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deployment, to optimize payback

(2004):

www.enterpriseiq.com/mktg/IMD_PFM_1104.asp

13 Ibid.

14 The Business Management System, International Trade Centre (ITC)

UNCTAD/WTO, Geneva 2003.

Redefining communication, transforming India

1 Reliance Infocomm has over one million R Connect customers today. R World

receives about a billion page view, every month. It receives over seven million

cricket look-ups on the day of a match. Over 10 movies and events have been

covered under its show-time programme, translating to three million hits. The

service has announced some 75 examination results already. Ringtone

downloads are of the tune of 2.5 million every month.

2 Netway is Reliance Infocomm’s triple play service, riding on a bandwidth of

100 Mbps. Home Netway will deliver hundreds of television channels to

thousands of homes through a multifunctional, digital set-top box designed

and manufactured in-house. The 40 GB memory state-of-the-art set-top box is

capable of storing nearly 10 hours of programming.

3 Reliance’s “Monsoon Hungama” offer of June 2003 is a classic case. It offered

mobile handset and connection at a down payment of Rs 501 (approx. USD

11), almost a tenth of what other operators were charging for the same at that

time. The scheme garnered 10 lakh subscribers in less than a month. In little

more than three yeas, competition reduced per minute charges by 90 per

cent. Access, prepay, roaming, and messaging tariffs, likewise fell,” observes

the Shosteck Group.

III

WSIS

FOR DEVELOPMENT

The convergence of summits: the 2005 World Summit and the World Summit

on the Information Society

1

The Inequality Predicament:

Report on the World Social Situation 2005 (New

York: United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, 2005).

2 Report of the Secretary-General,

In larger freedom: Towards development,

security and human rights for all,

www.un.org/largerfreedom/

(paragraph 27).

eLAC2007 – Implementing the Geneva Plan of Action in Latin America and the

Caribbean

1 The ECLAC Information Society Programme receives financial support from

the @LIS project of the European Commission and the International

Development Research Centre (IDRC)-Institute for Connectivity in the

Americas (ICA).

2 See Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC),

P

olíticas públicas para el desarrollo de sociedades de información en América

Latina y el Caribe

(LC/W.19), June 2005:

www.cepal.org/cgibin/getProd.asp?xml=/

publicaciones/xml/5/21575/P21575

.xml&xsl=ddpe/tpl/p9f.xsl&base=/socinfo/tpl/top-bottom.xsl

3 Martin Hilbert ‘Comment on the Financing Aspect of the Information Society

for Developing Countries’, MIT Press,

The World Summit on the Information

Society in Reflection:

ITI, information technologies and international

development, Vol. 1, Issues 3-4, (2005):

http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?tid=15616&ttype=6

4 This effort is reflected in particular in the following declarations: the

Declaration of Florianópolis (July 2000), the Declaration of Itacuruçá

(October 2000), the Decision of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Rio

Group to set up a working group on information technologies (March 2001),

the Rio de Janeiro Declaration on ICT for Development (June 2001), Agenda

for Connectivity in the Americas and Plan of Action of Quito (August 2002),

the Bávaro Declaration (January 2003 and the Rio de Janeiro Commitment

(June 2005).

ICT, poverty reduction and the role of micro, small and medium enterprises

1 For further information on UNIDO’s ICT activities, including their linkage

into the technical cooperation programmes of the organization please contact:

Mr. Abel J.J. Rwendeire,

Managing Director,

Programme Development and Technical Cooperation Division,

United Nations Industrial Development Organization,

Vienna International Centre,

Wagramerst. 5,

P.O. Box 300,

A-1400 Vienna,

Austria,

E-mail:

wsis@unido.org

Financing information infrastructure in the developing world

1 This article is based on the World Bank report,

‘Financing Information and

Communication Infrastructure Needs in the Developing World: Public and Private

Role’,

issued in February 2005. This article represents the views of the

authors, not necessarily those of the World Bank, its Executive Directors, or

the countries that they represent. Contact:

ckenny@worldbank.org.

Thanks

to Isabel Neto for edits and additions. The full version of the report can be

accessed online at:

http://lnweb18.worldbank.org/ict/resources.nsf/InfoResources/04C3CE1B933

921A585256FB60051B8F5

2 ‘WSIS Plan of Action’, WSIS-03/GENEVA/DOC/0005 (12 December 2003):

www.itu.int/wsis/documents/doc_single-en-1160.asp

3 See the full report for details of this calculation.

4 We have evidence from surveys that ask entrepreneurs in the developing

world about the constraints to the growth of their businesses, including a

question regarding the seriousness of constraints created by inadequate

telecommunications services.

www.ifc.org/ifcext/economics.nsf/Content/ic-wbes

5 The companies are Vodacom, MTN, Orange, Orascom, Celtel and Milicom.

The data relates to the continent of Africa, and revenues and profits for

Orange were estimated from its share in Africa’s subscriber base. Data from

ITU News No. 5 (June 2004).

6 Calculated from data in the PPI database, see

http://ppi.worldbank.org/

7 The International Finance Corporation is the primary provider of financing to

the private sector ICI industry in the WBG— through loans, equity, quasi-

equity, risk management products and guarantees.

8 For more information on the Financing Instruments available in the Bank

Group to support ICT, see Neto, 2005.

Further References:

-

Guislain, P. and C. Qiang.

FDI in Telecommunications

, (World Bank,

Washington, DC Processed 2004).

-

ITU,

World Telecommunication Development Report.

(ITU: Geneva, 2004a).

-

ITU,

General Trends in Telecommunication Reform

, (ITU: Geneva,. 2004b).

-

Kenny, C., B. Lanvin and A. Lewin. 2003.

The Access Divide

:

1990 to 2000 in

World Bank Global ICT Department ICT and Development

(Washington, DC:

World Bank, 2003).

-

Keremane, R. and C. Kenny,

The Costs of Universal Access

(World Bank,

Washington DC. Processed, 2005).

-

Neto, I.

The World Bank Group Financial Instruments and Their Contribution to

Information and Communication Technologies

, mimeo, (World Bank, 2005).

-

Ure, J.

Infrastructure in East Asia and the Pacific – The Way Forward

Telecom

Note For the World Bank. World Bank, Washington, DC. (2004).

-

Wellenuis, B.

Extending Telecommunications Service to Rural Areas – the Chilean

Experience

, World Bank Viewpoint Note No. 105. (World Bank, Washington,

DC, 1997).

-

World Bank

Information and Communications Technologies: A World Bank

Strategy

(Washington DC: World Bank, 2002).

How weather, climate and water information saves life and promotes

sustainable development

1 www.wmo.int/index-en.html

2 www.wmo.int/web/www/www.html

3 www.wmo.int/web/www/TEM/gts.html

4 www.wmo.int/web/www/FWIS-Web/homefwis.htm

The social dimension of ICT

1 ILO (2005),

Global Employment Trends Brief 2004,

Geneva.

2 ILO (2004),

World Employment Report 2004-05: Employment, Productivity and

Poverty Reduction,

Geneva.

3 ILO (2003),

Working out of Poverty,

Report of the Director General to the 91st

Session of the International Labour Conference, Geneva.

4 See

www.ilo.org/public/english/fairglobalization/

5 Author, David H,

Wiring the Labor Market

. Working Paper 7959 (2000)

www.nber.org/papers/w7959

6 Hadass, Yael S. (2004):

The Effect of Internet Recruiting on the Matching of

Workers and Employers Harvard University.

7 Newman, Nathan, ‘Is Labor Missing The Internet Third Wave?’

Working USA

Volume 8, Issue 4 (June 2005) 383.

8 A further reference to this particular case can be found in Carty, Victoria,

‘Technology and Counter-hegemonic Movements’,

Social Movement Studies

Volume 1, Issue 2 (1 October 2002) 129-146.

9 Comfort, Louise K.

Rapidly Evolving Response Systems in Crisis Environments:

An Analytical Model

Working Paper 2001-6, Graduate School of Public and

International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh.

10 Paragraph 5 of the Millennium Declaration.