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How to Develop Appropriate Strategies for Linkages Between ICT and Sustainable Development goals ?

African Civil Society on the Information Society (ACSIS)

Quelles stratégies appropriées pour les liens entre les TIC et les objectifs de developpement durable ?

This workshop will help to identify linkages between WSIS outcome documents and SDGs and develop a concrete action plan in terms of training and capacity building of African Communities (ICT and sustainable development, Internet governance, cyber security, e-waste management, etc.) development of the digital economy in general in line with the SDGs.

Cet atelier va aider à identifier les liens en les documents du SMSI adopté en décembre 2015 à New York et les Objectifs du Développement durable en termes de développement de capacités, de formation des communautés africaines et de développement de l'Economie Numérique en général en relation avec les ODD.

Moderator

Dr. Cisse Kane, President ACSIS

Speakers / panellists
  • Hon. Dr. Tahani Abdalla Attia, Minister of science and communications, Sudan
  • Hon. Dr. Yaya Abdoul Kane, Minister of Posts and Telecommunications, Senegal
  • Hon. M. Sheriff Bojang , Minister of Information and Communication Infrastructure, Gambia
  • S.E.M Moustapha Mamy Diaby, Ministère des Postes,Télécommunications et de l’Economie Numérique, Guinea
  • Hon. Prof Hlengiwe Buhle Mkhize, Deputy Minister of Telecommunications and Postal Services, South Africa
  • Hon. M. Houlin Zhao, Secretary-General International Telecommunications Union
  • HE. Marianne Odette Bibalou Bounda, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Gabon to the UN
  • HE Dr. Francois Xavier Ngarambe, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Rwanda to the UN
  • M. Jovan Kubalja, Chairman Diplo Foundation
  • M. Peter Major, Chairman of CSTD
  • Mrs. Anriette Estherhuysen, Executive Director APC
  • Mrs. Constance Bommelaer, Senior Director, Global Policy Partnerships ISOC
  • M. Mactar Seck UNECA, Adidis Ababa
  • M. Remmy Nweke, Digital Sense, ACSIS
Link to WSIS Action Lines
  • C1. The role of public governance authorities and all stakeholders in the promotion of ICTs for development
  • C2. Information and communication infrastructure
  • C3. Access to information and knowledge
  • C4. Capacity building
  • C5. Building confidence and security in the use of ICTs
  • C6. Enabling environment
  • C7. ICT Applications: E-government
  • C7. ICT Applications: E-business
  • C7. ICT Applications: E-learning
  • C7. ICT Applications: E-health
  • C7. ICT Applications: E-employment
  • C7. ICT Applications: E-environment
  • C7. ICT Applications: E-agriculture
  • C7. ICT Applications: E-science
  • C8. Cultural diversity and identity, linguistic diversity and local content
  • C9. Media
  • C10. Ethical dimensions of the Information Society
  • C11. International and regional cooperation

The session is dedicated to identifying these links

Link to the Sustainable Development Process
  • Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere
  • Goal 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
  • Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all
  • Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
  • Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
  • Goal 6: Ensure access to water and sanitation for all
  • Goal 7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
  • Goal 8: Promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth, employment and decent work for all
  • Goal 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
  • Goal 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries
  • Goal 11: Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
  • Goal 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
  • Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
  • Goal 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources
  • Goal 15: Sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, halt and reverse land degradation, halt biodiversity loss
  • Goal 16: Promote just, peaceful and inclusive societies
  • Goal 17: Revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development

The session is dedicated to identifying these links

Session 171
  • Thursday, 11:00 – 13:00
  • Room L, ITU Montbrillant
  • Thematic Workshop
WSIS Forum 2016 | WSIS Action Lines: Supporting the Implementation of SDGs
2–6 May 2016, International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Place des Nations, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland
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