The Golden Book, WSIS Stocktaking, ICT Success Stories

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The Golden Book, WSIS Stocktaking, ICT
Success Stories

• International Telecommunication Union

Moderators/Facilitators Consultation Meeting
UNOG, Geneva, 24 February 2006
Presentation prepared for the official launch of
the Golden Book.For more information, please
send an e-mail to wsis-stocktaking_at_itu.int
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The Golden Book Origins

• Swiss proposal during PrepCom-2 for a
  stakeholder commitments paper, later endorsed
  by Intergovernmental Bureau of PrepCom.
• Questionnaire launched in October 2005
• Creation of the Golden Book database
• Invitation to all WSIS Stakeholders to submit
  commitments and new initiatives announced during
  the Tunis Phase of WSIS

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The Golden Book Origins

• Database open for entries from 20 October to 31
  January 2006
• By 1 February, 378 commitments registered
• 24 February 2006 official launch
• The Golden Book Report
• The Golden Book CD Rom

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378 Commitments
Breakdown of activities by entity
Scope of activities
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378 Commitments
Breakdown by type of activity
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378 Commitments
Timescale of activities
Breakdown by origin
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378 commitments
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3.2 billion
Amount of financial commitments by stakeholder
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378 commitments
gt
3.2 billion
Breakdown by anticipated expenditure
378 commitments
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378 commitments
gt
3.2 billion
Scale of financial commitments by different
stakeholders
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Selected large commitments Governments

• China 'Cun Cun Tong' Project
• Villages Connected The overall goal of this
  project is the realization of universal access to
  telephone service in the nearly 70,000 villages
  having no telephone coverage.
• Egypt The Million Book Project
• Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA) and its partners are
  working together to demonstrate the projects
  feasibility by digitizing one million books
  within three years and publishing them as a
  searchable collection on the internet. All
  project partners are providing content to ensure
  that the collection is extensive, diverse and
  multilingual.
• Pan African E-Network Project
• The network should connect all 53 countries of
  the African Union to provide effective
  communication and connectivity among these
  countries.

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Selected commitmentsIntl and regional
organisations

• European Union GEANT2
• The European Union supports a broader policy to
  ensure the global reach of research and education
  networks. It includes also the launching of
  concrete initiatives to support developing
  regions in the world, in particular the
  Mediterranean rim, Latin America and Asia via the
  projects EUMEDconnect, ALICE and TEIN2,
  respectively.
• ITU Connect the World
• Multi-stakeholder partnership launched in 2005 to
  work towards connecting the estimated 800000
  villages worldwide still without ICTs.
• World Bank Africa Regional Initiative
• Regional Communications Infrastructure Program in
  East and Southern Africa is an investment and
  Technical Assistance (TA) project in support of
  the liberalization of telecommunication markets
  in Eastern and Southern African countries and the
  development of a modern fiber-optic backbone to
  connect these countries to each other and the
  rest of the world.

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Selected commitments Business Sector Entities

• INTEL Corporation Intel Teach to the Future
• Intel Corporation will train an additional 10
  million teachers in developing nations over the
  next five years in the use of technology to
  enhance learning. Intel also will donate 100,000
  PCs to classrooms in developing nations in order
  to improve learning skills.
• Microsoft Telecentre.org
• Canadas IDRC, Microsoft Corp and the Swiss SDC
  announced the launch of telecentre.org, a
  collaborative initiative that will strengthen the
  capacity of tens of thousands of community-based
  telecentres around the world.
• Sentech Digital Terrestrial Television
  Broadcasting in South Africa
• Digitisation of the Television Broadcasting
  infrastructure will enable systems to seamlessly
  carry broadcasting, data and voice content
  efficiently. Digital television broadcasting and,
  more specifically, digital terrestrial
  broadcasting, opens up many possibilities for
  providing universal access on a very broad
  basis.

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Selected commitments Civil Society Entities

• Village Phone Replication ManualGrameen
  Foundation USA
• GFUSA is working to spread the successful Village
  Phone model throughout the developing world with
  the release of its Village Phone Replication
  Manual. The manual, which draws from the
  experiences of Village Phone in both Bangladesh
  and Uganda, provides a blueprint for bringing
  affordable, accessible telecommunications service
  to poor, rural areas through microfinance.
• New Arabic Development Portal Development
  Gateway Foundation
• Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA) and the Development
  Gateway Foundation will unveil plans for a new
  Arabic language web portal on development. The
  portal aims to address the existing shortage of
  development information for the Arab World.
• 'One Dollar for Development' FORMIT Foundation
• The ODFD initiative aims at making available at
  no cost e-Government applications owned by
  developed countries to developing countries by
  encouraging North-South and South-South
  cooperation as an effective contribution to
  development and as a means to share and transfer
  good practices and technologies.

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WSIS Stocktaking

• Ongoing process
• Collaborative database
• Online questionnaire
• More than 2600 projects registered
• Basis for future evaluation
• Report on Stocktaking published at Tunis Summit

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WSIS Stocktaking Future

• Tunis Agenda, paragraph 120
• The sharing of information related to the
  implementation of WSIS outcomes is an important
  element of evaluation. We note with appreciation
  the report on the Stocktaking of WSIS-related
  activities, which will serve as one of the
  valuable tools for assisting with the follow-up,
  beyond the conclusion of the Tunis Phase of the
  Summit, as well as the Golden Book of
  initiatives launched during the Tunis phase.
  We encourage all WSIS stakeholders to continue to
  contribute information on their activities to the
  public WSIS stocktaking database, maintained by
  ITU. In this regard, we invite all countries to
  gather information at the national level with the
  involvement of all stakeholders, to contribute to
  the stocktaking.

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WSIS Stocktaking Future

• Tracking progress made in building the
  Information Society
• Maintaining and improving the Internet-based
  Stocktaking Database
• Encouraging all WSIS stakeholders to submit and
  update descriptions of projects
• Establishing the necessary links to
  moderators/facilitators to share and exchange
  information efficiently

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WSIS Stocktaking Future

• Raising awareness of the content of the database
  among all WSIS stakeholders through greater
  information and publicity
• Developing analytical tools and materials
  emphasizing countries experiences and best
  practices
• Publication of future editions of the Stocktaking
  Report to present the efforts of all stakeholders
  in WSIS implementation

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ICT Success Stories
Official LaunchMarch 2006

• Interactive portal highlighting best practices
  in the ICT sector
• Requested in the Plan of Action (para 28e)
• Web Portal components
• - Database with more then 600 success stories
• - Resources on ICT for development
• Criteria for project selection
• - Focus on developing countries,
  multi-stakeholder partnerships, successful
  outcome, innovative approach, cross-sectoral-secto
  r, targeting vulnerable groups, etc

www.itu.int/ict_stories
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