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(WSIS-II/PC-3/DOC/6-E)

“New” proposals to be added to the text of the Operational Part

We call upon parliaments to establish the enabling environments for national e-

strategies by adopting the necessary legal framework, by approving the budgets

required to finance national e-strategies and by effectively overseeing the

implementation by government of such strategies.

Encouraging good information management policies in public and private sectors

to ensure on-going reliability and accessibility of public information; encouraging

creation of technical solutions for technological obsolescence to ensure the

survival and transmission of informational contents;

Digitizing our cultural treasures for the benefit of future generations;

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Establishing mechanisms that help local SMEs to customize products and

applications to their particular market and cultural context, and providing support

through capacity-building;

Ensuring ICT enterprises commit to environment-friendly production processes

and to product recycling and proper disposal of ICT waste products, to minimise

negative impacts of the use and manufacture of ICTs on people and the

Building ICT networks and developing services that are available anytime,

anywhere, by anything and anyone;

Establishing programmes for academia, communities, industry, and governments

for ongoing learning of good practices in the design and implementation of ICTs;

Providing increased attention and support to human resource development and

education for the information society with emphasis on the youth and women in

order to increase contribution to the broader knowledge economy;

Incorporating policies and self-regulatory, co-regulatory or other effective

frameworks to protect children and young people from abuse and exploitation

through ICTs into national plans of action and e-strategies.

We also applaud research initiatives that contribute to the accomplishment of the

WSIS goals. Research institutions should be promoted and supported at all levels,

and recognized as a relevant stakeholder.

We propose to establish a World Internet Day. This Day could help to raise

awareness, on an annual basis, of the importance of this global facility, and more

broadly on the issues dealt with in the Summit, especially the possibilities that the

use of ICT can bring for societies and economies, as well as of ways to bridge the

digital divide.