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ITU recognizes contributions to Information Society
Certificates awarded for government and private sector support to World
Summit on
the Information Society Forum
Geneva, 1 February 2013 – ITU Secretary-General Hamadoun I.
Touré today presented Certificates of
Recognition to the Administrations of Kuwait, Oman, Poland, Tanzania, Mexico
and United Arab Emirates as well as to ITU Sector Members Intel and
Hewlett-Packard for their financial contributions to the WSIS Fund in Trust.
Additionally, Egypt was recognized for its commitment towards strengthening the
implementation of WSIS-related activities, in particular the WSIS+10 review in
2014.
Expressing his thanks for the generous contributions, Dr Touré said, “In the
ten years since the first Summit in Geneva, we have witnessed a huge leap
forward in the way the world communicates. We have also seen that the ICT sector
has not only remained healthy during the recent financial crisis but has
sustained the global economy through a difficult period. It is therefore of
crucial importance that we continue to push forward with the implementation of
the WSIS goals to ensure that people everywhere derive the full benefits from
information and communication technologies.”
The World Summit on the
Information Society (WSIS), held in two phases in 2003 and 2005, aimed at
harnessing the potential of information and communication technology (ICT) to
meet the goals of sustainable development and to provide connectivity to very
citizen on earth. Several ‘Action Lines’ were set out to meet these objectives
and, over the past decade, considerable progress has been made in their
implementation. The follow-up of the implementation is an ongoing
multi-stakeholder process that includes partner UN agencies and is reviewed
annually during the WSIS Forum which meets mid-May in Geneva. The WSIS Fund in
Trust facilitates the financing of this process.
Looking beyond 2015, governments, private sector, civil society and
international organizations take stock, analyse and plan the way forward taking
into account the increasingly indispensable role of ICTs in the area of health,
education, climate change, environmental conservation and sustainable
development.
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Chief, Media Relations and Public Information
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