In spite of constraints, many small island developing States in Asia and the Pacific had managed to increase the penetration of mobile telephony to between 10 and 20 per cent of their populations, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs Sha Zukang said yesterday at the opening of the United Nations Global Forum on Access and Connectivity in Kuala Lumpur.

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The United Nations Global Alliance for Information and Communications Technology and Development should chart a multi-year work programme to spread the benefits of information and communications technology to the developing world, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs Sha Zukang said today at the Alliance’s third annual meeting in Kuala Lumpur.

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With more than half of the world’s population now becoming mobile telephone subscribers the digital divide in such phones has been largely bridged, but there remains a widening risk of an Internet broadband divide, the head of the United Nations agency for telecommunication warned today.

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A leading United Nations body working to spread the benefits of information technology should concentrate on the areas that most concern people around the world, the chair of that body said today.

Craig Barrett, Chair of the UN Global Alliance for Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and Development, told the third annual meeting of the Global Alliance in Kuala Lumpur that people were most interested about: getting software and hardware, connectivity, local content and ICT education.

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WCIT 2008 will take place at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre from May 18-22.

In conjunction with the international congress, 13 satellite events will take place at the same venue.

Among them is the International Advisory Panel meeting — an international body set up in the late 1990s to provide counsel to the Government on legislation and policies to develop MSC Malaysia-specific practices, and to set standards for multimedia operations.

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Apart from an increase in consumer purchase, growth in communications including broadband provision, and outsourcing, the main contributors are also IT-related events such as the major upcoming "World Congress Information Technology (WCIT 2008)" as well as several other events including 14 IT-related events to be held at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre this May 18-22.

"WCIT 2008 anchors four other core events and up to eight related events," Wong told Bernama in an interview at the WCIT media open day here today.

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