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...World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) finished its work with agreement on what substantive issues need to be negotiated for the output of the Tunis phase of WSIS. PrepCom-2 also agreed on the financial mechanisms - a critical component of the Tunis output to support ICT development and the WSIS goals outlined in the Plan of Action adopted by 175 countries at Geneva Phase of the Summit.
Mr. Yoshio Utsumi, Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union, reminded the more than 1,700 delegates in attendance that they must set "ambitious but achievable goals". He was pleased to report at the closing session "that with your endorsement of the necessary financial mechanisms and support for a Digital Solidarity Fund, we have made significant progress in our shared objective of connecting all communities to the Information Society by 2015".
Financing Mechanisms Outlined
The work of PrepCom-2 focused much of its efforts on the issue of Financial Mechanisms based on a thorough review of the adequacy of existing financial mechanisms to meet the challenges of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for development carried out by a task force established by the UN Secretary-General.
The PrepCom agreed that, although there are many different funding mechanisms for ICTs development there remains a mismatch between needs and available funding. It acknowledged the growing importance of private sector investment in infrastructure and outlined a number of areas where the current approaches to ICT development have devoted insufficient attention. PrepCom proposed that financial resources be focused on these areas:
- ICT capacity-building programmes, materials, tools,...
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