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Statement from Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations
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Acknowledgements
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Foreword by Yoshio Utsumi, Secretary-General of the
International Telecommunication Union and Secretary-General
of the World Summit on the Information Society
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Statement from H.E. Samuel Schmid,
President of the Swiss Confederation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10
Statement from Dr Ahmed Nazif,
Prime Minister of The Arab Republic of Egypt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11
Statement from H.E. P.J. Patterson, Prime Minister of Jamaica . . . . . . . . . . .12
Statement from Hilary Benn, Secretary of State for
International Development, UK Government, UK Presidency of the EU . . . .13
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WSIS: S
UMMIT OF
S
OLUTIONS
Beyond WSIS: building a global Information Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16
Yoshio Utsumi, Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication
Union, Secretary-General of the World Summit on the Information Society
WSIS and the growth of the Information Society:
multi-stakeholder process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18
Janis Karklins, permanent representative of Latvia to United Nations office
at Geneva and President of the WSIS Preparatory Commitee, Tunis phase
On Internet governance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20
Nitin Desai, Special Adviser to the United Nations Secretary-General on WSIS
and Chairman of the Working Group on Internet Governence
II
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IGITAL
O
PPORTUNITIES
Building knowledge societies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Finland: promoting Information Society development in South Africa . .27
Mari Kiviniemi, Minister for Foreign Trade and Development, Finland
Fostering digital inclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31
Appui au Désenclavement Numérique
Enabling a national ICT transformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32
IctQATAR
Ubiquitous Network Society Charter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34
Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications
Bridging the digital divide: the experience of Grameen Bank in Bangladesh . .37
Muhammad Yunus, Grameen Bank, Bangladesh
Malaysia bridges the digital divide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39
Mohamed Sharil Tarmizi, Malaysian Communications
and Multimedia Commission
Women and ICT development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41
Faryal Mouria Beji, Chief Executive, INBMI; Professor Researcher-ENSI, Tunis
University; Head of Artificial Intelligence Laboratory;
Member of the Working Group on Internet Governance
Citizens and local authorities in the knowledge age:
promoting information and communication technologies for local
sustainable development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43
Anne Fraser, Information Services Section,
United Nations Human Settlements Programme
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