[WSIS CS-Plenary] UNCTAD asked to devise a proposal for SDR for DSF

[Atanu Garai]

This meeting seems to be a foreground for UNCTAD's post-WSIS involvement.
/Atanu

From: http://www.unctad.org/en/docs/tdxipcd5_en.pdf
Mr. Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, Chairman and CEO, Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Organization
(TAGO), and Vice Chair of the UN ICT Task Force, emphasized the crucial
importance of
education in capacity building and called on UNCTAD to consider giving
education greater emphasis
in the pre-Conference negotiating text or making it a separate theme. UNCTAD
should play a leading
role in the preparations for the second phase of the World Summit on the
Information Society (WSIS),
to be held in Tunis in 2005, including monitoring the implementation of the
Plan of Action adopted
during the first phase of WSIS. UNCTAD should participate actively in the
current discussion on
Internet governance and ICT for security, in close collaboration with the UN
ICT Task Force and the
ICC, and it should assist developing countries in the design of ICT policies
and in the development of
e-business capacities. It should devise a proposal for a special drawing
right (SDR) system in support
of the global solidarity fund to help bridge the "digital divide", and it
should carry out policy research
into other new and emerging technologies, such as bioinformatics,
nanotechnology and
biotechnology, with a view to helping developing countries formulate
relevant policies in these areas.




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