World Telecommunication/ICT Development Report 2010
Monitoring the WSIS targets
A mid-term review
The 9th edition of the ITU World Telecommunication/ICT Development Report (WTDR 2010) focuses on Monitoring the WSIS Targets. The year 2010 marks the midpoint between the 2005 Tunis phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) and 2015, the deadline for achieving the ten targets that governments agreed upon at the WSIS. The Report is a mid-term review, and provides policy makers with a comprehensive assessment of what has been achieved so far, and what remains to be done.
The Report has been prepared specifically for the
WSIS Forum 2010 and the ITU World Telecommunication Development Conference (WTDC-10), both held in May 2010.
The Report reviews the 10 targets, proposes concrete indicators to monitor them and makes recommendations on policies and measures to help achieve them:
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To connect villages with ICTs and establish community access points
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To connect universities, colleges, secondary schools, and primary schools with ICTs
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To connect scientific and research centers with ICTs
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To connect public libraries, cultural centers, museums, post offices, and archives with ICTs
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To connect health centers and hospitals with ICTs
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To connect all local and central Government departments and establish web sites and e-mail addresses
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To adapt all primary and secondary school curricula to meet the challenges of the information society, taking into account national circumstances
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To ensure that all of the world’s population has access to television and radio services
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To 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
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To ensure that more than half the world’s inhabitants have access to ICTs within their reach
The Report reflects a joint effort among several international organisations, led by ITU and including contributions from UNESCO, WHO and UNDESA, as well as from representatives of civil society.
Based on the indicators proposed by the report, the
Partnership on Measuring ICT for Development launched the Task Group on Measuring the WSIS targets, which is expected to further enhance and refine the indicators and develop a monitoring framework that will help countries in tracking the WSIS targets.
Find out more about this TG.
Download the press release
Download the executive summary (pdf format): Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Spanish, Russian
Download the full report (pdf format)
Download the separate parts of the report (pdf format): Cover/Foreword & Preface/Acknowledgements/ToC/Abbreviations/Executive Summary, Introduction, Target 1, Target 2, Target 3, Target 4, Target 5, Target 6, Target 7, Target 8, Target 9, Target 10/Revision 1, Conclusion, Annex table 1/List of countries that responded to the ITU questionnaire on WSIS targets
