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.

Discussions in four panels developed specific recommendations to be presented today to delegates participating in the II Ministerial Conference on the Information Society in Latin America and the Caribbean, eLAC2007, from 6-8 February in San Salvador. This meeting will conclude with an agreement for a new Regional Plan of Action for the Information Society in Latin America and the Caribbean (eLAC2010) .

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