WSIS
Action Lines
In
order to assist you in selecting the WSIS action lines, the following keywords
are provided to show some of the themes covered under each of the WSIS action
lines. The full text of each action line is available at www.itu.int/wsis/PoA.
1)
The role of governments and all stakeholders in the promotion of ICTs for development
Cooperation among stakeholders Millennium Declaration
Mainstreaming ICTs Multi Stakeholder Partnership (MSP) Multi-stakeholder
portals for indigenous peoples National e-strategies Public/Private
Partnerships (PPP).
2) Information and communication infrastructure: an essential foundation for an inclusive information society
Access Accessibility Affordability
Assistive technologies Broadband network infrastructure
Digital inclusion Enabling and competitive environment
ICT backbone ICT connectivity ICT equipment
ICT services Infrastructure Internet exchange points
Investment Satellite Traditional media
Remote and marginalized areas Ubiquitous computing/communications
Universal access/service Wireless.
3) Access to information and knowledge
Access to public official information Access to scientific knowledge
Digital public libraries and archives ICTs for all Multi-purpose
community public access points Open source, proprietary and free software
Public access to information Public domain information.
4) Capacity building
Basic literacy Distance learning Education/training
E-literacy Gender Combating illiteracy
Life-long learning Research and development (R&D)
Self-learning Teacher training Training
ICT professionals Volunteering Youth
5) Building confidence and security in the use of ICTs
Authentication Building confidence and security Consumer
protection Countering misuse of ICTs Countering
spam Cyber-crime, Cyber-security Data protection
Information security and network security Network integrity
Online transaction security Privacy
Real-time incident-handling and response Secure and reliable applications.
6) Enabling environment
Consumer protection Dispute settlement Domain name
management E-commerce E-government strategy
Entrepreneurship ICT forums Intellectual
property Internet governance Legal,
regulatory and policy environment Privacy
Radio frequency spectrum Regional root servers
Secure storage and archival Small and medium sized enterprises
(SMEs) Standardization
7) ICT applications: benefits in all aspects of life
Disaster recovery E-applications E-agriculture
E-business E-commerce E-employment
E-environment E-government E-health
E-publishing E-science ICT waste disposal
Sustainable production and consumption Teleworking
Transparency.
8) Cultural diversity and identity, linguistic diversity and local content
Cultural diversity Cultural exchange and information
Cultural heritage Cultural industry Cultural policy
Digital archive Disadvantaged and vulnerable groups
Indigenous peoples Internationalized domain names
Language-related ICT tools Linguistic diversity
Local languages Traditional knowledge.
9) Media
Combatting illegal and harmful content in the media Diversity of media
ownership Gender portrayal in the media Media independence
and pluralism Reducing international imbalances
Role of media in the Information Society Traditional media
Training of media professionals .
10) Ethical dimensions the Information Society
Common good Ethics Human rights Preventing abusive uses
of ICTs Values.
11) International and regional cooperation
Financing of ICT networks and services Infrastructure development projects
International mechanisms Progress evaluation Regional
action plan UN global compact.
12) Achieving the WSIS targets (Plan of Action, Section B)
To connect villages with ICTs and establish community access points;
To connect universities, colleges, secondary schools and primary schools with
ICTs; To connect scientific and research centres with ICTs;
To connect public libraries, cultural centres, museums, post offices and archives
with ICTs; To connect health centres and hospitals with ICTs;
To connect all local and central government departments and establish websites
and email addresses; To adapt all primary and secondary school curricula
to meet the challenges of the Information Society, taking into account national
circumstances To ensure that all of the world's population have access
to television and radio services; To encourage the development of content
and to put in place technical conditions in order to facilitate the presence
and use of all world languages on the Internet; To ensure that more
than half the worlds inhabitants have access to ICTs within their reach.
13)
Digital solidarity agenda (Plan of Action, Section D)
Debt burden Digital divide Digital solidarity fund Financing
mechanisms Monterrey Consensus National e-strategies Poverty
reduction strategies Technology transfer
14) Follow-up and evaluation (Plan of Action, Section E)
Benchmarking Community connectivity indicators Gender-specific indicators
ICT Development Index Information Society
indicators International performance evaluation Monitoring the digital
divide Statistics Success stories
15) Towards WSIS Phase
2 (Tunis) (Plan of Action, Section F)
Elaboration of final appropriate documents Partnerships among stakeholders
Preparatory process Stocktaking Task Force on Financial Mechanisms
Working Group on Internet Governance