PREPCOM 2 - EXAMPLES OF POSSIBLE CONCRETE AND COMPREHENSIVE ACTIONS

  1. The following could serve as benchmarks for actions to be taken:
    • All villages of the planet to be equipped with a telecentre by 2010;
    • All villages to be connected by 2010, with a community access points by 2015;
    • All universities be connected by 2005 and all secondary schools by 2010 and all primary schools by 2015;
    • All hospitals to be connected by 2005 and health centres by 2010;
    • 90% of the world's population to be within wireless coverage by 2010 and 100% by 2015;
    • All central governments' departments to have a website and email address by 2005 and all local governments departments by 2010.
  2. Developing national e-strategies for all countries within three years, including the necessary human capacity building.
  3. Launching of a "Global Digital Compact" as a new pattern for partnership and interaction between governments and non-governmental actors, based on division of labour and specialised responsibilities, as well as on identified specific and common interests, will work together to achieve IT development goals (e.g. governments create stimulating regulatory environment and fiscal incentives, business bring in technology and made available simple applications, non-governmental organisations undertake awareness campaigns and work at community level etc.) (a model that will start from the institutional relationships already existing in ITU, with ITU as co-ordinator).
  4. Launching and gradually developing an aggregate ICT Development (Digital Opportunity) Index and publish it annually or every two years in a ICT Development Report, where ranking of countries will be accompanied by analytical work on policies and their implementation. (ITU is to catalyse and combine in a coherent structure the existing experiences in various organisations, universities, think-tanks etc.)
  5. Elaborating and launching during the Geneva phase of the Summit a "Handbook on good practices and success stories", as a compilation of contributions from all stakeholders, in a concise and convincing format, which is to be re-issued periodically and turned into a permanent experience-sharing exercise.
  6. Equipping and training content workers in the LDCs, such as archivists, librarians, scientists, teachers and journalists in making use of the expertise and operational capacity of the relevant international professional organisations.
  7. Revising the curricula of the primary and secondary schools in all countries, within three years, in order to meet the challenges of the information society.
  8. Create the necessary technical (software and hardware) conditions, which would permit all languages in the world to be present and used on the Internet.