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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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United Nations Media Alert: UN convenes regional experts to speed digital progress, in advance of eLAC2007 ministerial meeting

UN convenes regional experts to speed digital progress, in advance of Latin American and Caribbean ministerial meeting on the information society

United Nations, 31 January – The United Nations is to convene a meeting in El Salvador on 4-5 February 2008 to assist Latin American and Caribbean countries in using information and communication technologies (ICT) to eradicate poverty and support education, health and youth employment in the region.

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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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World Bank: ICTs and Gender-Evidence from OECD and Non-OECD Countries

Submitted by admin on Wed, 23/01/2008 - 10:02.

The video conference seminar presented and discussed a 2006 exploratory study paper prepared by OECD on the gender distribution of ICTs and ICT-related employment in OECD countries, including some non-OECD countries.

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Launch Seminar - Latin America and Caribbean Regional Network of the Global Alliance for ICT and Development

04/02/2008 - 10:00
05/02/2008 - 18:30

A seminar organized by the Global Alliance for Information and Communication Technologies and Development of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA GAID), the Inter- American Development Bank, the IDRC-ICA and ECLAC, will take place from 4-5 February 2008 at the Radisson Hotel in San Salvador, preceding the II Ministerial Conference on the Information Society eLAC2007.

Location(s)

Radisson Hotel
89 Avenida Norte y 11 Calle Poniente, Colonia Escalón
San Salvador
El Salvador
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Global Alliance Launches Website, Blog For Geneva Youth Forum

Submitted by admin on Thu, 21/06/2007 - 10:50.

The United Nations Global Alliance for Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for Development today launched the website of the Forum on Youth and ICT for Development, to be held on 24-26 September in Geneva, Switzerland.

The Youth Forum aims to involve young people in discussions with policymakers, thought leaders and representatives from the private sector and civil society, and to explore ways to empower them and encourage their full participation in society through the use of information and communications technology.

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ECA: Africa "must become key player" in information society

Submitted by admin on Wed, 09/05/2007 - 07:21.

The fifth Committee on Development Information (CODI-V) ended its weeklong meeting here on Friday with a call on African governments to urgently create jobs in the information and knowledge society. A final report, adopted by participants at the meeting, noted that information and knowledge had emerged as fundamental economic resources and a factor of global competitiveness. "Lack of access to, and utilization of, information and knowledge are in this context, a source of poverty," the report said.

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Fifth Meeting of the Committee on Development Information (CODI V)

29/04/2007 - 08:30
04/05/2007 - 18:30

The challenge of employment creation in Africa has been the focus of high-level political attention in the recent past. For example, the African Union Extraordinary Assembly of Heads of States and Governments adopted the Ouagadougou Declaration on Employment and Poverty Alleviation in September 2004. More recently in May 2006, the Economic Commission for Africa's (ECA) 39th Conference of African Ministers of Finance Planning and Economic Development, was convened on the theme: The Challenge of Employment and Poverty Alleviation in Africa.

Location(s)

UNECA Conference Center
Addis Ababa
Ethiopia
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United Nations World Youth Report 2007

Submitted by admin on Mon, 05/03/2007 - 10:20.

World Youth Report 2007 will examine the challenges and opportunities existing for the roughly 1.2 billion young people between the ages of 15 and 24 in the world. Distinct from the 2003 and 2005 editions, it will provide a regional overview summarizing the major youth development trends in the fifteen priority areas of the World Programme of Action for Youth. The report will explore major issues of concern to youth development, including employment, education, health, poverty and violence.

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Entrepreneurship, ICTs and Economic Growth

Forgotten truisms

  • There is no mystical link between the supply of information services and poverty eradication.
  • Poverty can only be eradicated with full, productive and quality employment - with decent work.
  • This, in turn, depends on the existence of competitive and economically sustainable enterprises capable of competing in an increasingly interconnected world.
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