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THE WSIS TARGETS

The ten WSIS Targets

  Target 1:  Connect villages and establish community access points
 
Good prospects for connecting villages.
Poor prospects for putting community access points in each village.
Target 2: Connect universities, colleges, secondary schools and primary schools
Very good prospects for connecting all universities, colleges and secondary schools.
Good
prospects for primary schools.
Target 3: Connect scientific and research institutions
Excellent prospects for this target to be fully achieved.
Target 4: Connect all public libraries, archives, museums, cultural centres and post offices
Excellent prospects for connecting libraries, museums and archives.
Very good prospects for post offices and cultural centres.
Target 5: Connect health centres and hospitals
Excellent prospects for connecting hospitals.
Very good prospects for health centres.
Target 6: Connect all local and central government departments and establish websites and e-mail addresses for them
Excellent prospects for connecting central government departments.
Very good prospects for local governments.
Target 7: Adapt all primary and secondary school curricula to meet the challenges of the information society, taking into account national circumstances
Very good prospects for connecting all universities, colleges and secondary schools.
Good
prospects for primary schools.
Target 8: Ensure that the entire world population has access to television and radio services
Excellent prospects for radio coverage.
Very good prospects for television.
Target 9: Encourage the development of content and put in place technical conditions in order to facilitate the presence and use of all world languages on the Internet
Very good prospects for achieving technical conditions for all languages to be available.
Poor prospects for all languages to be used.
Target 10: Ensure that more than half the world’s inhabitants have personal use of ICT
Excellent prospects for achieving 50 per cent household coverage.
Very good prospects for achieving 50 per cent personal ownership of ICT devices.

Source: Based on ITU World Telecommunication Development Report (2003): Access Indicators for the Information Society, and World Bank (2005) Tracking ICTs: World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Targets.

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