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measures/if possible, by 2008], aimed at achieving the
development goals of the Millennium Declaration;
b.
designing and implementing enabling policies and a regulatory
environment that is supportive of ICT entrepreneurship and that
promotes investment and the mobilisation of domestic
resources;
c.
building the ICT capacities of people and improving
educational programmes to allow greater access to ICTs;
d.
promoting community volunteerism in the ICT4D sector;
e.
promoting public policies aimed at making/providing/ensuring
affordable accessibility to hardware as well as software to
populations living in developing regions, in particular in rural
areas;
f.
improving access to the world's health knowledge, in areas as
diverse as global cooperation in emergency response, to
reaching health professionals and individual citizens to improve
healthcare and quality of life;
g.
establishing monitoring and early-warning systems, using ICTs,
to forecast and monitor the impact of natural and man-made
disasters.
Indicators
7.
The Geneva Plan of Action identifies international performance
evaluation and benchmarking, taking into account different
national circumstances, as an important aspect of the follow-up
and evaluation. We applaud the initiatives taken in this area,
including by those key stakeholders involved in the statistical
measurement of ICTs who have joined forces to create a global
Partnership on "Measuring ICT for Development". We
encourage national statistical offices to assist these efforts by
providing data and technical support.
OS/G
Partnerships
8.
We recognize that our goals can be accomplished through the
involvement and cooperation of all Information Society
stakeholders. We encourage continuing co-operation between
and among stakeholders to ensure effective implementation of
the Geneva and Tunis decisions, for instance through the
promotion of Multi-stakeholder partnerships including Public
Private Partnerships (PPPs), in a joint effort and dialogue with
less developed countries, donors and actors in the ICT sector.
G/OS
Stocktaking
9.
We commit ourselves to evaluate and follow-up progress in
bridging the digital divide, taking into account different levels
of development, so as to reach internationally agreed
development goals, including those contained in the
Millennium Declaration, and to assess the effectiveness of
investment and international cooperation efforts in building the
Information Society. We encourage all WSIS stakeholders to
continue to contribute new and updated information on their
activities to the WSIS stocktaking database, which was
launched in October 2004 by the WSIS-ES and will be
maintained by ITU, so that it becomes a valuable tool, beyond
the conclusion of the Tunis Phase of the Summit.
G/OS
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