
in any discussion on the Information Society. The mobile internet established in 1990, of
expansion has been a key factor to connect some parts of the organisations working with
world like. Despite the dramatic increase in access, there are still ICTs to support social justice
too many people all around the world who have limited and and development. Prior to
expensive access There is a lack of national and regional joining APC as a staff member,
backbone in regions like Africa and Latin America. Within this Anriette was executive director
issue, challenges and limitations for universal affordable access of APC member SANGONeT, an
to broadband should be discussed and solutions should be
internet service provider and
proposed. The rise of the mobile internet, including vertical
integration where mobile operators also run money transfer
training institution for civil
services, entertainment, content and other services, is another society, labour and community
important issue. Are new monopolies being established in the organisations in South Africa
process? The WSIS Forum should also consider the issue of net from 1993 to 2000. From 1987
neutrality both on the mobile internet and the traditional to 1992 she did information
internet. Mobile internet and mobile for development is a good and communication work in
theme for WSIS Forum 2011. It is a theme that is crosscutting for development and human rights
most Action Lines, it covers different aspects like mobile internet
organisations in South Africa
infrastructure, access to knowledge, net neutrality, etc. The
and Zimbabwe.
importance of public access to internet infrastructure should be
also discussed in the WSIS Forum. Internet rights as human
rights A discussion on internet rights as human rights at the
WSIS forum is not only timely, but also necessary.

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The APC believes that internet users should have the same rights She is a founder of
online that they have offline. This includes the right to freedom Women'sNet in South Africa
of expression and association, from which all other rights flow. and has served on the African
Recently we have seen these rights under thread and increased
Technical Advisory Committee
adoption of repressive legislation. Both access to the internet
of the UN's Economic
and the right to freedom of expression and association online are
facilitating rights and need to be treated as such. This means Commission for Africa's African
that in the information society these rights need to be seen as Information Society Initiative
indivisible. Policy and regulation need to be formulated from a and was a member of the
human rights based approach, ensuring protection of privacy and United Nations ICT Task Force
other rights of people in the internet, ensuring neutrality of the from 2002 to 2005. Currently
network and promoting community driven initiatives. she serves on the boards of
Furthermore, securing human rights in the internet environment GeSCI (Global e-Schools and
involves understanding rights frameworks, a wide range of
Communities Initiative) and
legislation and regulation at both national and cross national
boundaries levels, and the different ways of implementing
Ungana-Afrika. Anriette has
regulation and building consensus among different stakeholders published extensively on ICTs
of why freedom of information, expression and association on for development and social
the internet are so important to harnessing the potential of the equality.
internet for human development. Consensus is not a likely
prospect, but, during the WSIS forum there could be debate,
dialogue and learning. The WSIS forum should create the
opportunities for this to happen, through interactive sessions on
rights issues, and through thematic workshops and knowledge
exchange. A development agenda for the information society
The APC believes that the WSIS Forum should include a
development agenda for the Information Society.

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To do this effectively, the WSIS community --which includes


current and new participants-- needs to make concerted efforts
to include the participation of developing country stakeholders
and include development issues and developing country
concerns in the agenda. Internet governance for development is
more than 'development of internet governance' or even
'internet governance in developing countries'. It is about how
internet policy impacts on, and responds to, social, economic and
human development as well as how it impacts on the
environment. These impacts can be positive or negative. To
explore them will involve the WSIS Forum facilitating dialogue
between the internet community and development policy-
makers and practitioners, many of whom are not currently
engaged with these issues. To consolidate a development agenda
in the WSIS forum effectively we believe that is should approach
development from a sustainable development perspective.
Sustainable development involves consideration of human,
economic, and social development, and the impact of
development on the natural environment. Growth is not always
sustainable. Economic growth alone can entrench existing
inequalities in access to power and resources, and create new
ones, or it can challenge those inequalities: neither is inevitable.
The internet is an important element in protecting and
expanding the global information commons. The APC fully
supports economic opportunity, but not if it is at the expense of
the public interest. How the make the Forum more efficient and
effective? The WSIS Action line implementation and follow
process needs significant reform if it is to become a more
constructive platform for shared learning, collaboration,
networking and monitoring

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of the Geneva Action Plan and Tunis Agenda. Processes should
be: Participatory – for example, by putting clear mechanisms in
place for the effective engagement and inclusion of all the
interested parties, particularly of developing countries actors in
way that allow to fully integrate the multistakeholder approach
in WSIS follow up and implementation at all levels. Proactive - for
example, by coordinating initiatives across agencies and
stakeholder communities. Analytical - for example, by addressing
a small number of specific issues in detail. Evaluative - for
example, by monitoring activity related to WSIS outcomes.
Informative - for example, by facilitating exchange of information
between participant Appropriate methodologies (in on and
offline meeting spaces) need to be in place to facilitate each of
these different needs. Additionally, it is necessary to: Allocate
enough resources to support the multiple action line process.
Structure the WSIS action line process in a way that allow for
interested stakeholders to participate in ongoing activities.
Where does the potential added value of the WSIS Forum and
other WSIS follow up processes lie? For APC, it lies in the
potential to bring together different interested parties to discuss
critical issues which are not necessarily being fully addressed
elsewhere. It also lies in the opportunity to explore the interfaces
between different policy issues and the diverse perceptions
which different stakeholders hold about them, and the
challenges they represent for the future. The multi-stakeholder
approach should be reinforced in all processes related to the
WSIS Forum.

22 EGY CS Al salam org I would like to participate at this event and hope to n/a n/a n/a n/a
discusse things with others. Thank you Ms Rehab

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23 FRA CS TaC-Together The suggested topics are: * The importance of n/a We would like to organise a n/a n/a
against promotion of the culture of cybersecurity * Use of ICT Kick-off meeting. The theme
Cybercrime by vulnerable people, especially migrants and people with of the Kick-off meeting is: "ICT
migrant backround, (access, use, educational measures, and Youth with migrant
risks, etc.). background". We would like
to launch the discussion on this
topic and present to all
interested stakeholders our
initiative in order to develop
the further cooperation. We
would like also to present the
sociological study on the Use of
ICT by the young people from
difficult areas that we jointly
develop with the University of
Strasbourg.

24 GHA CS Abibimman Climate Change n/a n/a n/a n/a


Foundation

25 GHA CS Ghana Telecom 1) Schools and Communities ICT Project. Using new and Mr. Ebenezer Kwaku Ofori n/a theme: Your n/a
University College refurbished computer systems to Provide I.C.T. Atiapa : President of contribution toward
(GTUC-TESA) & Laboratories and Training for Public Basic Schools (Primary Technology Students' ICT Education and
EKOICT-Ghana & Junior High schools). Association Ghana Telecom Access in Africa.
University College PMB 100, about 8 x 8 feet stall,
Accra-North, Ghana with a desk, and three
chairs, a display
projector.

26 GHA CS Ghana Telecom Collaboration of ICT Youths, Associations and Societies Mr. Ebenezer Kwaku Ofori WAIYS Collaboration with about 8 X 8 feet stall, it will be about West Africa ICT
University College across countries and continents its a Key to achieving the Atiapa Secretary:-West Africa similar societies in ICT desk, 3 chairs, and Youth Society, Our Objective,
(GTUC-TESA) & WSIS, UNGIS goals and objective toward development of ICT Youth Society's (Planning development. projector, banner. Projects and How the individual,
EKOICT-Ghana ICT in the world. Committee). Mr. Francis Ekow Organisation, governments, and
Quansah West Africa ICT WSIS can support WAIYS in
Youth Society's Constitutional development of ICT in West Africa.
Committee head. Ghana
Telecom University college,
PMB 100, Accra-North, Ghana

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27 GHA IO United Network Youth Contribution in Achieving the Millennium The speaker is Youth n/a n/a Youth and Millennium Development
of International Development Goal through ICT. Throughout history, Development practitioner and Goals MDGs. The workshop will
Youth young people have played an active role in shaping major ICT Trainer. Simon Kodjo focus on how young people can
Development and social and political advancements. Today’s growing Semaho ICT Trainer United contribute to the Millennium
Peace globalization and cross-border movements create an Network of International Youth Development Goals MDGs. The
environment which is increasingly diverse in terms of for Development and Peace challenges facing young people in
culture and religion. Young people’s contribution to their effort for contributing for the
understanding the impact of this diversity on everyday life Millennium Development Goals
as well as politics is now more crucial than ever. Moreover, MDGs.
as they constitute the largest segment of population in
many regions, the role of youth in shaping their country’s
response to cultural and religious diversity is vital. In this
regards young people can not be left out in achieving the
Millennium Development Goals,fight Climate
Change,information Technology and capacity
building.Deliberating teaching Information Technology ICT
as social responsible online tool in achieving the
Millennium Development Goals. ICT cannot be left out in
Africa's Development.ICT plays a major role in achieving
the MDGs.

28 GUI CS ASSOCIATION la promotion de la défense des droits humains de la MME MARIAM MANSA • Accès aux services n/a renforcer les opportunités des
FEMMES ET femme et de la jeune fille. CAMARA PRESIDENTE DE d'information en matière de jeunes filles leur fournissant les
ACTIONS POUR LE L'ORGANISATION santé sexuelle et reproductive compétences nécessaires pour tirer
DEVELOPPEMENT
ASSOCIATION FEMMES ET dans les communautés rurales pleinement parti de la vie
ACTIONS POUR LE démunies; économique et publique et prônant
DEVELOPPEMENT des comportements sans danger.

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29 IND CS Childcare PSYCHO-ANALYSIS: 31 n/a n/a n/a n/a


consortium World Submit on the Information society and its Plan of Action
via arousing unanimous fellow feelings around the World:

[This statement is submitted before 15 Dec 2010 against the


invitation received from Mr. Sha Zukang, UN Under-Secretary
General for Economic and Social Affairs to convey the outcome
at UN General Assembly to be held in 2011]

The source code in this statement of Analysis is how to


implement Information and communications technology [ITCs]
on reviewing the program and polices unanimously in Natural
way at UN and implement around the world without planting
ITCs via marketing strategies of profit makings to shun Global
recession.

INTERNET:

The electronic and optical networking technologies are linked as


internet where the 25% of the world human population is use it.
The traditional communications such as telephone, music, film,
and television took the advantage of internet to make huge
money by pocketing the rest of the 75% human population
around the world. The Internet is extremely heterogeneous and
lacks uniformity and in Nature that the homogeneous is uniform
in composition or character. Therefore, the internet and service
providers around the world are to be brought under one uniform
code by monitoring the self-similarity on magnifying ratio on
data transfer rates and materials of e-wastes by UN Internet
Governance Forum (IGF) via ITCs program and policies to

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bring Natural homogeneous effect on social composition or


human character to improve equity, efficiency and effectiveness
on earth. The measure of magnifying ratio by (IGF) must begin
from Land locked least developed countries like stone thrown on
a pond where the magnifying wave lengths are spread equally all
around unanimously till it reaches the destination of potency.
These Natural Equitable Principles on pricing must be followed
by UN trade & development (UNCTAD) to achieve potency
around the world. Many Heads of the states may react against
such program and policies in ITCS & UNCTAD to protect minority
in which (IGF) & UN must undertake such minorities to protect
for successful implementation of ITCs program and policies on
Internet & UNCTAD around the world to expedite sustainability,
globalization and transformation.

Action Line С1:- The role of public governance authorities and


all stakeholders in the promotion of ICTs for development –

The human population around the world must experience the


meaning of Information. Information is born out of
Gender/Genetic Expression and Gender/Genetic response by
processing via to & foe interactions to establish communication
for transformation and diversification without remainder.
Without remainder communication is complete and without
information there is no communication. He who communicates
without information is in insane or junk as human experience
plenty on internet. Gender/genetic inequities generate ill
communication without information via fictions or fraudulent act
with one extension of corruption or depression.

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Such communication is being executed in big volume for big


money in day to day life via electronic medium which divide
bipolar world into unipolar world to relay on collation partners
for its survival and power.
Therefore, that the digital divide productions and repeating of
sex and violence via printed or electronic or traditional
communications need to be declared as crime via ITCs
international program and policy. The Natural communications
such as gender/genetic expression and response have two
extensions to live and share power for transformation and
diversification without remainder.

The remainders in ICTs are found in e-waste, e-scrap, or Waste


Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) which causes serious
health and pollution problems in developing countries. It needs
to be eliminated by clean technologies by encouraging the
electronic waste recycling units/processors around the world.
Issuing patent and copyright on unclean technologies must be
stopped and should not be allowed under the cheap provisions
of bribe or employment guarantees. Permanent employment
schemes are depend upon the ITCs program, policy and clean
technologies. The fraudulent ITC program and policies damage
human resources. Adopting an International policy in this regards
is very essential for Global social development and
transformation to achieve sustainability. NGO, Childcare
consortium is rightly mentioned in previous statement of analysis
on Global social development that the world is submerged in
emotions [EQ] due to prevailing volume of gender inequities
which pushes [IQ} moral world at the backyard.

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The failure of moral value in public governance authorities and


stakeholders are liable to comment/commit false and continue
life with same old unclean ICTs with E-wastes.

A UN Report warned that the earth’s 6.8 billion humans are


effectively living 50% beyond the planets’ bio-capacity in 2007
and WWF adding that by 2030 human will effectively need the
capacity of two Earths. Enough is enough that the ITCs must
work to protect bio-capacity to improve Natural efficiency on
land, water, air for fertility and potency in life forms to avoid
mass extinction on earth rather than finding exploitation
methodologies to acquire Natural deposits for profits.

Therefore, that the National or Global e-strategies are to be


endorsed at United Nations for publication and implementation.
The E-strategies prepared by Public/Private Partnership (PPP) or
Multi-Sector Partnership (MSP) needs to get endorsed with
respective government under the guideline of Internet
Governance Forum (IGF). The Import and export policy of the
respective Government on Software need to be consulted with
Internet Governance Forum (IGF) under the guideline of United
Nations for implementation.

Now, the options are left with International policy makers on


ITCs and those who review the comments to promote
unanimous Natural way of communication where continuity is
hidden or human made technological way of communication
where connectivity is planted to achieve sustainability,
Globalization and social transformation.

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Action Line C7:- E-Government


The ITCs program and policies must be closely related to natural
order with clean technologies. Such ITCs program, policies and
tools will improve equity, efficiencies, and effectiveness of the
population on e-governance for social sustainability,
transformation and globalization. Look around the hall at UN HQ
on 14 December 2010 and monitor the following three factors: 1]
the equity ratio of Male, female and trans-gender assembled to
consult or review comments on ITCs 2] Total volume of
participant Nation's Natural resources, 3] The available technical
and communication facilities ratio of the participant Nation for
reorientation on ITCs program and policies for successful
implementation at General Assembly in 2011.

In a Nation that the Gender equity, available Natural resources,


prevailing technical and communication facilities are to be
balanced to develop E-governance. The equity ratio, efficiencies
and effectiveness are important to develop E-governance in
respective languages as applicable. Any differences arise among
these three factors in a Nation that the E-governance
development index will vary among the Nations. The world is
continuing with the help of Natural communication like
breathing in and breathing out oxygen with two extensions by
transforming and diversifying the carbon dioxide without
remainders. The same world is trying to connect with one
another by using human made Technology which leaves behind
e-waste. The problem is in human decoding of unclean
Technologies which relay on unclean economics encoded by
humans. Because, the global social coding is remain unclean
with vast gender inequity.

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Therefore, the ITCs are planted in Europe, Asia and America


where the unclean economics are invested for huge profits and
accountability of unaccounted values. It needs to be stopped by
the ITCs program and policy makers during implementation at
General Assembly in 2011 to develop E-governance unanimously.
E-Government should not be planted here and there via
marketing strategies of profit, but continued on mutual benefits
via ITCs program and policies where UN suppose to develop
mutual-ism around the world without profitable notions. ITCs
should be unanimously spread around the world via its program
and polices by carefully viewing the comments at UN General
Assembly to develop E-government, in order to enhance
transparency, accountability and efficiency at all levels of
government. Such initiatives will strengthen relations with global
citizens.
[Refer the Natural way of technique to arouse unanimous
fellow feelings among the Nations hidden in 'Simple economic
Theory' and in the implementation process given in Action Line
C11 for reference]

Action Line C11 - International and regional cooperation:

The International and regional level ITCs are planted here and
there in Europe, Asia and America with flexible gender equity
ratio and unclean Economic values. The International and
regional level ITCs cooperation is based on unanimously agreed
ITC program and policies towards Transfer of Technology and
channelizing the clean economic values to access information by
ordinary citizens around the world.

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The methodology, technique on arousal of unanimous state


among Nations are mentioned in "SIMPLE ECONOMIC THEORY'
sent by the NGO childcare consortium to UN NGLS team and UN
NGO Section for adaptation. In ITCs program and policy the same
can be adapt to transfer clean technology and invest clean
economic values from Developed to Developing and to under
developing, land locked least developing countries in a clockwise
cycle until humans achieve sustainability. The 'SIMPLE
ECONOMIC THEORY' allows transfer of Technology and
investments step- by-step from developed to developing and to
under developing and to land locked least developed countries in
orderly form which fills the gap on left over sustainability and
generate unanimous fellow feeling in a region, Nation which
reflect in cooperation at International level for globalization. The
'SIMPLE ECONOMIC THEORY 'is applicable to Governments,
Public/Private Partnership (PPP) or Multi-Sector Partnership
(MSP) to maintain Global discipline on ITCs to develop
cooperation.
Before transferring Technology and investment from developed
to developing and under developing and so on that the hosting
nation must carefully analyze the gender equity ratio, efficiency
and effectiveness of the nations to determine its nature of
technological transfer, fund allocation with terms & conditions
on receiving country by emphasizing the nature of Technological
transfer and investment to be made with next lower level
countries within specific duration. Such terms and conditions
keep harmonic pressure like sea breeze from developed to
developing and from developing to under developing and to land
locked least developed country until their sustainability is being
achieved for simultaneous

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cooperation among the Nations, region and at International level
for Peace and prosperity.
It is unwise and unfair that the developed countries, World Bank
group, IMF, Public/Private Partnership (PPP) and Multi-Sector
Partnership (MSP) directly putting their hand into under
developing and land locked leased developing countries without
the concern of Developing countries with funny ITC projects.
Such action is looking like that the Head of Nations directly
putting his/her hands into the pocket of ordinary citizen without
the concern of revenue authorities under the funny project of
poverty eradication. This kind of looting and planting of ITC
network around the world need be stopped by (IGF) via ITCs
program and policies to develop cooperation among the Nations.
Global or National problems can be resolved at the floor of
United Nations or friendship gained via International or regional
level. Looting and pocketing the ordinary citizens via digital
divide need to be stopped around the world via ITCs program
and polices to develop cooperation among the nature of each
and as a whole on our Planet to achieve sustainability,
globalization and transformation into next.

These comments are not conflicting advice, but Natural way of


(IGF) implementing ITCs program and policies to gain
sustainability, unanimous state and reduce Global recession for
globalization. NGO, Childcare Consortium is here by thank Mr.
Sha Zukang, UN Under-Secretary General for Economic and
Social Affairs who gave this opportunity to submit statement in
promotion of Information and communications technology [ITCs]
to prepare note and convey at UN General Assembly to be held,
2011. Good luck!
30 IND GO DEPARTMENT OF We will like to send India Paper indicating the status of n/a n/a n/a n/a
INFORMATION Action Lines finalised by WSIS.
TECHNOLOGY

31 IND BE HELP CENTRE we would like to WSIS Programmes n/a n/a n/a n/a

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32 IND CS Video Volunteers We suggest there be the following theme: Community media to We would like to see n/a A stall with See above (answer to the first
empower the poor to be creators, not just receivers, of ICT community media information about question)
content. This theme can then be not just discussed, but actually practitioners from slums and Video Volunteers and
implemented and demonstrated at the conference through an
villages in the global south community media
innovative format. Video Volunteers proposes using community
speaking at WSIS. Many of more generally - a
media to bring a diverse range of voices from the global south
into the WSIS Forum 2011. Video Volunteers gives communities these activists do not have celebration of diverse
in rural India by enabling them to make their own documentaries phones or email addresses but community voices
and news. We have built the largest media network anywhere in have a huge amount of
the world of poor people making and screening films on their knowledge and expertise on
issues -- in every state in India we have villagers working full time the realities of ICT and
making films that are then shown on widescreen projectors to development. Please contact
100s of people a night, online and (starting shortly) on Indian TV. Video Volunteers
These community videos have created real impact -- they've
(naomi@videovolunteers.org)
reduced corruption, helped get teachers to come on time, gotten
people more involved in elections, and created amazing leaders
in order to connect with these
out of people who use to be farm laborers or Muslim housewives people. Also, it would be
but who now are their villages' local journalists. For Video great to hear speakers from
Volunteers, community media is about equipping communities at InsightShare, England; Chiapas
the base of the pyramid with creative and critical thinking skills as Media Project, Mexico; BAVC,
well as technological know-how so that they can right the wrongs US and Knight News Challenge
they witness by becoming players in the global media revolution. winners from around the
WSIS is the world’s leading summit on the use of ICTs in
world.
development.

We propose that each thematic workshop, interactive facilitation


meeting and debate opens with community voices on the issue
being discussed. In this way, each action line will be bolstered by
local perspectives on the matter. By bringing voices of the
marginalized into the WSIS process through video, web,
teleconference and live presence, a platform will be created on
which Dalits from throughout India, youth from the favelas of
Sao Paolo and women from rural Nigeria will converse with UN
diplomats, government officials and policy makers from across
the globe. Video Volunteers truly believes that by employing
this participatory and democratic approach, WSIS can not only
converse about ICT and development, but actively engage with it.
Delegates will be exposed, first hand, to the exciting reality and
future possibilities of our world, when marginalized communities
are equipped with technological innovations. If you would like to
discuss this or have your own community media projects to bring
to WSIS, please email us at info@videovolunteers.org.

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33 INT IO ORBICOM This is to inform you that following Orbicom's participation n/a n/a n/a Measuring the ICT sector during the
in the Geneva and Tunis WSIS summit(s), it is now WSIS Forum 2011 (co-organized
important to showcase progress that has been made in the with UNCTAD)
area of statistical indicators closely linked to policy needs
of developing countries, following WSIS recommendations.
Of specific interest have been national measurements of
the ICT sector, indicators for which had been largely non-
existent among countries of the South, and which were
included in the recommended core indicators by the
International Partnership on Measuring ICTs for
Development. A unique project has now produced for the
first time indicators on the GDP, employment and other
aspects of the ICT sector as per the internationally agreed-
upon definition in five countries through the close
collaboration between teams of researchers and the
statistical authorities in India, Malaysia, Egypt, Cameroon
and Brazil. The project will be completed by the tome of
the meeting and will serve as an example for others to
follow, both in the production of such key indicators and
their use in policy analysis.

34 INT CS WECaN ICT as support of development of the entrepreneurship in Expertise: Entrepreneurship n/a n/a n/a
youth environment in Africa and ICT in youth development
Contact Full Name: Jules Yao
YAO Designation: Founder &
President of WECaN
Organisation: WECaN
(Worldwide Entrepreneurship
Campaigners' Network)

35 IRA BE Arianous ICTD Co. I was participate in wsis from 2003 and I am interested in n/a n/a n/a n/a
to Follow-up it.

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36 IRA GO Information 1- International participation for Child Online Protectection Speaker: Mr. Eesa Zarepour; n/a Information n/a
Technology and 2- The International framework for global cooperation Chaiman of "Information Technology and
Digital Media against cyber crimes and threats 3- Measuring ICT for Technology and Digital Media Digital Media
Center Developemnt especially in the field of knowledge gap and Developement Center" Developement Center
content production; (ITDMDC). (ITDMDC) wants to
Organization:ITDMDC is the represent the
specific governmental activities of Ministry
custodian for development of of Culture of Iran in
Digital Media in general and the field of Digital
digital media content in Media and on the
particular in Iran. It has been basis of WSIS action
set up in the “I. R. Iran Ministry lines These activies
of Culture and Islamic include the experience
Guidance” Subject: The of "cultural digital
experience of "cultural digital complexes" and
complexes" in Iran as multi- "International Digital
purpose community public Media Fair and
access points on the basis of Festevial", etc.
C3, C4 and C8

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37 IRA GO mashhad It is essential to develop ability to find accurate and correct I myself ready to speak in all n/a n/a 1- Workshop on how to use open
university of information is a main skill everybody should learn. it is now mentioned topics. I have years source software to create
medical sciences facilitated according to 21th century technologies. So focus experience on these topics in knowledge-bases, these software
on below seems critical: -Accessibility of information practice, do research and help developers in each society to
resources for all/ -enrichment of resources in all languages lectures. create online resources with low
in all branches -training stakeholders in every society cost and customize to reach
including teachers, physicians an etc to educate others. - awareness goals with low costs and
Finding innovative methods to reduce risk of low budgets. These systems are
communication and awareness -reduce knowledge gap CMS or LCMS 2-Health literacy
among societies -find new solutions fro deprived societies workshop: it is tried in this
without knowledge and access to resources -discuss how workshop to educate individuals to
to train people to work together, team working and critical keep own and family members
thinking are two skills that in current time, that everybody healthy. This is too essential in
should learn and it will help to promote the societies by resource limited societies that
own attempts. social support for health services is
limited. This training is based on a
publishing model for individualized
health promotion. 3-Thinking, is a
capabilities few people know about.
it is a workshop to educate how to
think and ho to make decision and
how to problem solving, this
workshop have been conducted
before and have been welcomed.

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38 IRQ GO KRG Department Capacity Building, Stakeholder Roles. Botan Mahmoud Osman is the n/a n/a n/a
of IT Head of the Kurdistan Regional
Government (KRG) Department of
Information Technology, he was
appointed to establish the
department and hold the position
in early 2007. Mr. Osman holds
an MBA and a BSC in Software
Engineering from Manchester
University and has over 12 years
of experience in IT and
Management. He has occupied a
number of senior management
positions in Information
Technology and Financial
companies in the United
Kingdom, primarily focusing on
operations across Europe and the
Middle East. Since his
appointment in 2007 he has
founded and developed the KRG
Department of IT from the ground
up, which has lead on a number
of very important initiatives;
including the establishment of a
state of the art Regional IT
Academy, the KRG Biometric
Electronic ID Card System and the
development of the KRG IT
Strategy 2011-2016
. The past three years has seen
significant progress in the field of
Information Technology within
the Kurdistan Region, and the KRG
Department of IT has been
instrumental in leading this
progress.

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39 IRQ MI Multiple 1. e-government and e-governance challenges 2. Building Dalawr Chalabi 10 years n/a n/a n/a
Enterprises capacity tools in development countries 3. Mobile experiences in ICT
applications 4. ERP role in developing business 5. Setup development in challenging
firm infrastructure in development countries 6. Global environment. Providing
sharing knowledge consultancy and advisory
services for top enterprises
within the region, and played
important role in setup new
ICT infrastructure for those
enterprises. Hold BSc. and
MSc. degrees in computer
engineering, and currently
work in several multi-national
enterprises within the
Kurdistan Region of Iraq.

40 ITA CS Aureo Anello Synergy of Communication with Action against Poverty, n/a n/a n/a n/a
Associazione with particular emphasis on home schooling literacy
campaigns among Romanian Roma in Europe, and on Haiti
and in Brazil, using the web, etc.

41 ITA CS Aureo Anello I attended the St Petersburg gathering. I work with Roma n/a n/a n/a n/a
Associazione from Romania in Florence with alphabetization, work,
access to knowledge, language preservation, our website:
http://www.ringofgold.eu

42 IVC CS Ecole Normale How to help developing countries in integrate ICT in Désiré BOLY Doctorate in At what level are ICT integrated in n/a For a developing country as Côte
Supérieure Abidjan education field. Sciences of Information and education in Europe countries? d'Ivoire, how integrate ICT in
Communication Teacher/Trainer education?
in Technopedagogy

43 JAM GO National Irrigation I think the use of e-agriculture for development if not n/a n/a n/a n/a
Commission already a main topic should be so included.

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44 MAU CS NTIC ET My organization suggests an investigation to define the Mrs Marie-hélène Mottin-Sylla n/a About mauritanian n/a
CITOYENNETE numerical limits of the gender digital divid at the time of (sénégal) women and internet
the smsi 2011 into the participants and their knowledge ten years after
like sample. Mon organisation suggère une enquete pour
définir les limites de la fracture numériques de Genre, lors
du smsi 2011 sur les participants et leurs connaissances,
comme échantillon.

45 MEX GO Ministry of This Coordination of the Information and Knowledgement Lic. María Eloisa Talavera n/a n/a n/a
Communications suggest the following themes: Broadband access.- Recognizing Hernández Coordinadora de la
and Transport the relevant role of the broadband to Internet access the Sociedad de la Información y el
countries require to develop public policies to promote the
Conocimiento Av. Xola y
creation, develop and increase the infrastructure present and
Universidad, Expertise of the
future to bring the access for all of your citizens. The role of the
creation of capacity building and training.- The public policies speaker: Connectivity
must take into account the inequalities in access to education (Broadband) and Digital
and quality training on the vulnerable groups and people living in Inclusion
remote areas. To Whom the world are constructing the TICs?
Who are benefits for these and if they can use and access to it?
How does ICTs generate the digital inclusion of the population?
The provision/promotion of connectivity.- Share the strategies
for the countries for increase the connectivity and the
international programmes and developmental financing
mechanisms needed to provide funding. Best practices
reducing digital divide.- For the develop of the information and
communication society, it is essential a global vision to reduce
the digital divide, taking in account not just the technological
transference, financial and technical supports, even though the
development and accessibility of contents, among others. The
digital divide is a complex problem that requires a deep
understanding, based on first hand experiences in order to define
policies and programs so it would be useful for the members
states the vision of different countries and regions about the
public policies they implemented to reduce it.

46 MLI CS Action Aides aux women and technologie Tenin TOURE women and tecnologie of EXIBITION women and technologie
Familles informatique
Demunies

47 NEP MI Association of Community Radio Broadcasting and Social Transformation. Min Bahadur Shahi, Community Radio and Publications on Community Radio Broadcasting and
Community radio Chairperson for Association of sustainability management community radio social transformation....
Broadcasters Community Radio broadcasting and
(ACORAB) Nepal Broadcasters (ACORAB), relavancies...

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48 NET IO International The International Federation of Library Associations and n/a n/a n/a Thematic Workshop for the WSIS
Federation of Institutions (IFLA) and Electronic Information for Libraries Forum: Open access policies and
Library (eIFL) would like to propose a thematic workshop on the strategies for policy makers There are
significant economic, social and
Associations and subject of Open Access. The workshop could look at the
educational benefits to making
Institutions (IFLA) current acheivements of the key players in the field
research outputs available without
(libraries, universities and research institutions) and financial, legal and technical barriers to
address how they can work together to improve open access. This workshop will highlight
access in the future. Other stakeholders, such as funders open access policies and strategies
and policy makers could also be bought into the disucssion. targeted to different stakeholders: •
It could be useful for audience members to hear about Policy makers and research managers:
successful examples of open access in the field, and to get open access helps to publicise
involved in a discussion about whether they are replicable institute’s research strengths, providing
maximum return on research
across countries. The session could also discuss how
investment and new tools to manage
open access could be included in national and regional research impact; • Researchers: open
research and educational policies, in order to formally access benefits researchers in the
embed open access into education and research following ways: increased visibility,
institutions. usage and impact for their work; •
Publishers: open access brings
increased readership and, with that,
increased citations, and maximum
visibility and impact for a journal's
contents; it helps to provide the best
possible dissemination service for
research; • Libraries: open access has
changed the profile of academic and
research libraries – they partner with
scientists and research managers to set
up open

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repositories, to curate research data
and to develop open access policies,
with scholarly publishers they publish
open access journals and books, and
with educators – produce open
educational resources, ensuring the
quality of digital content, its reuse and
sharing. Open access seeks to remove
price and permission barriers that
prevent knowledge from being shared.
Open access literature is digital, online,
free of charge, and free of most
copyright and licensing restrictions.
Open access is compatible with
copyright, peer review, revenue (and
profit), print, preservation, prestige,
career-advancement, indexing, and
other features and supportive services
associated with conventional scholarly
literature. Open access benefits
researchers, institutions, nations and
society as a whole. The workshop will
discuss: • Complementary strategies
to achieve open access to scholarly
literature: open access journals and
open access repositories. • Open
access to research data. • Open access
costs and benefits for research funders,
universities and

research organizations. • Open access


policies from the perspective of
research funders, national governments
and intergovernmental organizations.
Speakers can be selected from the
library, university and research, and
policy sectors. A good geographical
spread will be ensured. The speakers
will present: • An IFLA White Paper on
Open Access. • Open access policies in
the European Union and OpenAIRE
project. • Open access policies in
China, India, South Africa and Ukraine:
unpacking costs and benefits. • Open
Access among the United Nations
Group on the Information Society
(UNGIS) Member States: an overview of
recent developments and initiatives •
The Global Open Access Portal.

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49 NIR BE Childolescent and My views on the thematic aspect of WSIS forum is that the n/a n/a n/a n/a
Family Survival participants should be able to exchange information for the
Organisation betterment of the world, especially attaining MDGs by
2015 and beyond

50 NIR GO Federal Ministry Access to telecommunication facilities in the rural Africa Dr.(mrs) o. v. Mejabi, Senior n/a n/a n/a
of Information & most especially west Africa. Research fellow, dept of
Communications Information & communication
hq, Abuja Nigeria Science University of Ilorin
Kwara State, Nigeria

51 NIR CS HUMAN RIGHT HIV/AIDS as a treat to life. How to govern without bad n/a n/a n/a n/a
INFORMATION images. Solution to Climate problems in Africa. Human
NETWORK rights abuse, how do we cub/reduce it.
(HURINET)

52 NIR CS Kanuri Communication. It will be an advantage to the WISIS 1. Dungus Mohammed Expert I will translate in to Hausa n/a n/a
Development Forum to reach greater audience by translating some of its civil society issues. . 2. Mrs. language (a local language in
Association eminating documents coming from the Forum that are Laila Deribe Abubakar Expert Africa) some of the documents
always or in most of the times are written in the six Gender issues. 3. Wakil A. from the ITU-WISIS made for
international langugaes used by the United Nations. In K. Tijjani Expert Civil the benefit of civil societies that
this context if the documents are translated into two major Society,Education and mostly do not understand any
African languages namely;Hausa and Suwahili languages Translation ( ENGLISH-HAUSA). ofthe six international
this will make communication from the forum reaches and languages used by the United
understood by a 100 million more people in Africa. Nations especially from the sub-
saharan African countries were
Hausa language is spoken by
over 40 million people. So that
many will understand about the
WISIS Forum better.

53 NIR BE PGI Engineering 1) Information Technology a vital key of rapid n/a n/a n/a n/a
Limited development in Africa. Information Technology a
Panacea to world's Peace recovery

54 NIR GO Nigerian THE NEED FOR ICT FREE LEARNING INSTITUTIONS/ Dr. Eugene I. Juwah Executive n/a n/a n/a
Communications CENTRES AT ALL LEVELS ACROSS THE GLOBE Vice Chairman/ CEO Nigerian
Commission Communications Commision
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55 NIR CS Save Visions INFORMATION - SIGHT FOR THE BLIND n/a n/a n/a n/a
Africa
56 NIR MI SNIIT The global food crisis has slipped out of the headlines over n/a n/a n/a n/a
the past couple of years as the developed world has
focused on problems closer to home. But the issues that
saw the prices of agricultural commodities spike higher two
years ago, sparking food riots in many countries around the
world, rising food prices have made basic staples like rice
and corn unaffordable for many people, pushing the poor
to the barricades because they can no longer get enough to
eat. And that why I react against (FOOD CRISIS) in order to
find solution to it as Bill Gates, donated $120m (£73m)
behind a drive to make poor farmers more productive. This
follows a $20bn commitment by the G8 this summer to
agricultural development, a move that marks an important
shift from aid to investment.

57 NIR MI student i believe that the topic of TECHNOLOGICAL OWNERSHIP n/a n/a n/a n/a
organization and EVEN DISTRIBUTION OF INFORMATION. This topic is of
more benefits to the western world as it will help them in
understanding better the cultures of the third world
nations. it will help in the cultural integration of both
worlds. it will also allow for participation of the third world
countries in global decisions.

58 NZE GO National Library The WSIS Forum 2011 would be an excellent opportunity n/a n/a n/a n/a
of New Zealand for the main actors in the WSIS process to celebrate the
continuing validity of the Geneva 2003 'Principles' and
critically review the Geneva Plan of Action, the Tunis
outcome documents and the progress made since Tunis
including by the IGF. They could focus on the reduction of
barriers to access to ICTs, the seamless interconnection of
information systems supporting educational social cultural
and economic development, and ways in which the
'Information Society' can empower local national and
regional communities to respond to the current global
economic recession). They could plan for another WSIS (in
2015?) not as an endpoint but as a milestone reached.

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59 PAK IO Muhammad Many routing protocol deployments, if they use n/a the world you need an official n/a Educators can earn graduate school
Akram & Sons authentication at all, are using older (possibly deprecated) Kickoff session, strategy session, credit and professional
Trading & cryptographic algorithms and missing some modern planning session…whatever you development credit while seeing the
want to call it. With a planned and
Investment security mechanisms, like replay protection, algorithm world. The trips are designed for
productive Kickoff session, the
agility, or key rollover. In addition, many use the same key teachers and include activities such
project gets off on the right foot
permanently. This needs to be fixed. Additionally, key and you, as the project manager, as school visits and homestays that
management for routing protocols needs to be added to will have done your best to start give participants authentic exposure
easily address the terminated-employee problem of everyone off with the same to local culture. The trips are deeply
compromised shared secrets. Such key management needs expectations. Of course, there are discounted so as to be affordable to
to work over multicast media, and needs to work directly no guarantees on that, but at least teachers. GEEO also helps teachers
over the link layer in some cases (since routing depends you are likely to close some major find funding to subsidize the cost of
upon it). expectation gaps and possibly the trips
identify some risks that you hadn’t
counted on. The PM methodology
that I’ve been using while leading
customer implementations is sort
of a hybrid, but it’s been well
received by the customers. I’ll
discuss the phases of the
methodology in subsequent posts,
but for now I’ll explore in greater
detail how I believe a typical Kickoff
session should

60 PAK CS PLANWEL It woold be an excellent oppurtunity to interact with n/a n/a n/a n/a
participants from all over the world and share our
expereinces as welll as learn from thiers

61 POL GO Ministry of The role and the place of individuals in the global Ms. Magdalena Gaj, n/a n/a n/a
Infrastructure telecommunication network Undersecretary of State in the
Ministry of Infrastructure.
Ministry of Infrastructure

62 SCG MI University of Interested in the knowledge access aspects, especially in n/a n/a n/a n/a
Belgrade, AMRES developing and undeveloped countries. Being involved in
development of various ICT based services in Serbia, the e-
Learning system at the Academic Network of Serbia for
example, concerned not about infrastructural issues, but
about a significant lack of their efficient use on the national
level. So examination of available knowledge, its use,
sharing and stimulating developing world to actively
participate in its creation and share would be a thematic
aspect for WSIS Forum 2011.

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63 SEN CS Horizon Participate at the WSIS FORUM n/a n/a n/a n/a
d'Echange et de
Lutte contre la
Pauvreté (H.E.L.P)

64 SRL CS Sarvodaya-Fusion Social Impact of the ICT and Mobile for development n/a Limitation of the existing social n/a n/a
interventions at bottom of the pyramid communities. impact assessment models for
ICT4D and Mobile 4 D
interventions.

65 SRL MI SHADOW 1. Civil Society participation in decision making process in n/a n/a n/a n/a
development interventions. 2. Social Welfare schemes in
Developing and underdeveloped countries. 3. Delivery
and finetuning development aid effectiveness in line with
western donor agencies

66 SEN CS Isoc Sénégal La distribution régionale géographique au niveau de: -UIT n/a n/a n/a n/a
(secrétariat général, le BDT et le BR) -IGF -ICANN

67 SEN CS Isoc Sénégal L'UIT dit "En connectant le monde et en permettant à n/a n/a n/a n/a
chacun de jouir du droit de communiquer, nous nous
employons à rendre le monde meilleur et plus sûr." Pour
un monde plus sûr je dirai qu'il faudra que l'UIT est comme
l'un des thèmes "e-paix" La paix aura un nouveau prisme.
Dans l'ère de l'information -Définir les causes des conflits d
-Définir les conséquences des conflits -La prévention et
la résolution des conflits -Etablissement de la paix par l'e-
paix en utilisant les éléments de la cible 8 du SMSI

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68 SUD CS gedaref digital city Title : Telecentres and Telecentre academies Telecentres n/a telecentre the tool for telecentres and e- telecentre the tool for community
http://mogtamaa.ning.com/video/shoroog2mpeg4-1 community development services development through ICT (e-
Telecentre is a public place where people can access computers, through ICT (e-agriculture, e- agriculture, e-health, e-education
the Internet, and other digital technologies that enable them to
health, e-education and e- and e-inclusion)
gather information, create, learn, and communicate with others
inclusion)
while they develop essential digital skills. Telecentres empower
people who want to use technology to promote community
development and facilitate their lives. Telecentre.org
http://www.telecentre.org/profile/AHMED Telecentres
movement is a newly developed global initiative. Telecentre.org
is a worldwide network of people and organizations committed
to increasing the social and economic impact of tens of
thousands of grassroots Telecentres by making Telecentres
stronger and better at what they do. .. Telecentre.org has
worked with hundreds of organizations in more than 70
countries. Telecentres movement is a newly developed global
initiative. The global Telecentre networks, consist of more than
5000 members, they speak four different languages. .
Telecentre.org consist of 78 groups in partnership for community
development, 2713 members speaking English, 1,477 members
speaking Spanish, 1053 members speaking Arabic and 323
members speaking French, in addition to hundreds of thousands
in all continent speaking local and national languages. They are
sharing (1,597) Blog Posts and more than 6000 pictures and
hundreds of events. They share knowledge, experience and best
practices for community development online in an innovative
ways through public private partnership (PPP).

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One of the Telecentres examples is Gedaref Digital City
Organization (GDCO) in Sudan. It is the founder of the first
Telecentre academy in Africa and the thirteen in the world Sudan
National Telecentre Academy (SuNTA). Global Telecentre
academy (GTA) Telecentre.org Academy offers skills-
development programmes to support grassroots-level actors
involved in creating new and inclusive economies in developing
countries. It promotes the use of knowledge and information as
means to empower millions of marginalized and poor
communities. This Telecentre academy,, has its role in e-
education, training and capacity building and it has its unique
system where more than a million Telecentre mangers and
operators are going to be trained (training of trainee TOT) by
2012.. In addition, there is a call for training one million women
in 25,000 Telecentre all over the world in the year 2011. In
addition, it gives it certificates accredited by IGNOU and other
national universities. Fourteen international Telecentres
academies operate in fourteen countries and provide
professional development training to Telecentre managers in
order to improve their skills and capacity building. They provide
the training, tools and learning opportunities that Telecentres
need to grow stronger, more sustainable and more numerous.
Working with our partners, we have reached nearly 100,000
Telecentres around the globe and close to 40,000,000 Telecentre
users across the globe, through these Telecentres we have
empowered millions of people in the communities where they
live. It promotes the use of knowledge and information as means
to empower millions of marginalized and poor communities.

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MISSION 1- Establish a global programme to support the


learning needs of over 1 million Telecentre operators, thousands
of key policy makers, investors, and leaders of existing and
emerging networks who seek to succeed in Telecentre work 2-
Initiate appropriate skills-development programmes to promote
livelihood and knowledge-based practices among grassroots
communities 3- Develop appropriate learning systems and
curriculum, based on the learning needs of numerous grassroots-
level knowledge workers and stakeholders to sustain Telecentre
operations as mini- and micro social enterprises 4- Establish
linkages with academic institutions to develop a linear career
path for grassroots-level knowledge workers, and with
Telecentre networks for peer-learning support, mentorship, and
placement services 5- Demonstrate that the learning
programmes initiated by the Academy fulfils the human resource
development mandate of various governments around the
world, in line with their national priorities Stakeholders and
actors of the Telecentre Academy Ecosystem 1- Learners The first
and foremost stakeholders are the learners for whom the
Academy has been constituted. The learners are not only
beneficiaries of the Academy programme, but the main
stakeholders. They advise the Academy by providing feedback on
the continuous professional development needs of grassroots-
level knowledge workers. Who are the Learners ? Learners are
over 1 million grassroots-level knowledge workers who create
and promote inclusive economies around the world. They are
over 10,000 policy-makers who need to aware of the benefits
from the Telecentre movement, especially from the one million
grassroots-level knowledge workers. The academy will train
1,000,000 knowledge workers by 2015.

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VISION The Telecentre.org Academy offers skills-development


programmes to support grassroots-level actors involved in
creating new and inclusive economies in developing countries.
Over 1000 individuals who work passionately for the grassroots-
Telecentre movement as network leaders, promoters and
advocates in their own right and capacity, especially from the
non-governmental (NGO) sector. Over 1 billion community
members who have the potential to benefit when these
Telecentres embrace community skills-development as their core
work 2- The Tutors and Mentors Over 10,000 alumni of
telecentre.org Academy who offer counseling, mentorship and
learning support to over 1 million grassroots-level knowledge
workers who audit telecentre.org Academy courses 3-
Curriculum providers + National Universities Training and
capacity building institutions, National Universities, Telecentre
networks, private and public service providers that can and do
supply curriculum to telecentre.org Academy 4- National
telecentre.org Academies (Academy consortium): The network of
Telecentre actors that have come together as partners to
telecentre.org Academy in each of the countries where skills
development of Telecentre knowledge workers are seen as an
important activity. These national academies are present in 14
countries one of them is Sudan. 5- Consortium of Universities
The telecentre.org Academy has agreed to collaborate with
universities around the world to assess and certify learners with
credits that is transferable, applicable for continuing further
education, for finding employment. 6- The Global Secretariat It is
small team facilitating the work of the Academy.It coordinates
curriculum development, accreditation, and

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maintenance of curriculum standards and global governance of


the Academy. A Governing Body that safeguards the interests of
the global nature of the Academy supports the Global Secretariat
staff. The Global Secretariat reports to IGNOU leadership for all
administrative matters and to the Governing Body for all
technical work 7- Governing Body of telecentre.org Academy It is
a global team of experts representing the national telecentre.org
academies, consortium of universities, curriculum specialists and
the social investors. They support the global secretariat in its
efforts to serve the academy. The Governing Body oversees and
approves the curriculum, checks quality standards for
administering courses, screens accepting universities in the
consortium and admission of new national academies.
CERTIFICATIONS & ACCREDITATION A- On November 19, 2009, a
global level Certificate Course in Telecentre management was
launched as the first activity of the newly established Global
Secretariat of telecentre.org Academy at the Indaira Gandhi
National Open University, New Delhi, India B- The certificate
course will offer 16 credits to learners in about 20 nations and in
as many languages. The certificate course would be a base to
pursue higher education up to the level of a PhD programme in
any of the institutions in the consortium of Telecentre.org
national academies. Courses are offered online and offline
through a blended learning format, which can be completed
within six months. C- Introduction of a 64 credit (Diploma
Course) in Telecentre management to be completed within 12
months for those who have completed a graduate programme in
any stream or the Telecentre.org Academy certificate course in
Telecentre management.

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d- GTA developed more 15 modules of certification for normal
certificate, B.Sc, M.Sc and MPA online through Indaira Gandhi
national Open University IGNOU with support of and Malaysia
open university. The national university in each country will
provide certification to participant . Why is it innovative method
of education !!!! Gedaref digital city organization (GDCO)
http://gedaref.com/ is a civil society organization in Gedaref
State, East Sudan where ICT is not part of the culture and not a
priority (even to the government) and the disabled are
completely excluded in many ways of life. It is the first and the
only digital city in Sudan. 1- Illiterates can get their own
certificate and they can continue up to higher level of
certification i.e. you start your certificate with the basic a, b, c, …z
and go through the diploma, bachelor and master up to the
doctorate of philosophy (PhD). 3- No normal school certificate is
required. 4- You can get your degree anywhere and at anytime if
you fulfill the requirements of the degree. 5- deaf participation in
conferences, practicing in commercial internet cafes and
computers donation are one the factors that increase the
number of deaf children in the school and it is a promotion for
the easiness of learning computers for the community. 6- Most
of the projects are sustainable and easy to replicate. 7- Deaf and
mute communicate with their families, friends and have another
way of communications instead of the sign language through
chatting and e-mail all over the world instead of one place. 8-
The end users of each project are completely involved and they
are contributed to the project.

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69 SUD CS gedaref digital city GDCO and SuNTA Gedaref Digital City Organization (GDCO) in n/a n/a telecentres and e- n/a
Sudan is one of the Telecentres examples. It is the founder of the services
first Telecentre academy in Africa, the Middle East and the
thirteen in the world (Sudan National Telecentre Academy –
SuNTA). Gedaref digital city organization - GDCO) is
nongovernmental and nonprofit civil society organization (NGO)
(Gedaref Sudan); it is part of the Telecentres movement where
ICT is used for community development. GDCO is the winner of
information for development award (i4d 2007 e-India 2007) for
the inclusion of the disabled. It is the winner of i4d 2008 awards
for the best innovations at the grassroots Telecentres; and it is
the winner of i4d 2009 for the initiatives of civil society for
development for the e-agriculture project and other e-services....
Objectives of SuNTA 1- Best utilization of ICT for community
development 2- Improve the quality of community training to
enhance capacity building, quality skills and certification. 3-
Knowledge exchange, sharing experiences and best practices
through ICT in a public private partnership (PPP) ways 4- Bridging
the digital divide especially within persons with disability,
disadvantage and marginalized communities to include them in
the society. 5- Achieving the millennium developments goals (8th
MDGs) 6- Help the governments to peed up the e-services to the
community. 7- Co-ordination between the working organizations
and institutions in the field of Information Technology to achieve
the shared goals, participate in establishing new Telecentres, and
supporting the operating Telecentres GDCO - SuNTA and re-
engineering of education

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http://api.ning.com/files/j0LH3ZNBM3njj71jdZAkzU60M5GUbr4J
yo3tJDUwn5Ro6sTvyGs6zzLCAvyzxp3tWIv-
M2Zg5ZHZRJYbzAjT8yHV2*rV6ght/sudansunta3GDCO.pdf GDCO
projects are public private partnership (PPP) projects. GDCO
develops these partnerships according to its objectives and
develop its initiatives according to the community needs
considering the millennium development goals (MDGs) as
priority criteria. GDCO works as organizers, facilitator, fundraiser,
providing technical support and provides basic ICT infrastructure
(computers) to the project. 1- Bridging digital divide projects
implementation Bridging the digital divide is one of the main
objectives of GDCO. In Gedaref State there is a big digital divide;
it is very clear between rich and poor, women and men, rural and
urban area, able and disabled communities,. The main reasons
for this digital divide are poverty, climate change, and Sudan
culture. According to statistic, there are more than 3 million out
of schoolchildren in Sudan. In addition to this, more than 15% of
the community are persons with disability who are excluded in
many ways of life specially ICT. Although ICT is not part of the
culture and not a priority in Sudan but GDCO work very hard to
bridge this digital divide in the eastern part of Sudan (Gedaref
state) through many ICT tools (projects or initiatives) including A-
infrastructure of gedaref university E-education (e-Learning or
distance learning) is the use of technology to enable people to
learn anywhere at any time or it is the virtual delivery of training
courses or education to anyone who needs them through ICT
where participant rarely or never meet face-to-face.

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Gedaref university, (IT and computer science college), as other
Sudanese University has a deficit in computers equipment and
other practical equipment and this why the students when they
are graduated they are very weak in practical and application of
what they studied. GDCO and its well-known partner, the digital
City of Eindhoven (DSE) tackled this problem. This partnership
provided Gedaref University (IT and computer science college)
with two computer lab or Telecentres (each one has 50
computers), one computer lab (20 PCs Telecentre) to the
community college (women) in Gedaref University,. The
information supporting fund through the National
Telecommunication Corporation (NTC) provides Gedaref
University through GDCO with two units (20 square meters each)
as an e-library fully equipped with computers and networking to
support e-education. This helps a lot the quality of training and
courses. NTC donated a 228 square meters Telecentre unit to
GDCO and it is constructed as a telemedicine unit in the faculty of
medicine and Gedaref hospital to treat the sick people over the
net and train the medical students and medical staff online.
GDCO established a Telecentre (15 PCs) for training, the
graduated students (humanitarian college graduates who have a
very low chance to the market job demand and support them
with a computer certificate) in partnership with the graduate
supporting fund and more than 400 were trained. B- Out of
schoolchildren (e-learning) Training of ICT skills to out of
schoolchildren (illiterate) is another project to this marginalized
community. According to statistic, there are more than 3 millions
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GDCO developed an initiative with Gedaref ministry of education
(represented by H.E. al-basheer sahal). The ministry of education
(e-learning council and adult education), UNICEF with, GDCO and
Ahfad University started a project of e-learning in the in 3 villages
in Gedaref state. They develop a curriculum and modules of
training through the laptop for each child. The same problem
was severe in northern rural area of Gedaref state where many
children due to the climate change during the rainy seasons go
with their families looking for pastures and grazing area for their
animals where there are no schools and they miss their classes.
So, GDCO will start to replicate the project in the rural area for
the nomad’s children and in the city for the deaf community
(poverty problem) with many partners including, DSE, ministry of
education (the curriculum and modules of training) and the
global knowledge partnership (GKP) . The UNICEF is targeting
100.000 children all over Sudan (14.700 children in Gedaref
state). The project idea is teach out of school children (8 – 17
years) using laptops with green (solar) energy and after two
years of training the children 8 – 12 years old will be settled in
the normal Sudan education system class rooms. C- Telemedicine
e-Health is relatively recent term for healthcare practice
supported by electronic processes and communication.
Telemedicine is a rapidly developing application of clinical
medicine where medical information is transferred through
interactive audiovisual media for consulting. GDCO in partnership
with NTC – NIC, ministry of health and the faculty of medicine in
Gedaref University constructed 228-meters square telemedicine
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1- Treat sick people online globally 2- Training and capacity
building of medical staff and medical students D- Include the
excluded Include the excluded projects are a public private
partnership for marginalized community development. Disable
individuals are still excluded from many areas of life including
information technologies (IT) so ICT training is an important key
qualification and the Standard ICT trainings are insufficient for
the handicapped. In addition to that 1/ more than 99% the
disables are very poor so a big digital divide is created. 2/ they
are considered a useless community and no one care about
them. 3/ show the people that challenges and ICT can create a
great things, also to show the other that learning computer is not
that difficult 4/ Create a new source of revenue for them. 5/ have
an equal access to ICT. 6/ Fighting against poverty within the
disables through ICT. 7/ Help the deaf to communicate with their
families, friends and have another way of communications
instead of the sign language through chatting and e-mail all over
the world instead of one place. 9/ improve their skills through
the computers (ICT). 10/ Sharing knowledge, experience and best
practices to help the disabled,,, GDCO established many
Telecentres (more than 150 computers) in disabled unions,
Alamal School for deaf and mute children in Gedaref and
Khartoum (capital of Sudan) , NGOs working with persons with
disability. GDCO trains the disabled free and provides more than
60 deaf and mute children computers to keep at home,
practicing and communicating with their friends and families.

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GDCO Include the disabled in the community through many


national and international conferences (Abu Dhabi exhibit for
disabled, KITEX Khartoum, scientific innovation exhibit in
Khartoum, Telecentre Cairo). Participation in conferences and
free computers are one the factors that increase the number of
deaf children in the school. e- Foundation of Sudan National
Telecentre Academy (SuNTA) In June 2008, GDCO hosted the 5th
east African Telecentre leaders forum in partnership with
Ugabytes and its partners. 27 international participants from 17
countries attended the forum. On 11 June, Sudan national
Telecentre academy (SuNTA) was declared as the first national
Telecentre academy in Africa and the Middle East and it is the
13th in the world. In august 2008 and at the Telecentre forum in
e-India 2008 the vice chancellor of Indaira Gandhi national Open
University (IGNOU), with telecentre.org, Gedaref state minister
of education, CSDMS and GDCO chair launched the website of
SuNTA. The Digital City of Eindhoven (DSE) Netherlands, the well-
known partner of GDCO in Netherlands donated 750 computers
and more than ten projects were established using ICT for
community development SuNTA as a part of the Global
Telecentre academy (GTA), committed to the best utilization of
ICT for community development in Sudan and improve the
quality of training to enhance capacity building of Telecentre
mangers, operators and the community leaders and provide
them with quality skills and certification. The Sudan information
funds constructed through NTC 1250 school Telecentres and 250
community Telecentres fully equipped with computers, printers,
plasma TV, copy machines and faxes to train the students in the
morning and the community in the evening.

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2- e-Agriculture projects a- GDCO and DSE established a
Telecentre in GMAC and Gedaref farmers unions (more than 60
computers). These Telecentres used in training agricultural
engineers, staff of GMAC and their families and farmers the
basics of computers courses, GIS and GPS at 30% of the normal
cost. The trained agricultural staff improved the existing Gedaref
state digital map. b- GDCO develops a software for GMAC
farmers database (more than 10.000 farmers was included in the
system of GMAC) with 7% (seven) of the normal cost guaranteed
for 20 years for maintenance and software development. This
database helps in speeding up transaction between GMAC and
farmers to get their document (renewing,, agriculture
reports…etc.). c- Improvement of the electronic (digital) map of
Gedaref state natural resources which contains all the
information about the agricultural area, pastures, forest and
rivers in Gedaref state with clear points and demarcation of the
animal routes, farms edges forest boarders which helps in
decreasing the tribal conflicts between the farmers and
shepherds, between farmers and forest department. In addition,
it helps in solving the conflict between farmers in fields (farms), d-
Under design in partnership with Drishtee (India) the agro-
mobile information system, which will provide six e-services to
the farmers, traders or companies These e-services include daily
weather forecast, Crops prices, animal prices, fertilizers
applications, agriculture news break and online support (help
desk). These services are provided in 4 ways a- SMS b- voice
messages c- internet d- through a 3rd party for illiterate people
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(This party will also sell many e-services to community e.g.


mobiles prepaid card, electricity prepaid card, and help farmers
to sell their crops. e- Design of a web portal for gedaref crop
markets (A lot of information about the quality and quantity for
more than 17 crops and animals are available online)
www.gedaref.com/markets e- Reduction in the cost of
agricultural planning and determination the geographical
coordinates (demarcation) of the farms f- GDCO is thinking to use
the available 80 rainfall meters (gauges) in different farms to
measure the rainfall in all directions to help in weather forecast.
g - ICT for disaster control, where GDCO used the available
information on the Internet for disaster control Evolution and
sustainability GDCO is a member in the steering committee of
the economic and social committee for west Asia (UN-ESCWA
Beirut) knowledge centre's, working on development of
marginalized community through ICT. Telecentres started as
community training centres to enhance capacity building. GDCO
developed its Telecentres to knowledge centre where many ICT
project for community development were established. GDCO
utilized the big partnerships in sharing knowledge, experiences
and best practices to achieve these changes. Now, GDCO is
developed to investment Telecentres without changing its
objectives. GDCO expecting to get a profit when its national
Telecentre academy starts in November through training and
certification, also get a profit from the telemedicine units and the
agro-mobile services. All these will help in developing a business
models for GDCO and sustains its Telecentres. In the past GDCO
projects faces many challenges but it solve them. The first
challenge is that, ICT is not part of our culture and not a priority
in Sudan.

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This solved by continuous training with the cost price and using
our partners in the universities staff as volunteers to train in our
Telecentres in the summer vacation (it is free for disabled and
students) so more than 4000 members were trained. Another
challenge is the cost of infra structure and high running cost. It is
solved through partnerships which allow GDCO uses schools and
clubs for training to avoids renting and using its partnership with
the universities staff and graduated students to train in GDCO
Telecentres in the summer vacation free in a win - win
partnership where the graduated get practiced and we train
them web design and Photoshop.. In addition, on call teachers
(temporary staff) help in reducing the cost of training. The quality
of training and certification will be solved through the global
Telecentre academy curriculum and certification of Global
Telecentre Academy and IGNOU through Sudan Open
University,. The absence of clear strategic plan can be solved
through MoU and writing proposal for the projects with the role
of each partner. The big challenge is the financial sustainability
which will be tackled through training revenue, crop market web
portal (selling prices information), telemedicine (percentage from
the patient registration fees), partners support and Agro mobile
SMS (40% of the traffic ). Another big challenge is poverty and
the digital divide where GDCO started training in the poorest
area with the cost price and training the disabled, poor students
and orphans free. The low speed and high cost of internet was
tackled by the government through breaking the monopoly of
telecommunications companies (4 telecommunication
companies and hundreds of ISP) i.e. we have 4 competing
telecommunications companies.

70 SUD CS gedaref digital city ICT ,,, a tool for bridging the digital divide in disadvantage ahmed mahmoud M. EISA, ICT ,,, a tool for bridging the ICT ,,, a tool for ICT ,,, a tool for bridging the digital
community chair of gedaref digital city digital divide in disadvantage bridging the digital divide in disadvantage community
organization community divide in disadvantage
http://www.telecentre.org/pro community
file/AHMED

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71 SUD CS gedaref digital city Another theme can be discussed in the WSIS 2011 is ICT for n/a n/a n/a n/a
organization disadvantage community including people with special
needs and nomads children. Disabled individuals are still
excluded in many ways of life, especially information
communication technology (ICT), so ICT training is an
important key qualification and the Standard ICT trainings
are insufficient for marginalized community. ICT can help
the deaf to communicate with their families and friends. It
helps them have another way of communications instead
of the sign language through chatting and e-mail all over
the world instead of one place. This improves their skills
through the computers (ICT) and helps them in sharing
knowledge, experience and best practices. ICT can be the
eyes for blinds, brain for intellectual disabled and the
tongue for deaf and the ears for the dumb. Nomads are
another example of marginalized community. Nomad's
children travel with their parents looking for better grazing
areas for their animals due to climate change, so they miss
the school. In Sudan, hundreds of thousands of nomad's
children are excluded from education and they are out of
school due to climate change or poverty. ICT can play a
great role to get them back to the education system.

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72 SUD CS gedaref digital city telecentre and telecentre academy tools for e-education and dr. basheerhamad shdarach n/a telecentres tools for n/a
other community services Telecentre.org is a worldwide excutive manger of providing developing
network of individuals and organizations committed to increasing telecentre.org foundation community through
the social and economic impact of grassroots Telecentres.
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Telecentre.org Academy (a new and innovative model of e-
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(Sudan National Telecentre Academy – SuNTA). GDCO developed
many projects in training, skill development and eradication of
illiteracy through e-education. More than 3 million of out of
schoolchildren are waiting for this academy to be included in
normal education system through this academy. May disabled
(deaf and dump) are included in the community through these
Telecentres using ICT (chat, emails) as a tool of communication
instead of the sign language.
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73 SUD CS gedaref digital city include the excluded (DISADVANTAGE COMMUNITY) through ICT AHMED EISA CHAIR OF n/a the same exhibit with n/a
Bridging the digital divide is one of the main objectives of GDCO. GEDAREF DIGITAL CITY the telecentre
In Gedaref State there is a big digital divide; it is very clear ORGANIZATION gedaref suggested by me
between rich and poor, women and men, rural and urban area,
sudan 2nd speaker nabil
able and disabled communities, the main reasons for this digital
eid, syria
divide are poverty, climate change, and Sudan culture. According
to statistic, there are more than 3 million out of schoolchildren in
Sudan. In addition to this, more than 15% of the community are
persons with disability who are excluded in many ways of life
specially ICT. Although ICT is not part of the culture and not a
priority in Sudan but GDCO work very hard to bridge this digital
divide in the eastern part of Sudan (Gedaref state) through many
ICT tools (projects or initiatives) including Include the
excluded projects are a public private partnership for
marginalized community development. Disable individuals are
still excluded from many areas of life including information
technologies (IT) so ICT training is an important key qualification
and the Standard ICT trainings are insufficient for the
handicapped. In addition to that 1/ more than 99% the disables
are very poor so a big digital divide is created. 2/ they are
considered a useless community and no one care about them. 3/
show the people that challenges and ICT can create a great
things, also to show the other that learning computer is not that
difficult 4/ Create a new source of revenue for them. 5/ have an
equal access to ICT. 6/ Fighting against poverty within the
disables through ICT. 7/ Help the deaf to communicate with their
families, friends and have another way of communications
instead of the sign language through chatting and e-mail all over
the world

instead of one place. 9/ improve their skills through the


computers (ICT). 10/ Sharing knowledge, experience and best
practices to help the disabled, GDCO established many
Telecentres (more than 150 computers) in disabled unions,
Alamal School for deaf and mute children in Gedaref and
Khartoum (capital of Sudan), NGOs working with persons with
disability. GDCO trains the disabled free and provides more than
60 deaf and mute children computers to keep at home,
practicing and communicating with their friends and families.
GDCO maintains or changes them if they are broken. GDCO trains
many deaf and dump as trainers (TOT), this help in reducing the
time of training from five months to 21 days and it saves time
and money. GDCO pays the cost of the commercial internet café
for the deaf to demonstrate to the community how easy to
access the net. GDCO Include the disabled in the community
through many national and international conferences (Abu Dhabi
exhibit for disabled, KITEX Khartoum, scientific innovation exhibit
in Khartoum, Telecentre Cairo). Participation in conferences and
free computers are one the factors that increase the number of
deaf children in the school.

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74 SUD CS gedaref digital city e-agriculture a- GDCO and DSE established a Telecentre in AHMED EISA CHAIR OF n/a yes the same exhibit i n/a
GMAC and Gedaref farmers unions (more than 60 computers). GEDAREF DIGITAL CITY sugested in telecentre
These Telecentres used in training agricultural engineers, staff of ORGANIZATION and telecentre
GMAC and their families and farmers the basics of computers
academy
courses, GIS and GPS at 30% of the normal cost. The trained
agricultural staff improved the existing Gedaref state digital map.
b- GDCO develops a software for GMAC farmers database (more
than 10.000 farmers was included in the system of GMAC) with
7% (seven) of the normal cost guaranteed for 20 years for
maintenance and software development. This database helps in
speeding up transaction between GMAC and farmers to get their
document (renewing, agriculture reports…etc.). c- Improvement
of the electronic (digital) map of Gedaref state natural resources
which contains all the information about the agricultural area,
pastures, forest and rivers in Gedaref state with clear points and
demarcation of the animal routes, farms edges forest boarders
which helps in decreasing the tribal conflicts between the
farmers and shepherds, between farmers and forest department.
In addition, it helps in solving the conflict between farmers in
fields (farms), d- Under design in partnership with Drishtee
(India) the agro-mobile information system, which will provide
six e-services to the farmers, traders or companies These e-
services include daily weather forecast, Crops prices, animal
prices, fertilizers applications, agriculture news break and online
support (help desk). These services are provided in 4 ways a-
SMS b- voice messages c- internet d- through a 3rd party for
illiterate people and in rural area. (This party will also sell many e-
services to community e.g. mobiles prepaid

card, electricity prepaid card, and help farmers to sell their crops.
e- Design of a web portal for gedaref crop markets (A lot of
information about the quality and quantity for more than 17
crops and animals are available online)
www.gedaref.com/markets e- Reduction in the cost of
agricultural planning and determination the geographical
coordinates (demarcation) of the farms f- GDCO is thinking to
use the available 80 rainfall meters (gauges) in different farms to
measure the rainfall in all directions to help in weather forecast.
g - ICT for disaster control, where GDCO used the available
information on the Internet for disaster control.

75 SUD CS Gedaref digital global telecentre academy an effective tool for e-education ahmed mahmoud eisa n/a telecentre and e- n/a
city chairman of gedaref digital city services
organization implementation

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76 SUD CS Gedaref digital http://api.ning.com/files/hCa7Z4XQEGMSqVMpy2hvmh*- dr. basheerhamad shadrach n/a n/a n/a
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city excutive director of
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http://www.telecentremagazine.net/articles/article- telecentre.org foundation
details.asp?Title=An-Anatomy-of-telecentre.org-Academy-
Ecosystem&articleid=264&typ=Features Telecentre.org is a
worldwide network of individuals and organizations committed
to increasing the social and economic impact of grassroots
Telecentres. Telecentre.org Academy (a new and innovative
model of e- education) offers skills-development programs to
support grassroots-level actors involved in creating new and
inclusive economies in developing countries and re-engineering
of education. This Telecentre academy consists of many
stakeholders and it has a unique model in e-education. Globally,
a big digital gap is common in many developing countries. These
Telecentres share knowledge, experiences and best practices to
bridge this digital divide. In Sudan this digital gap is so clear in
people with special needs, rural areas and the nomads. Gedaref
Digital City Organization (GDCO) in Sudan is one of the
Telecentres examples. It is the founder of the first Telecentre
academy in Africa, the Middle East and the thirteen in the world
(Sudan National Telecentre Academy – SuNTA). GDCO developed
many projects in training, skill development and eradication of
illiteracy through e-education. More than 3 million of out of
schoolchildren are waiting for this academy to be included in
normal education system through this academy. May disabled
(deaf and dump) are included in the community through these
Telecentres using ICT (chat, emails) as a tool of communication
instead of the sign language.

77 SWI CS CO-HABITER 1- ICT and environment issues in developing countries 2- n/a n/a n/a Migrants initiative for ICT in
Migrants - ICT- and co-development 3- ICTs and Cultural developing countries Details: -
diversity 4- Accessing of ICT and electricity issues in rural Gather migrants in general and
communities and schools in developing countries Africans in particular to discuss
about the ICT's issues on the
continent - Think about future
actions to contribute more to the
development of Africa through ICT's
initiatives

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78 SWI CS Centre for Regulatory Choice in Global Communications Governance - Dr. William J. Drake n/a n/a Regulatory Choice in Global
International Lecturer Communications Governance
Governance Division on Media Change & The contemporary global
communications order has been
Graduate Institute Innovation
marked by a significant increase in the
of International Institute of Mass
number and variety of global
and Communication and Media governance institutions and processes.
Development Research Traditional multilateral
Studies University of Zurich intergovernmentalism has been
- Prof. Michael Latzer supplemented by a range of alternative
Chair, Division Media Change models, including plurilateral, regional,
& Innovation and bilateral intergovernmentalism;
Institute of Mass unilateralism; transnational industry
self-governance; transnational
Communication and Media
multistakeholder governance; the
Research coordinated convergence of
University of Zurich independent practices; and so on. How
- Prof. Wolfgang Kleinwachter do we evaluate the relative political
Wolfgang Kleinwächter feasibility and functional effectiveness
Professor for Internet Policy of these alternatives approaches in
and Regulation relation to specific global policy
Department for Media and challenges? What are their respective
strengths and weaknesses in terms of
Information Studies
cross-cutting principles like equity and
University of Aarhus -
efficiency; transparency, accountability,
Other geographically/gender and inclusiveness; development-
diverse speakers TBD friendliness; and the global public
interest?

How well do such mechanisms cohere


into an effective governance
architecture? This workshop would
seek to elaborate principled analytical
approaches to these and related
questions and to assess them in
relation to key concrete cases of
contemporary global governance.

79 SWI CS FIT C8. FIT Literary Translation committee hopes to see this n/a n/a n/a n/a
strand form part of the thematic aspects of the event in
2011. It has appreciated use of the platform for its event in
2010: World Literature

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80 SWI IO FIT As an international NGO, FIT will be represented at the n/a n/a n/a n/a
Forum by UNESCO under C8. Cultural Diversity. FIT favours
the suggestion made by FAO representative that merges of
strands e.g. Media (C9) and C8 might be fruitful. As
translators' associations often straddle many of the
strands, with the issues that they tackle.

81 SWI IO ITU’s ITU Council 2010 in its resolution on "ITU’s role in ICTs and Reinhard Scholl, Deputy n/a n/a n/a
Standardization improving Road Safety", Resolves 1, has requested ITU-T to Director, TSB, ITU
Bureau include the theme of “ICTs and improving road safety”
among those addressed at the WSIS Forum 2011”. ITU’s
Standardization Bureau will take responsibility to organize
a session on ICTs and improving road safety.

82 SWI IO Internet Society Firstly, given the importance of the WSIS outcomes and their Constance Bommelaer (ISOC), n/a n/a We would be interested in
implementation, we recommend that, in May 2011, the Forum Jovan Kurbalija , Abel Caine organizing a thematic workshop on
include a discussion on the WSIS evaluation and how to improve (UNESCO), Karen Rose (ISOC), “Leadership and Capacity Building”
its follow-up. As one of the accredited participants in WSIS, ISOC
Dawit Bekele (ISOC) with the United Nations’ leading
appreciates the opportunity to contribute to the ongoing
organization in this field, UNESCO.
assessment of WSIS implementation. Our organization has
continued to work closely with all stakeholders in the WSIS We would be equally happy to
process across a range of activities intended to move us toward contribute to a workshop this
an inclusive information society. From the perspective of a not- organization would organize with
for-profit organization such as ISOC, there can be no doubt that other organizations from the civil
the innovations and openness that the WSIS brought to all the society and business communities.
organizations and stakeholders involved has continued into the
implementation phase. We welcome the opportunity to be a part
of this effort, and look forward to continuing to work with others
to contribute. Secondly, we would like to recommend exploring
the specific topic of “Leadership and Capacity Building” (relating
to AL C4. Capacity Building). The Internet Society has a long
standing experience in technical capacity building as well as
policy training. As part of its mission and vision, the Internet
Society is dedicated to cultivating a new generation of Internet
leaders, aged from 20 to 40 years old, who will address the
critical technology, policy, business, and education challenges
that lie ahead.

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The Internet Society’s Next Generation Leaders (NGL) program
(http://www.isoc.org/leaders/ ) is a unique blend of coursework
and practical experience to help prepare young professionals
from around the world to become the next generation of
Internet technology, policy, and business leaders. This program,
based multi-stakeholder partnerships (EU Commission, OECD,
IGF, DiploFoundation, Afnic, etc.) addresses an important issue
which could be proposed as a focus area for the 2011 WSIS
Forum: How to cultivate the next generation of Internet Leaders.
Today's world has become increasingly complex and
interconnected. With more than 1.5 billion people already
online, the challenge remains to extend the benefits of the
Internet to the billions more who can benefit from the economic,
cultural, and educational opportunities the Internet provides.
The Internet model of decentralized architecture and distributed
responsibility for development, operation, and management has
been the catalyst for boundless innovation and creativity. That
model also creates important leadership opportunities, especially
in those spaces where technology, policy, and business intersect.
In this new context full of opportunities, the Internet Society’s
Next Generation Leaders (NGL) program was specifically
designed to foster “Leadership and Capacity Building”.

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83 SWI IO Raising the Floor - The impact of Cloud Computing on the accessibility of ICT Richard Schwerdtfeger - IBM Announce the formal It would be a stall to THEME: Using Cloud computing to
International for developing countries. Is Cloud computing a game Emerging Technologies Lead incorporation of Raising the 1) learn about how augment web and platform
changer or accessibility - in the same way that mobile Architect - Expert on emerging Floor - International cloud computing can be technologies to provide affordable,
used to move disability
phones were a game changer for telephony. Countries technologies. Expert on ICT (http://RaisingTheFloor.org) a localizable, and effective Internet
accessibility into
have national phone systems that could never have built a Access Vint Cerf Expert on coalition on Internet access) access technologies to people with
countries where other
wireline phone system infrastructure. There is a lot of Cloud computing and its Meeting would be on Cloud approaches are disability, literacy or aging related
hype about cloud computing solving everything -- and it potentials - including how it computing and its potential to impractical 2) learn barriers to Internet use.
can't. But the Internet was just the rails - and cloud can change everything Gregg provide affordable accessibility about a new Workshop would make people
computing the train. It will change everything - like the Vanderheiden Ph.D President to developing nations. international aware of efforts internationally in
printing press did. Like the discovery/development of Raising the Floor - Expert on organization that is this area and give them a chance to
language did. We need to understand it. We need to be technology and disability bringing together people both learn about and contribute to
sure that people with barriers to Internet use due to Leading an international around the world on these efforts. It could help gather
Cloud computing and
disability, literacy or aging will be able to participate in this collaboration to build a Global information to better direct these
disability 3) provide an
new world that is evolving. Not alongside the rest of Public Inclusive Infrastructure anchor point for people
efforts, tie together people
society -- but society will be impossible to participate in to provide access for people to meet on this topic (technical, policy, program, and
without being able to use technology. And that is a scary with disability, literacy, or 4) learn how to locate local leaders) to help keep these
thought for many. aging related barriers to and connect with people groups from being left behind as
Internet access - particularly in with their interest, their technology sweeps into these
developing countries. skills or in their countries. Participants would be
geographical area that able to learn how to connect to
are interested in this
and/or contribute to a network that
problem and working to
already is on every content except
address it.
Antarctica.

84 SYR CS Studies Centre for I agree to enlarge the geographic reach and improve the n/a n/a n/a n/a
Handicapped role of ICT and the role of UN in this initiative, it's better
Research reflection for interesting in MDGs in all developing
countries

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85 TOG GO Direction La mesure de l'économie de l'informatrion et des n/a n/a Lors des sommets Thème: Mesure de la société de
Générale de la statistiques sur les TIC dans les pays d'Afrique précédents, la l'information en Afrique Detail:
Statistique et de subsaharienne communauté Lors des sommets précédents, la
international avait mis
la Comptabilité communauté international avait mis
en place un partenariat
Nationale en place un partenariat mondial
mondial pour la mesure
(DGSCN) (stat- de l'économie de pour la mesure de l'économie de
togo.org) l'information.Mais force l'information.Mais force est de
est de constater qu'en constater qu'en Afrique
Afrique subsaharienne, subsaharienne, seul le Sénégal a pu
seul le Sénégal a pu mener une enqête autonome sur le
mener une enqête Secteur TIC.Il s'avère donc
autonome sur le Secteur indispensable de chercher des
TIC.Il s'avère donc
financements nécessaires pour
indispensable de
chercher des
mettre en place un programme
financements international pour mesurer la
nécessaires pour mettre société de l'information dans les
en place un programme pays du sud, en particulier dans les
international pour pays d'Afrique subsaharienne
mesurer la société de
l'information dans les
pays du sud, en
particulier dans les pays
d'Afrique subsaharienne

86 TOG BE Terre Nouvelle The contribution of youth migrants in ICTs progress in less- n/a National youth exchange on n/a Youth migrants and the progress of
developped countries. WSIS 2011 ICTS for youth in Africa

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87 UAE BE Etisalat n/a Mohammed Omran, Chairman n/a Reaching a Higher n/a
of Etisalat Mohammed Quality of Life within
Omran leads Etisalat the the Community -
Middle East’s largest operator Technology that
and third largest corporation. reduces emissions and
With a market value in excess environmental
of Dhs. 80 billion (US$20 damage -
billion) and annual revenues of Technology that
approximately Dhs. 30 billion provides access to
(US$8 billion) Etisalat is today healthcare and
on the verge of being education -
numbered amongst the top ten Technology that
operators in the world. enables
Omran leads a true regional entrepreneurship
powerhouse with operations in through providing
eighteen countries across the access to finance and
Middle East, Africa and Asia. markets
Etisalat’s terrestrial GSM
network now covers a
population of two billion and
its satellite network provides
services over two thirds of the
planet’s surface.

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88 UAE GO Telecommunicati Dear Sir, We are glad to participate actively in the next we have not yet concluded our n/a currently we are n/a
on Regulatory WSIS Forum 2011. The Forum is great venue to measure speaker list , we will revert targeting to finalize
Authority countries progress, discuss issues, and plan for the future. back to you in due course. the UAE National
It is of our utmost pleasure to submit the below tentative WSIS Committee
topics for the WSIS Forum 2010. Please note, that we may Report to be
update the list of topics and speakers in the future. We will published at ITU. the
revert back to you soon with more detailed elaboration on Exhibition stall will be
our contribution in due course. Moreover, we will be very benefitial to that.
sharing with you our UAE National WSIS Committee Report we will confirm once
once completed soon , please visit also ( www.wsis.ae ) our topics are
The Proposed Topics (UAE Contribution) 1. Abu Dhabi E- finalized in the WSIS
Government (History, Roadmap and Achievements) 2. Forum.
Emirates Identity Authority 3. Wage Protection System 4.
aeCERT ( UAE Computer Emergency Response Team) 5.
UAE Cloud Computing 6. Wareed ( Health Care Project) 7.
UAE IXP (Internet Exchange Point) 8. Ankabut ( Research
and Development Network) 9. Kalima ( Cultural & Local
Content & Translation Project) 10. Computer & Internet
Training for Blinds 11. Hamdan E-University

89 UGA CS Commonwealth Rural youth and ICTs; Use of ICTs to empower rural n/a Lets share the best practices Youth & ICTs for 'making the Youth agents of Change
Association- communities in poverty reduction; and making it Happen and make ICTs transform Change This is an through ICTs" and its hoped that
Uganda through ICTS for PWDs societies and we shall try to area of which we our CoE members will making paper
have a 2hr session with other think our GAID CoE presentations from at least three
GAID Initiatives like women on can be abely member countries
how to create partnerships for represented since its
regional and global projects in transformation from
ICT4D the WSIS youth
caucus in 2005

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90 UK MI City University I believe that the WSIS forum should also cover the issues n/a n/a n/a n/a
London of the major changes in the agenda of public and cultural
diplomacy being altered in the age of rapid development of
social media, or Web 2.0 trends in global communications.
Though interesting attempts have been done to frame
public diplomacy and cultural diplomacy in to the new
realm of emerged social phenomena, there is still a little
clarity about what exactly “open source” approach means
when it concerns international work of major national
cultural organizations. It is important to address this
problem by investigation the nature of social media as a
complex phenomenon and question the potentials of social
media to reach global audiences within the agenda of
cultural institutions’ international practices. Specifically, it
is significant to look closely at international social networks
on the Internet through a multifaceted prism of
geographical, cultural, social, and political diversity; and
critically analyses the abilities of the social media to
represent international publics on the Internet as a
democratic and inclusive community.

91 UK CS University of Cloud Computing - cost-saving, green technology, business n/a n/a n/a n/a
Southampton opportunities/development, infrastrcuture consolidation,
business models and sustainability, security and enterprise
portability. My topic is "Cloud Computing - revolutions
and added values for the 21st Century".

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92 URS BE i-Jet Media Social Media Opportunities for Branding and Marketing n/a n/a n/a n/a
Description. Myths have turned to reality. We are now
eyewitnesses of how the whole scheme of whatever
distribution in the world is changing. Information society
and tremendous growth in sociality of the Internet are
discovering new amazing opportunities to promote any
good or service via social media, in social networks and
web communities. The Internet has already made itself
known as huge space for selling both virtual and real
products. Social media form a special recommendation
system which means more and more people buy anything
having previously seen a good recommendation of a
respective good or service, for example in social networks.
Social games make the purchasing process funny and
thrilling. Moreover, social media and their tools show so
much about audience and allow to target a marketing
strategy better. That is why they impressively differ from
billboards. Alexey Kostarev summarizes opportunities and
shares existing experience of marketing and advertising in
the social media space.

93 URS BE i-Jet Media Who Wants to Be a Millionaire: Success Story of Young Russian n/a n/a n/a n/a
Social Game Startup The information society which is
developing further gives any person from any location a chance
to earn millions of USD annually. Only a strong desire and laptop
are required, according to a conviction of Alexey Kostarev, a
young Russian entrepreneur from the city of Ekaterinburg who
started his own Internet company i-Jet Media from point zero,
and then farmed it up to the market capitalization at $100
million, organized a branch network across the world, and
brought the startup to find its place among the world social
games market leaders. Alexey will share his history of success
which is a striking example of how the information society not
only opens up new opportunities for self-actualization, but also
favours appearance of new and fast social lifts. Alexey Kostarev
is Co-Founder and CEO of i-Jet Media which is a world leading
social games publisher and distribution network. Following the
results of 2010, he was named to five finalists of the Mashable
Awards in the category “Entrepreneur of the Year” following the
results of 2010 and awarded with the Man of the Year in IT prize
established by a popular Russian business magazine, Delovoi
Kvartal. In 2001, he graduated from the Electrotechnical
Department of the Urals State Technical University and founded
an internet provider, Medialt. The business virtually started in an
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Medialt succeeded to become the most profitable internet
provider in the city of Ekaterinburg just after four years. In 2005,
Alexey Kostarev and his partners decided to sell Medialt and
focus on games. Thus, in 2005, i-Jet Media was founded. In
2007, i-Jet Media published its first game projects on Rambler.ru,
and the first cult social game Maffia New was launched.
Following its success, Alexey Kostarev decided to focus on games
for social networks and left for the USA to study the social games
market. In April 2009, i-Jet Media launched Happy Harvest
(Happy Farmer) which exploded the Russian Internet: the game
succeeded to collect about 10 million unique active users, and
earned USD $20 million during less than one year. This record of
the Runet is still unbroken. Happy Harvest was also honoured
with the Google Trend prize as the best game of 2009. i-Jet
Media today is one of leading social games companies in the
world, and the largest social games publisher and distributor in
Russia and Eastern Europe.
Nowadays, over 60 million users of 30 social networks all over
the world play 70 applications published by i-Jet Media. There
are all top social game brands in the portfolio of i-Jet Media.
Nowadays, i-Jet Media is developing European and Asian
markets, and mobile social games services. Investors estimate
the current market capitalization of i-Jet Media at USD $100
million. Offices of i-Jet Media are situated in Silicon Valley (CA,
USA) and Beijing (China) as well as Ekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk,
Nizhny Tagil and Ozersk (Russia). A new office in Ukraine is to be
set up soon. Facebook account:
http://www.facebook.com/alexeykostarev LinkedIn account:
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/alexey-kostarev/11/168/b59
Twitter account (English and Russian):
http://twitter.com/iJetMedia

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94 URS BE i-Jet Media State and Future of the Internet and Socialization Description. Alexey Kostarev is Co-Founder n/a n/a n/a
Internet is the most important element of the modern and CEO of i-Jet Media which is a
information society. People can get any information there and world leading social games
become authors of the user generated content. Socialization of publisher and distribution
the Internet is now leading to a change of the whole product network. Following the results of
distribution system and spread of the recommendation system 2010, he was named to five
as a main engine of online promotion of various goods and finalists of the Mashable Awards
services. The mobile Internet is growing fast. How is the Internet in the category “Entrepreneur of
changing, and what will it look like in the future? What will users the Year” following the results of
and businessmen see, and what challenges should they expect? 2010 and awarded with the Man
Will Facebook absorb all and sundry, and what the future may of the Year in IT prize established
hold for social media in general? Alexey Kostarev, CEO & Co- by a popular Russian business
founder of i-Jet Media, will share his views on the history and magazine, Delovoi Kvartal. In
future of the Internet as well its socialization, and tell about his 2001, he graduated from the
experience of working in the Internet business. Electrotechnical Department of
the Urals State Technical
University and founded an
internet provider, Medialt. The
business virtually started in an
apartment for lack of money to
rent an office. However, Medialt
succeeded to become the most
profitable internet provider in the
city of Ekaterinburg just after four
years. In 2005, Alexey Kostarev
and his partners decided to sell
Medialt and focus on games.
Thus, in 2005, i-Jet Media was
founded. In 2007, i-Jet Media
published

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its first game projects on
Rambler.ru, and the first cult
social game Maffia New was
launched. Following its success,
Alexey Kostarev decided to focus
on games for social networks and
left for the USA to study the social
games market. In April 2009, i-
Jet Media launched Happy
Harvest (Happy Farmer) which
exploded the Russian Internet:
the game succeeded to collect
about 10 million unique active
users, and earned USD $20 million
during less than one year. This
record of the Runet is still
unbroken. Happy Harvest was
also honoured with the Google
Trend prize as the best game of
2009. i-Jet Media today is one of
leading social games companies in
the world, and the largest social
games publisher and distributor in
Russia and Eastern Europe.
Nowadays, over 60 million users
of 30 social networks all over the
world play 70 applications
published by i-Jet Media. There
are all top social game brands in
the portfolio of
i-Jet Media. Nowadays, i-Jet
Media is developing European
and Asian markets, and mobile
social games services. Investors
estimate the current market
capitalization of i-Jet Media at
USD $100 million. Offices of i-Jet
Media are situated in Silicon
Valley (CA, USA) and Beijing
(China) as well as Ekaterinburg,
Chelyabinsk, Nizhny Tagil and
Ozersk (Russia). A new office in
Ukraine is to be set up soon.
Employees: 150+. Twitter
account (English and Russian):
http://twitter.com/iJetMedia
http://facebook.com/iJetMedia
http://www.linkedin.com/compa
ny/i-jet-media

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95 USA GO Center for Threats to computer systems, networks and even personal n/a n/a n/a Theme: Basic requirements for
Hemispheric financial data have exploded in recent years. Industry experts international cybersecurity At
Defense Studies estimate that 5000 new pieces of malware are released on the present the legal structures and
internet daily. It is a never ending game of chase between the
international cooperation
criminals and the security forces. While much of the effort on
mechanisms for cybersecurity are
the criminal side is focused on the traditional goal of profit
making, the skills and criminal networks developed could be lacking. The Council of Europe
turned to attacks on critical infrastructure, government, or Treaty on Cyber Crime is at best
military targets. The age of cyber war for some has already basic and without a real
arrived. The events of the past few years in Estonia, Georgia and enforcement mechanism. Given the
South Korea are repeatable in the developing. As these success of other voluntary, interest
economies continue to develop and integrate into the global based governance regimes like the
network, more avenues of attack are created. In an area Financial Action Task Force (FATF)
where the frontier is global and the risk local and pervasive,
in its response to money laundering
developing economies have been slow to adapt. Many countries
do not even have a rudimentary government incident response
and terrorist financing, better
capability or even appropriate legal structures to respond to an models for cooperation exist. The
attack on critical systems. The robust efforts of some nations workshop would consist of
may be rendered moot when another country fails to act in an exploration of the FATF-model for a
environment that does not respect traditional concepts of proposed cybersecurity regime.
sovereignty. Economic growth depends on connection to the Items to be discussed should
network; being cut off because you failed to meet the security include participants, the need for
requirements will place a country and its citizens outside the
regional based bodies in tune with
game.
differing interests, potential plans of
action for such bodies, and
potential responses/sanctions for
non-cooperating entities.

96 USA IO MHealth Alliance 1. Health Information Systems, mHEalth and Health n/a n/a n/a n/a
/ UN Foundation Systems Strengthening: how it all fits together. 2.
Bridging the Gaps in the Accessibilities Barriers of mHealth:
Whether it is cultural, based on social constructs, or lack of
infrastructure, this topic will address the major barriers
effecting the future of m/eHealth. This includes discussing
lessons learned as well as policy, regulatory issues that
need to be addressed.

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97 USA CS University of Future of work, education and society-technological Dr. Tracey Wilen-Daugenti is n/a n/a n/a
Phoenix Research transformations President of the University of
Institute This presentation visually explores how rapid Phoenix Research Institute and
Visiting Scholar at Stanford
advancements in society and work fueled by technology
University’s Media X program for
are creating new pressure on employers and educators to
research on the impact of
change. These pressures include an increased demand for information and technology on
an educated and skilled workforce, technology relevancy, society.
and a propensity for lifelong learning. The 21st century
requires preparing students for current and future Dr. Wilen-Daugenti has authored
employment to ensure personal and national prosperity. numerous books and papers on
During this visual presentation I will discuss some of the the future of higher education,
trends and changes in the workforce and society facilitated including how technological
innovations transform the
by the advancements in technology that is changing the
learning experience. Her most
way that education and employers need to service today's recent book is .edu: Technology
modern workforce. and Learning Environments in
Higher Education (2008). In
Audience Outcomes/Objectives addition, she is the author of a
- Current trends in higher education and distance learning seven-book series focused on
- Future technology trends and impact on higher women and international
education business.
- How UOPX and other universities are addressing these
Dr. Wilen-Daugenti has delivered
trends
over 200 speeches globally and
has appeared on numerous
international and national radio
and TV programs. She has been
quoted in the Los Angeles Times,

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Wired Magazine, The Wall Street
Journal, and San Jose Mercury
News and has been interviewed
on CNN. She was named San
Francisco Woman of the Year in
2002 for her outreach efforts in
the fields of academia, women’s
research, and technology. Dr.
Wilen-Daugenti holds a bachelor’s
degree in psychology from
Connecticut College, an MBA in
international business from San
Jose State University, and a
doctorate in international
business from Golden Gate
University in California.
Previously, she was the Higher
Education Practice Lead for Cisco
Systems’ strategy organization
and held executive positions at HP
and Apple Computer.

98 USA MI University of A couple of questions that might be addressed in the forum n/a n/a n/a
Wisconsin, River include: 1.) Are ICTs being used to create a truly global
Falls scientific enterprise in which those working in the research
systems in low-income areas not only consume knowledge
from other locations but are also actively creating new
knowledge? 2.) Are ICTs being used as a tool for scientific
collaboration both within and between countries? 3.) Are
female researchers using ICTs to integrate themselves into
professional networks or to improve the quality/quantity of
publication productivity, increasing the visibility of their
research?

99 VIE GO STAMEQ ”Exchange about the impact of women in participating on n/a n/a n/a n/a
boosting economic development in his country”

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100 BRA GO Celso Alexandre - Collective control of computer systems (similar to - Renato Dagnino n/a n/a n/a
Souza de Alvear plenaries). - Henrique Cuckierman
Analista de - Information Technologies to support Social Movements.
Tecnologia da
Informação da
Superintendência
de TIC da UFRJ
(SuperTIC/UFRJ)
Pesquisador
Extensionista do
Núcleo de
Solidariedade
Técnica -
SOLTEC/UFRJ
UFRJ (Federal
University of Rio de
Janeiro)

101 FRA CS CSDPTT - Annexe 1 - Remarques sur la forme n/a n/a n/a n/a
Coopération- Remarque # 1 :
Solidarité- Afin de se concentrer sur l’essentiel, d’utiliser au mieux le temps
très limité restant pour atteindre ses objectifs et respecter
Développement
comme il se doit les participants, notamment ceux de la société
civile et plus particulièrement les représentants des organisations
des PeD, le Forum devra abandonner ses sessions solennelles,
ces déclarations emphatiques et ses « shows » médiatiques qui
n’y ont pas leur place (exemple : le « show » Negroponte en
2009). Le Forum n’est pas une manifestation mondaine ni de
relations publiques (ceci concerne en particulier l’UIT !), mais une
réunion de travail et d’échange d’informations, de partenaires
engagés dans l’atteinte des objectifs les plus importants qu’ils se
sont fixés dans le cadre du SMSI.
Le temps ainsi gagné permettra d’aborder plus concrètement les
grands thèmes en instance et de fixer pour chacun un calendrier
d’avancement et de réalisation. Un thème majeur est le
financement des objectifs du SMSI. Il conviendra de lui réserver
une place prioritaire.
Remarque # 2 :
Depuis son origine le SMSI est le théâtre d’expression de la «
pensée unique » néolibérale et magnifiant le secteur privé au
détriment du rôle de l’Etat. Cette pensée est parfaitement
reflétée dans le discours récurrent de l’UIT. Y compris jusqu’à
contredire les recommandations et les documents élaborés par
d’autres agences des Nations unies. J’ai donné des exemples
concrets de ces contradictions les plus graves lors de la réunion
du 23 novembre.
Cette réunion a aussi dressé le constat que le SMSI n’a pas la
place que l’on souhaiterait dans les médias et l’opinion
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et s’est interrogée sur les raisons.


Pour que le Forum mérite son nom et trouve un minimum
d’audience dans le public, il doit s’ouvrir à un véritable débat des
idées –contradictoire et holistique- qui sous-tendent une société
de l’information ! Il faut remplacer les discours lénifiants à la
gloire des technologies et de leur pouvoir à répondre à tout
problème, par un véritable débat sur les aspects sociétaux et
tolérer la contradiction (ceci concerne encore l’UIT).
Remarque # 3 :
Diverses initiatives ont été lancées unilatéralement à grand
renfort de spectacle par des agences des Nations unies, sans
aucune information, ni –a fortiori- de consultation préalables des
parties prenantes du SMSI. L’exemple le plus frappant est celle
prise en 2010 par l’UIT et l’UNESCO ( !) de créer la Commission
mondiale « large bande » (Global Broadband Commission) et
d’en fixer les membres -tous des sommités mondiales où le
secteur privé directement intéressé par les conclusions de la
Commission est largement majoritaire- au mépris des règles les
plus élémentaires sur les confusions d’intérêts, et du respect le
plus simple des associations de la société civile et tout
particulièrement celle des pays en développement. A elle seule,
cette Commission pose un singulier cas de conflit d’éthique dans
une société de l’information (LA C-10 du Plan d’action de
Genève).
Désormais, les organisateurs du SMSI, en premier lieu l’UIT,
veilleront à associer étroitement et de manière équilibrée les
parties prenantes du SMSI à toute prise de décision de cette
importance, faute de perdre tout crédit dans les actions qu’il
préconise.

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Annexe 2 - Remarques sur le contenu


Remarque # 1 : Mécanismes de financement
Alors que le financement des objectifs du SMSI a été –avec la
gouvernance de l’Internet- une lacune majeure du SMSI, il aura
fallu attendre quatre ans pour que l’UNGIS s’en saisisse en
tenant une réunion ouverte en octobre 2009 sur ce thème. Une
trop courte session lui a ensuite été consacrée lors du Forum du
SMSI en 2010. Cependant elle a permis de « démystifier » une
autre initiative unilatérale de l’UIT : Connect Africa. Le « Plan
Marshall pour l’Afrique » de 55 milliards de dollars promis par les
participants à la Réunion de Kigali (organisée pompeusement par
l’UIT qui n’y a pas convié la société civile !) s’est révélée être
selon un haut représentant de l’UIT « une promesse sans suite,
faute d’engagement exigé ».
Afin d’éviter de tels errements, de focaliser toute l’attention
requise sur ce problème fondamental et de rattraper le retard
important pris par les organisateurs du SMSI, il convient de
consacrer systématiquement une journée du Forum au débat et
à l’examen des possibilités réelles de financement disponibles
et/ou à créer, face aux réalisations concrètes d’objectifs du SMSI.
Voir la proposition suite à cette remarque en Annexe 3
Remarque # 2 : Liens Energie- Télécoms/TIC
La disponibilité de sources d’alimentation fiables et abordables
est un préalable à tout déploiement de TIC et de réseaux de
télécommunications y compris leur accès. Dans les PeD, et plus
particulièrement dans les vastes territoires en Afrique, ces
sources doivent être à base d’énergies renouvelables (ER),
notamment photovoltaïques.

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Il convient donc que le SMSI adopte et promeut dès maintenant


une approche sytémique de cette thématique, associant
étroitement les technologies ER et TIC, notamment dans les
applications TIC qui font l’objet des LA C-2 et C-4, de même que
dans les applications préconisées par la LA C-7.
Voir la proposition suite à cette remarque en Annexe 3.
Remarque # 3 : Synergie inter-réseaux (SIR)
Depuis le tout début du SMSI, les apports positifs, en termes
économiques comme en termes de viabilité, de durabilité et de
développement de ce concept ont été présentés comme le
résultat d’une démarche holistique à la place de l’approche
sectorielle, traditionnellement pratiquée par l’ensemble des
coordonnateurs des LA, UIT en tête.
Or, s’agissant des infrastructures, cette approche traditionnelle
ne répond pas aux impératifs financiers –eu égard aux volumes
immenses des besoins en investissements dans les
infrastructures- ni même à la nécessaire cohérence entre projets
de développement d’autres infrastructures dans les PeD.
Le concept de la SIR et sa méthodologie d’application ont été
présentées à tous les acteurs majeurs impliqués dans le
développement : Banque mondiale, Banque européenne
d’investissement, UIT, Pays ACP, Parlement européen, … Tous
ont convenu de sa pertinence et de son impact positif. Mais
aucun n’en a tiré les leçons pour sa propre action dans le cadre
du SMSI et surtout, dans le cadre de l’association et l’adéquation
des objectifs du SMSI avec les Objectifs du Millénaire pour le
Développement (OMD).

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En conséquence, la vison pluridisciplinaire et holistique propre à


la SIR devra succéder à la vison sectorielle, trop étroite et trop
partielle, dans l’examen des projets et problématiques relevant
des infrastructures et des réseaux, en prenant aussi en compte
les applications et services proposés aux utilisateurs de ces
infrastructures quelle qu’en soit leur nature.
La SIR devra désormais être inscrite au programme des Fora
SMSI, et son application systématique aux projets
d’infrastructure télécoms/TIC sera recommandée. De même on
évaluera dans les sessions consacrées à la SIR les effets de son
application, en termes d’économie comme en termes de
développement concret.
Remarques # 4 : Infrastructures et Réseaux.
La réalisation des objectifs de la LA C-2 « L’infrastructure de
l’information et de la communication : fondement essentiel
d’une société de l’information », et, en particulier, de ses points
d) et j), exige une approche programmatique et un suivi régulier
des progrès réalisés dans l’implémentation des réseaux dorsaux,
nationaux et régionaux et de leurs accès y compris dans les zones
éloignées généralement agricoles, donc vitales pour les PeD.
Jusqu’ici, le SMSI a failli à montrer une progression concrète des
infrastructures en jeu, et ses initiatives intempestives (voir
Annexe 1) ajoutées au déploiement anarchique d’artères
(exemple : les câbles sous-marins sur les côtes de l’Afrique) et
aux projets menés sans aucun concept cohérent de réseau
(exemple : le projet Central African Backbone), ont brouillé
complètement la vision d’ensemble qui permettrait de faire un
bilan des progrès réalisés dans cette LA « fondamentale ».

Les prochains Fora devront donc encourager les actions


concertées entre les acteurs impliqués et recentrer les projets sur
leur vocation (unicité plutôt que multiplicité) et sur leur
indispensable inscription dans un réseau cohérent, fiable et «
survivable ». La Session traditionnelle consacrée à l’examen de la
LA C-2 sous les auspices de l’UIT devra abandonner les discours
emphatiques sur les réalisations annoncées ou effectuées, au
profit de l’approche plus rigoureuse et plus concrète respectant
les principes énoncés plus haut.

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Annexe 3 - Propositions

Proposition # 1 : Constituer un Forum sur les mécanismes de


financement des TIC pour le développement (FMF)

La deuxième phase du suivi du SMSI et la réalisation de ses


objectifs dont une partie devraient avoir un impact positif sur les
objectifs du Millénaire pour le Développement, exigent une
mobilisation des ressources financières importantes. Le Groupe
de travail sur les mécanismes financiers, institué au cours de la
phase de Tunis du SMSI (acronyme anglais TFFM), a rédigé un
rapport identifiant les mécanismes appropriés, selon lui, pour
financer les activités à entreprendre pour atteindre les objectifs
du Plan d’action du SMSI. Ce rapport a marqué la fin de ce
groupe de travail, alors que son contenu est loin d’être exhaustif
quant à l’identification des ressources de financement approprié,
laissant finalement le champ de la recherche du financement en
friche, alors qu’il est d’une importance capitale. En tant que vice-
chairman du groupe de travail de la société civile sur la même
problématique, j’avais présenté en séance plénière
intergouvernementale de PrepCom-3 (2005) une liste plus
complète de propositions de ressources mobilisables.
Il convient, en conséquence, de constituer rapidement un Forum
sur les mécanismes de financement (FMF) à l’instar du Forum sur
la gouvernance de l’Internet (FGI), qui fonctionne régulièrement
sur la base de réunions annuelles et contribue à l’élaboration de
propositions afin d’améliorer la gouvernance du réseau des
réseaux.

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Le FMF devra être basé sur le principe du multipartenariat et être
mandaté pour élaborer des propositions à l’attention des divers
acteurs impliqués dans la réalisation des objectifs du SMSI.
Comme l’UNGIS a pris l’initiative de réunir –quatre ans après la
fin de mandat de la TFFM- l’ensemble des parties prenantes du
SMSI et d’organiser une session dédiée à cette problématique au
Forum 2010 du SMSI, cet organisme semble tout indiqué pour
présider le FMF et en rendre compte à l’ECOSOC.
La constitution du FMF devrait être soumise aux parties
prenantes du SMSI lors du Forum 2011 et ses membres devraient
être désignés par chacune des quatre parties prenantes, afin de
pouvoir débuter ses travaux à la suite du Forum 2011 du SMSI.

Proposition # 2 : Mettre en place un Groupe spécial d’étude «


Energies renouvelables et équipements Télécoms/TIC » au
Bureau de Développement des Télécommunications de l’UIT (UIT-
D).

Les Energies renouvelables (ER) constitueront dans le futur


proche un recours essentiel pour alimenter les équipements de
réseau et les sites techniques dispersés dans les pays en
développement (PeD). Parmi les ER, la technologie
photovoltaïque est la plus intéressante et la plus prometteuse.
Toutefois, chacune des technologies –photovoltaïque et
télécoms/TIC- se développe indépendamment l’une de l’autre,
ce qui entraîne des surcoûts et des complications inutiles, et
sources de disfonctionnements dès lors qu’elles sont associées.

Le groupe d’études serait ouvert aux organisations et sociétés


actives et reconnues pour leur compétence dans les deux
domaines concernés. Les résultats attendus de ce groupe
d’études sont, par exemple, la proposition de normes d’interface
entre équipements photovoltaïque (PV) et télécom/TIC, et
l’adaptation optimale d’alimentations PV pour les sites
techniques et les nœuds de réseau. Il pourrait également
proposer des solutions d’alimentation d’équipements terminaux
à base d’ER pour les centres communautaires ou administratifs,
voire pour les écoles, soit indépendantes, soit partagées avec les
générateurs à base d’ER des sites télécoms (mini-réseau) dans les
zones excentrées des PeD.
Rappel : Le photon est l’élément d’information transmis dans les
fibres optiques, comme il est le générateur d’électrons dans un «
panneau solaire ». La technologie photonique réunit donc deux
familles : les télécommunicants et les énergiciens. Et l’UIT est
l’hébergeur le plus approprié pour le groupe d’études proposé.

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102 INT IO UNEP Secretariat Suggested topic: Environmentally safe disposal and The thematic workshop could n/a Avoiding E-waste - Avoiding E-waste - Moving to
of the Basel recycling of discarded hardware and components used in bring together panelists from Environmentally safe environmentally sound life-cycle
Convention ICTs different organizations dealing disposal and recycling management of ICTs
The interactive facilitation meeting on electronic waste (e- with ICTs to discuss in a of discarded hardware
waste) at the WSIS Forum 2010 highlighted that brainstorming session possible and components used
uncontrolled dumping of obsolete e-products and material ways of establishing in ICTs
recovery processes without adequate protective measures partnerships that link Requirements:
have resulted in environmental pollution while exposing environmentally sound 1 meter pinwall to fix
management of end-of-life
millions of people to toxic substances and emissions. The posters, and
computing equipment into ICT
technology for environmentally sound dismantling and respective table space
development programmes,
disposal of e-waste exists, but it has to be linked to the in front of the pinwall
including procurement,
product life-cycle to become economically viable. to display broschures
infrastructure strengthening and
A thematic workshop on environmentally sound
education on national, regional
management of e-waste could focus on the question how
and international level.
efforts to bridge the digital divide can follow the life-cycle Suggested panelists could
approach to avoid problems for the health of workers and include:
the general public as well as for the environment. - ITU
- UNCTAD
- UNESCO
- World Bank
- UNEP Secretariat of the Basel
Convention
- Representative of a developing
country
- Others

103 INT IO International - Bridging Standardization Gap in developing countries François Rauser, IEC Affiliate n/a n/a n/a
Electrotechnical Country Programme Secretary
Commission (IEC) - Electrification (renewable energies) and ICT & International Liaisons

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104 INT IO GSM Association 1. Ensuring that mobile Internet services are delivered in a n/a n/a n/a n/a
(GSMA) responsible way that respects the security and privacy of
individuals.
Existing practices and regulations governing privacy, data
security and Internet safety, which typically originate from before
the rise of smartphones and social networking, now need to be
reviewed by both the mobile Internet ecosystem and policy
makers. Today, many people are increasingly enmeshed in an
international web of online relationships, but online privacy and
safety is still mostly governed by a patchwork of national and
local laws designed for the PC-based Internet.
The GSMA supports a “privacy by design“ approach in which
privacy considerations are designed into products, services,
applications and business practices from the outset. The GSMA is
engaging with stakeholders, such as device and SIM
manufacturers, operating system developers, vendors and ISPs
to establish a principles based privacy framework to help drive
the development of consistent privacy criteria, business practices
and tools to enhance the privacy of users of mobile devices.
A collaborative approach by all players in the mobile value chain
is essential to help drive a culture of privacy across the mobile
ecosystem.
NB The GSMA would be very pleased to organise a thematic
workshop on this subject and to work with WSIS organisers to
achieve an effective balance of speakers.

2. Ensuring that children, who are among the most vulnerable


members of society, are protected from being harmed by online
activity

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The mobile Internet is a compelling and far-reaching educational


and entertainment tool for adults and children alike, but, like any
tool, the Internet can be misused.
Coordinated by the GSMA, the mobile industry is taking a
number of measures
to prevent children, who are among the most vulnerable
members of society, from
being harmed by online activity. Cross-sector collaboration and
engagement with civil society are key to the success of such
measures and the GSMA would like to take the opportunity at
WSIS to share information about its work on initiatives in this
area, which include the Mobile Alliance against Child Sexual
Abuse Content and involvement in the European Framework for
Safer Mobile Use by Younger Teenagers and Children.

3. The role of ICT in making businesses and individuals more


energy efficient, lowering greenhouse gas emissions and cutting
costs.
The mobile industry can make a substantial contribution,
potentially cutting greenhouse gas emissions in other industrial
sectors by five times its own carbon footprint. In fact, research
has shown that by 2020 mobile technologies could lower
emissions in other sectors by the equivalent of taking one of
every three cars off the road. These emission reductions would
originate in sectors such as power (350 megatonnes of carbon
dioxide equivalent), buildings (350 Mt CO2e), transportation and
logistics (270 Mt CO2e), and dematerialisation (160 Mt CO2e).
The GSMA’s Green Manifesto shows how mobile connectivity
can be used to manage transport fleets and other logistics more
efficiently, make utility grids smarter and enable businesses and

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consumers to remotely monitor and cut their energy usage.

4. Adoption of ICT by women in the developing world


In any discussions relating to driving uptake of ICT services by
women, the GSMA would like to share information about its
mWomen Programme, launched in October 2010. This is global
public-private partnership between the mobile industry and the
international development community designed to accelerate
the adoption of mobile services by women in the developing
world. Over three years, the programme aims to halve the
mobile phone gender gap by giving 150 million women increased
access to mobile services, including value-added services related
to women’s health, education, finance and entrepreneurship.
The initiative was formally launched by Rob Conway, CEO of the
GSMA, with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, and
Cherie Blair, Founder, Cherie Blair Foundation for Women.
The GSMA mWomen Programme is supporting the industry’s
efforts to address the key barriers to women’s access to mobile
phones, including total cost of ownership, technical literacy, and
cultural barriers to adoption. With more access to mobile phones
and services, women living on less than US$2 per day will achieve
a greater sense of security, independence, economic opportunity
and connection with the world outside their homes. The
programme is aligned with the UN Millennium Development
Goals, particularly MDG 3 on Gender Equity, and ECOSOC’s
renewed focus on the need for greater investment in women and
girls. The mWomen programme is also backed by 22 leading
global mobile operators serving over 115 developing countries
and companies in the wider mobile ecosystem.

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5. Mobilising the Healthcare Industry


The mobile industry can help make healthcare systems around
the world more efficient and effective. Mobile health solutions
can be used to improve the full healthcare delivery pathway:
• Wellness – devices with embedded mobile connections can
track exercise and diet, helping people live healthier lives.
• Diagnosis – mobile connectivity can be used by health workers
in the field to communicate with remote specialists and make
better-informed decisions.
• Treatment – embedded mobile connections in pill dispensers
can be used to verify automatically whether patients are taking
medication and to deliver reminders to mobile phones.
• Monitoring – mobile networks can be used to relay
information about chronic disease patients’ vital signs back to
clinicians, reducing the need for face-to-face check-ups and
consultations.
McKinsey, the global management consultancy, and the GSMA
predict the healthcare industry could see approximately $175-
200 billion in annual cost savings for managing chronic diseases
in OECD and BRIC countries alone through remote monitoring.

6. How ICT can bring financial services to people living beyond


the reach of the conventional banking industry
Mobile networks and mobile phones can bring financial services
to hundreds of millions of people living beyond the reach of the
conventional banking industry, enabling easy and secure
payment for goods and services. Secure, cost-effective and
convenient, mobile money services can help fuel economic
growth and enrich lives. How can governments and the private
sector work together to ensure such services can be expanded to
the communities which will benefit the most?

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105 MEX GO Ministry of Public The Ministry of Public Security proposes the following n/a It could be interesting to share n/a It would be important to contribute
Security topics as important issues to fight crime from the use of knowledge, but the to share the advances and
electronic and cybernetic technologies: Coordination is not in capacity techniques in the Mexican Federal
of hosting the opening WSIS Police to combat cyber crimes and
- The implementation of safety standards and measures for 2011 crimes against children
prevention of crimes by electronic means
- Cyber education for the diffusion of online protection
mesures for the general public
- Scientific research for the pursuit of electronic crime
- Points to compare conventional warfare and cyberwar

106 MEX GO Ministry of Public Internet Governance Rogelio Carbajal Tejada, Vice n/a n/a n/a
Administration - Ministry, Ministry of Public
Digital Administration
Government Unit

107 MEX GO Ministry of Action Line 5 n/a n/a n/a n/a


Economy Personal data protection (Dialogue and cooperation)

- Education through the dissemination of online protection


measures for the general public.
- Scientific research in the prosecution of electronic crime.
- Points of comparison between conventional warfare and
cyber warfare.

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108 FRA CS Mr Jeam-Louis Le financement n/a n/a n/a n/a
Fullsack, CSDPTT - l’énergie et les TIC dans les pays en voie de développent.
et CESIR - Une prise en compte plus holistique dans nos débats est
à faire.
- Reconsidérer le discours unanimiste, consensuel et
néolibéral de SMSI au sujet de l’enthousiasme sur les TICs.
- Considérer aussi les impacts humains, sociologiques, et
économiques.

109 HUN N/A Hungary - Funds for WSIS Forum and financing mechanisms for n/a n/a n/a n/a
WSIS Forum is an important theme for discussion and
debate.
- Crosscutting issues should be taken up at WSIS Forum, an
example of a crosscutting issue is Disability
- Measuring the achievements of International
Organizations dealing with ICT issues

110 INT IO Association pour - Mobile internet, Mobile for Development is a good n/a n/a n/a n/a
le progrès des theme for
communications WSIS Forum 2011. It is a theme that is crosscutting for
(APC) most
Action Lines, it covers different aspects like Mobile internet
infrastructure, access to knowledge, net neutrality and so
on.
- Policy and regulation issues could be discussed at WSIS
Forum
2011
- Financing is also an important crosscutting theme.
- Challenge and focus to bring the development
community into
the forum and discussions leading to the forum. Getting
governments from developing countries to participate and
enabling a platform for discussion and partnerships for
them is
an important aspect.
- A clear distinction should be made between facilitation,
implementation and coordination of Action lines by
Facilitating Organizations.

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111 INT CS CivicTEC - Panel sizes need to be kept as a reasonable size n/a n/a n/a n/a
- Remote participation should be strengthened using social
media and text messages.
- Reach out to new audiences.
- Keen to collaborate with CoNGO and others to plan
activities for pre event discussions around WSIS
- Efforts should be made to include Local Government’s
participation onsite and in a remote manner.

112 INT CS The Conference of - Significant steps have been taken by the WSIS Secretariat n/a n/a n/a n/a
NGOs in to
Consultative include Civil Society.
Relationship with - ICT in Gender and ICT in Development practice will help
the United facilitate the achievement of MDGs
Nations (CoNGO) - This is the International Year of Youth, it has already
activated
several networks, these networks could be really useful at
the
WSIS Forum 2011.
- CoNGO will work towards arranging a special slot for
2
awareness about WSIS in the General Assembly of CoNGO
in January.

113 INT CS European - Reliability of sources on the internet n/a n/a n/a n/a
Broadcasting - Freedom of expression
Union (EBU) - Digitalization of video archives
114 INT IO International Good idea to have a single theme but looking at the n/a n/a n/a n/a
Chamber of purpose of the
Commerce (ICC) WSIS Action Lines stated in the outcome documents we
should not
duplicate the work of others. Some themes might work for
some
action line not for others. Setting a theme may mean that
we exclude
activities of a particulate Action Line.
115 INT IO International Energy and ICT in Developing Countries , IEC will be happy n/a n/a n/a n/a
Electrotechnical to contribute and facilitate this as a thematic workshop at
Commission (IEC) WSIS Forum 2011.

116 INT IO Internaltional With reference to ensuring a balance in participation n/a n/a n/a n/a
Telecommunicati sometimes financing travel is a big concern, hence
on Union organizers are working towards ensuring remote
participation.
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117 INT IO UNCTAD It may be worth exploring the possibility of having a n/a n/a n/a n/a
particular theme for every WSIS Forum
118 INT IO UNDESA - The issue of Facilitation and Implementation of WSIS n/a n/a n/a n/a
Action lines by Facilitating Agencies should be discussed, in
the WSIS Action Line Facilitation meeting in WSIS Forum
2011.
- Last year Thematic Workshops helped cover good
content and brought additional participation.
- Topics of the workshops/ sessions should be decided
much before the WSIS Forum so that stakeholders can plan
their participation appropriately.

119 INT CS Webforce – Prof. - Est ce que dans le forum en la langue anglaise n’est pas n/a n/a n/a n/a
R. Mellet- un repoussoir pour les 5 autres langues des nations unis?
Brossard - Ma deuxième question concerne le financement. Qui doit-
on financer, par quel moyen ?
- Est-ce que un appel global fait dans des universités pour
recruter des traducteurs volontaires, qui seraient
rémunérés à une hauteur bien moindres que celle des
traducteurs de l’ONU, ne serait pas envisageable ?
3
- petit groupe de coordination, qui assurerait qu’il n’y
aurait pas de doublon

120 INT IO WHO - Support the idea of an overarching theme, lot of n/a n/a n/a n/a
advantages in
this, new things might emerge and advantage of using
Mobile as an awareness tool.
- Building on the participation at WSIS Forum 2010 ensure
the balance of participation at the WSIS Forum 2011.

121 N/A CS Independent/ Civil Launch the idea to have a topic on the ways to ensure n/a n/a n/a n/a
Society effective facilitation work.
- An overarching theme of Mobile Devices and their
application is a timely idea for WSIS Forum but it should
not overshadow other Action Lines that may not include
mobiles.
122 N/A MI Journalist - Efforts to include Media n/a n/a n/a n/a

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123 INT CS eurOlinc FINANCING LDCs IN THE WSIS PROCESS n/a n/a n/a n/a

From the early days of WSIS preparation a sticky issue was raised
and remains unresolved, that of financing the participation of
less developed countries (LDC) in the various meetings generated
by the WSIS process. So far no practical solution has been found.
Internet Governance Forum (IGF) meetings are mostly attended
by delegates from developed countries. LDC attendance is
sparse, and partially composed of members of well funded
transnational lobbies.

However, money is not scarce in the internet milieu. It flows by


millions of $.

Some basic internet concepts

Physically, the internet results from the interconnection of


thousands autonomous networks, owned by a variety of
organizations or individuals.

Functionally, the internet provides a common communication


space (CCS), which cannot be owned by any entity. This virtual
resource is a common good.

The CCS is structured by an architecture defined at the time the


internet was designed, then refined and extended over the years.

Among components of the CCS architecture are identifiers,


allowing to designate entities within the CCS. Two major classes
of identifiers are IP addresses and domain names.

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This document shall elaborate only on domain names.

ICANN cash cow

Historically, domain names come in two varieties: gTLD and


ccTLD. The latter variety is under the responsibility of national
authorities, and shall not be discussed in this document.

gTLDs are approved by ICANN and the Department of Commerce


(DOC) of the US government.

Creating gTLDs involves intricate procedures lasting several


years, and costly for the proposing organization (registry). Once a
gTLD has been created, additional sub-domain names are
created by the registry at the request of registrars, retailers that
receive orders from users. Sub-domain names are rented to
users at a cost, which feeds the food chain from registrars up to
ICANN. This is a basic ingredient of the bottom up model, a
mantra within ICANN followers.

ICANN is a de facto worldwide monopoly imposed by the US


government and thriving on gTLD fees. Like any monopoly ICANN
uses its non competitive advantage in setting gTLD fees so as to
enjoy a comfortable budget (around $60M, as it seems). This
amount could be compared to ITU-T budget.

Being legally a private Californian organization, ICANN decides at


its own discretion the use of the money collected from internet
gTLD users.

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No specific provision guarantees that all users receive a fair share


in return for their contributions. ICANN friends and clientele get
the jackpot.

The top 5 gTLDs are COM, NET, ORG. INFO, and BIZ. Registrations
number:
1. COM 88 298 883
2. NET 13 172 571
3. ORG 8 542 760
4. INFO 6 609 655
5. BIZ 2 129 628

With a surplus of minor gTLDs, registered domain names exceed


120 millions.
ICANN is invited to reveal the booty it collects on these
registrations.

Some users get their domain names from local registrars located
in their own country. Then, they usually pay taxes tacked on the
transaction. On the other hand many users get domain names
online from US registrars, and do not pay taxes in their own
country.

Registrars can expect to be rewarded within reasonable limits for


bookkeeping services they provide to their clients. Furthermore,
they normally operate on a competitive market which should
keep fees from getting abusive.

Registries operate on captive markets allocated by ICANN. The


top 5 gTLD registries are in the USA. It is not clear that the fees
they collect are a legitimate compensation for the services they

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Finally one wonders what services ICANN is providing to justify


the money collected on domain names.

The bottom line is: a private monopoly levying worldwide taxes


on the use of a common good.

A more decent approach

The ICANN monopoly is a rather questionable status in the sense


that collecting taxes without accountability to the taxpayers
creates a permanent conflict between users interests and ICANN
interests.

The field is open to a variety of suggestions for more equitable


schemes. Let us explore one in particular.

An internationally agreed council (IAC) to set gTLD fees, taking


into account such factors as:
- cost of managing gTLD names and sub-domain names
- needs for future extensions
- services provided by ICANN
- financial capacities of LDCs
- financial help pledged to disadvantaged groups or countries
IAC to determine ICANN appropriate budget, based on agreed
projection of activities.

- Money collected by gTLD registries to be transferred to a UN


accredited trust fund.
- Trust fund to transfer approved budget to ICANN and other
beneficiaries.

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One possible option for a trust fund could be ITU-D, due to its
institutional mandate geared to development projects.
Additional resources originating from ITU members, IGO/NGOs,
private sector, could complement those provided by gTLD fees.
Transition

It would be naïve to expect ICANN to willingly shell out a chunk


of what it considers as legitimate revenue. Nevertheless, the UN
community may have a different opinion. By using a mix of
pressure and persuasion it might be possible to bring ICANN to
agree on a tiny return of money, say 1¢ per domain name. It
would be a test of cooperation to initiate further negotiations.

Knowing that ICANN has been for years pretending to be an


international organization, the UN could consider raising ICANN
status to some international level, under conditions including a
financial control of gTLD domain names fees by the IAC
introduced above, or a similar scheme.

In case of adamant opposition from ICANN, other initiatives


could be taken. Governments could collect taxes on gTLD domain
names registered off-shore, or set taxes on ICANN. Legal action
could be introduced against ICANN for illegitimate monopoly.

EUROLINC is a non profit organization founded for promoting


native languages in Internet. It is accredited to WSIS.

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124 ALG CS al awael, n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a


education and
learning
125 AUL MI James Cook n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
University
126 AZE GO Ministry of n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
Communications
and IT
127 BGD CS Bangladesh ICT n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
Journalist Forum

128 BGD BE Bangladesh n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a


Institute of ICT in
Development
(BIID)
129 CAN GO Industry Canada n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
130 CMR CS ANTRPEBE n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
131 CMR CS APD SERVICE n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
132 CMR CS Association n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
COSDEPIJ
133 CPR GO Zhejiang Sci-Tech n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
University
134 DRC CS AJPED n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
135 DRC CS Mouvement n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
Relais pour les
Nations Unies
136 FRA CS Institut Telecom n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a

137 FRA IO OECD n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a


138 FRA CS UNION DE TERRE n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
PACIFIQUE
MONDE,dite
UTPM
139 GER CS GE, GE-Satcom n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
140 GHA IO Africa Change n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
International
141 GHA CS NETWORK FOR n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
PROMOTION OF
AGRICULTURE AND
ENVIRONMENTAL
STUDIES
142 IND MI KIIT University n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
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143 IND CS Punjabi University n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a

144 IND MI UTI Asset n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a


Management
Company Ltd
145 INT BE UNESCO n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
146 IRA GO MFA n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
147 ITA IO FAO-UN, ROME n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
148 IVC CS CIDEF n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
149 MAR GO Ministry of n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
Information and
Communication
Technology
150 MON GO communications n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
regulatory
commission
151 NIR CS A.C.O.P.O n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
CONCEPTS
152 NIR CS Community n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
Environment
Development
Network
153 PAK MI Bahria University n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a

154 PRC CS ONG ACEPMD- n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a


CONGO
155 ROM GO valahia university n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
of targoviste

156 SAF CS Association for n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a


Progressive
Communications
157 SPA CS Fundación n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
Cibervoluntarios
(Cybervolunteers
Foundation)
158 TUR MI Firat University n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
159 UGA MI Uganda Linux n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
User Group
160 UGA IO Uganda Scout n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
Asociation
161 UK GO Department for n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
Business,
Innovation and
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