GAID News Coverage

e-Oculus: Mayors from Across Globe Talk Up Sustainable Globalization

Submitted by admin on Thu, 15/05/2008 - 04:56.

Topics ranging from planning for smart growth to sustainable urbanization in the information age occupied the Forum on Sustainable Urbanization in the Information Age for two days. It included sessions linking cities from countries including: Brazil, Columbia, Madagascar, Senegal, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, Tanzania, Turkey, Tunisia, and USA. At the end, all urged greater concern for Least Developed Countries (LDC), urban dwellers and population growth, and rural/urban linkage. In addition, the problems of limited budgets for basic social needs must be addressed.

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UN News: Mayors gather at UN to discuss practical steps for dealing with urban problems

Submitted by admin on Fri, 25/04/2008 - 08:53.

Mayors and other representatives from some of the world’s biggest and most rapidly growing cities have been meeting at United Nations Headquarters in New York over the past two days to examine how they can harness innovative forms of technology to overcome the environmental problems caused by the relentless expansion of urban areas.

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ECLAC: Global Alliance for ICT and Development Launches Regional Network and Proposes New eLAC Goals

Submitted by admin on Wed, 06/02/2008 - 09:54.

The launch Seminar for the Regional Network of the Global Alliance for ICT and Development (GAID), held 4-5 February in San Salvador, El Salvador, brought together 100 ICT-for-development experts to present proposals to the eLAC Ministerial Conference on the role of ICTs in poverty eradication, health, education, youth employment, and e-government.

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ECLAC: Ministers Meet to Set Specific Goals for Reducing the Digital Divide in the Region

Submitted by admin on Wed, 30/01/2008 - 07:18.

Helping Latin America and the Caribbean to take advantage of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for development, the eLAC process has been coordinating policies and priorities, fostering synergies, and creating consensus in the region. The Ministerial Conference organized by El Salvador will advance this goal by seeking broad political agreement on more than 90 goals suggested for the new Regional Action Plan eLAC2010.

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ECLAC: Three important meetings to take place in San Salvador this February

Submitted by admin on Tue, 29/01/2008 - 17:02.

From 4-5 February 2008, you are invited to attend the launch seminar for the GAID Latin American and Caribbean Regional Network, organized by the Global Alliance for Information and Communication Technologies and Development of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA GAID), ECLAC, the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), and Canada's International Development Research Centre - Institute for Connectivity in the Americas (IDRC-ICA).

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CNN: Technology and peace: What's the connection?

Submitted by admin on Mon, 07/01/2008 - 08:11.

As 2008 gets underway we don't have peace. (Just look at this depressing list in Wikipedia of ongoing conflicts worldwide.) But Daniel Stauffacher doesn't get depressed. Instead he thinks technology can help. This entrepreneur and Swiss diplomat leads a recently-formed group called the ICT for Peace Foundation, which aims to promote the latest digital and Internet tools for the people who truly need them most.

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UN News: UN partners with European Commission to boost ICT investment

Submitted by admin on Wed, 19/12/2007 - 12:46.

A new agreement between the United Nations telecommunications agency and the European Commission aims to attract greater investments in information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure in the Caribbean, Africa and Asia and the Pacific.

The collaboration between the UN International Telecommunication Union ITU) and the Commission is a follow-up to commitments made at the Connect Africa Summit in Kigali, Rwanda, in October when the EC expressed support for the agency's regulatory reform initiatives in Africa.

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UN News: Information technology can be harnessed against climate change, UN meeting told

Submitted by admin on Wed, 28/11/2007 - 09:58.

Information and communication technologies (ICT) are largely contributing to climate change but also hold the key to tackling it, several experts and industry figures told a conference today at United Nations headquarters in New York.

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ECA: Connect Africa Summit adopts five goals to bridge the digital divide in Africa

Submitted by admin on Wed, 07/11/2007 - 07:41.

The Connect Africa Summit which took place in Kigali, Rwanda, on 29 - 30 October 2007, ended with the adoption of five goals to bridge the digital divide in Africa.

The Summit, which was held under the patronage of the President of Rwanda, Mr. Paul Kagame, gathered over a thousand participants from 54 countries, including six Heads of State and Government. Forty-three countries in Africa were represented, including 23 at the Ministerial level.

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Alternatives: Civil society calls for new governance to make Internet accessible to Africans

Submitted by admin on Tue, 06/11/2007 - 20:45.

Convened on the 28th of October 2007 by the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) from which Alternatives is a member, civil society groups have called for new forms of corporate governance to develop the ICT infrastructure in Africa. These new forms should "ensure the interests of all stakeholders, but above all, the interest of African consumers and citizens," the statement insists.

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