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The Digital Initiative for Development (DID) Agency
An International Consultative
Workshop
September 11-12,
2001, Beirut, Lebanon
The Lebanese Center
for Policy Studies (LCPS), in collaboration with the Centre for Global
Studies at the University of Victoria, Canada, held a meeting of ICT
experts, consultants and practitioners, in Beirut, on September 11-12,
2001. The
main objective of the meeting was to discuss the nature, the mandate
and the areas of intervention of an international agency dedicated
to fostering the use of ICT for sustainable development. Among
the 20 participants, several belonged to major institutions dealing
with ICT for development (World Bank, UNDP, UNESCO, IFIP), while others
came from NGOs or university and research background. The participants
formed a cross-section of a wide geographical area, and came from
ten countries (Dubai, Egypt, India, Lebanon, Morocco, Senegal, South
Africa, the United States, Uruguay). Please
click here to see the Final Report
of the September 2 meeting.
This meeting
was the first in the development of a White Paper on the need for
an Agency to focus on the digital divide, being produced in collaboration
with the State of the World Forum, which will be presented to the
Commission on Globalisation for their input and comment.
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