ICT for Development
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"We also resolve:
- To ensure that the benefits of new technologies, especially information and communication technologies, in conformity with recommendations contained in the ECOSOC 2000 Ministerial Declaration, are available to all (...)."
Extract from the United Nations Millennium Summit Declaration (September 2000).
Key statistics
- Industrialised countries, with 19 % of the world's population, account for 71 % of global trade in goods and services, 58 % of foreign direct investment and 91 % of all Internet users.
Key links
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UNDP Information and Communication Technology priority activity website
UNDP considers ICT as an indispensable tool in the fight against poverty and seeks through its Country Offices to stimulate the enabling environment, catalyse the applications, and innovate projects on the ground necessary to help bridge the information gap and bring everyone in the global economy. -
UNDP/Cisco networking academies
The Cisco Networking Academy Program is a partnership between Cisco Systems, education, business, government, and community organisations around the world. The Networking Academy curriculum centres on teaching students to design, build, and maintain computer networks. The Program prepares students for the 21st Century workplace, while serving as a valuable model for e-learning. - Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme (APDIP)
This UNDP programme provides capacity building on IT and policy issues, supports and backstops IT initiatives, and assists in the design and implementation of IT systems in 42 countries in the region -
UNESCO Informatics and "Infostructure" activity website
UNESCO concentrates on the development of a sound "Infostructure" (policies, networking and applications) for its Member States and helps developing countries set up their own informatics systems and to secure access to global information flows through information highways.