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Digital
Opportunity Forum 2006
 The conference
aims to bring together practitioners, researchers and
experts from academies and governments to commemorate the
inauguration of the official Korea IT Learning program (KOIL)
alumni network as "Digital Opportunity Forum" and to discuss
the themes of International Cooperation in ICT development
and the Digital Opportunity Index (DOI). The conference
invitation letter outlines the conference and presents
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Digital Transformations in the
Information Society conference (2006)
 The
ITU Strategy
and Policy Unit (SPU)
in collaboration with
London
Business School (LBS)
hold in Geneva in June 2006 a joint conference on the
measurement of ICTs and the macro-, micro- and meso-impact
of ICTs in the Information Society. This event brought
answers to some of the more pressing issues raised by
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) exploring
the impact of ICTs in industry, firms, growth and
productivity: what is the real meaning of the digital
divide? Can investment in ICTs help to reduce the
productivity gap? Are countries really at a disadvantage
through falling behind in take-up of ICTs? |
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Multi-Stake holder
Partnerships for
Bridging the Digital Divide
(2005)
The objective of the WSIS Thematic Meeting
(Seoul, Korea, June 2005) was to provide a forum for the presentation of
successful multi-stakeholder partnerships for
bridging the digital divide and stimulating debate
on the institutional, economic, political and social
conditions that contribute to
or impede their
success. The meeting also further encouraged the
development of the composite Digital Opportunity Index
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Building Digital Bridges (2004)
 ITU convened in Busan,
Korea in September 2004 a small group of policy makers,
telecommunication providers, regulators, academics,
statisticians and various other experts, serving in an
individual capacity, who can discuss the best ways to
measure the digital divide through ICT data collection and
compilation into ICT indices and implement new communication
technologies with the goal of expanding access to ICTs.
Through these discussions, the workshop has helped build a
foundation of tools that can be used to promote ICT access
throughout the world, first by identifying areas of acute
need, and then by applying technological solutions to reach
unserved users throughout the world. |
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Outcomes |
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Digital Opportunity
Index
The Digital
Opportunity Index is a composite index has been created from
a set of eleven internationally-agreed core ICT indicators
(established by the Partnership on Measurement of the
Information Society).
It measures access to
telecommunications and digital opportunity in 180 economies
worldwide and considers the policy implications for the
further evolution of the Information Society, and is one of
the two indices endorsed in the WSIS Tunis Agenda. |
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World Information
Society Report 2006
“The World Information
Society Report” is the first edition in a series of reports
that will monitor the development of the Information Society
worldwide. In particular, this new series will chart
progress towards the implementation of the outcomes of the
World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) and WSIS
targets. This report has been prepared in response to the
World Summit on the Information Society, held in Geneva in
2003 and Tunis in 2005.
Executive Summary |
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Building Digital Bridges
Report (September 2005)
The background papers
and case studies included in the Building Digital Bridges
report shed light on different strategies to bridge the
digital divide. Whether through the collection and analysis
of ICT data, the use of partnership mechanisms or the
deployment of emerging technologies, governments in
developed and developing countries have made inroads in
closing the gap between the have and have-nots, but much
still remains to be done. As stated in the WSIS Declaration
of Principles, creating an inclusive information society can
only be the result of digital solidarity including all
stakeholders.
Executive Summary |
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