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Costa Rica President advocates Child Online Protection (COP)
President Laura Chinchilla’s visit to ITU
highlights role as COP Patron
Geneva, 30 May 2012 – The President of Costa Rica Laura
Chinchilla Miranda today reaffirmed her role as patron of ITU’s Child Online
Protection initiative while visiting ITU headquarters in Geneva.
President Chinchilla said she would call upon Heads of State and Government
around the world to strengthen the COP Framework and create national commissions
focused on child online safety.
ITU Secretary-General Hamadoun Touré thanked President Chinchilla for her
sustained efforts in taking up the COP agenda with world leaders. He also
commended Costa Rica for the pro-active policies that have been put in place to
encourage women and girls to consider careers in the growing field of
information and communication technologies (ICT). Dr Touré encouraged Costa Rica
to mark International Girls in ICT Day on the fourth Thursday of every April and
to organize events next year. He said that ITU would welcome the opportunity to
jointly organize a global conference on Youth and ICTs in Costa Rica next year
which would particularly focus on ICT solutions addressing the youth
unemployment crisis and strengthening our global efforts to ensure child online
protection.
President Chinchilla, a leading digital advocate, has also actively supported
ITU’s Green ICT agenda that promotes environmental sustainability through smart
technologies while focusing on greening the ICT sector. ITU Secretary-General
Hamadoun Touré and President Chinchilla agreed on further promoting and
developing the key role that the Green ICT agenda can contribute to a successful
outcome of the forthcoming Rio+20 Conference. In this regard, they discussed the
necessity to include clear references to ICTs and broadband as enablers of
sustainable development and full digital inclusion in the fast-changing
information society.
For more information, please contact:
Sanjay Acharya
Chief, Media Relations and Public Information, ITU
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