[UgaBYTES] Declaration on ICT for Development

Thu Sep 17 14:34:21 GMT 2009

Dear Mr Ahm,

let met me share some news with you:

1) I had yesterday a very fruitful conversation with the
founder of the World Summit Award (WSA)
He finally convinced Negroponte that after
- affordable hardware
- affordable software
- we require premium CONTENT-WARE
(and we are aware that open elearning content cannot manage
to produce best contents
- in 500 languages
- for at least 10 heterogeneous target groups (kids, business, tourists so on)
- localized for 180 countries and their different historical background.

it was a pitfall of the past 15 years that universities did
establish elearning-applications and (mediocre) content and
destroyed to a certain extent the local multimedia markets.
Thats not their primary competence.

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2) in terms of internet principles I would draft the following questions:

A. Do we reach a (synergetic, clear-cut) division of labour between
the three major stakeholders
- national and local governments
- local enterprises
- civil society (NGOs)
to establish and implement a national information society?
In most countries its a mass and often Government
forced NGOs and start-ups to close down by means of
unfair competition.

B. Key in times of financial crisis:
Which principles support the creation of NEW JOBS
and which destroy the market for innovative start-ups?

The European Commission stressed already in 1995 that
the local CONTENT-INDUSTRIES should become the major
source of jobs, as implemented in brilliant form by the U.S, and
some Scandinavian countries.

We are all away are that - alt least in Europe- the telecom and ISP-markets
became saturated and they decreased the number of staff.
Thats not the future job market.

Digital TV on the mobile phone did NOT take off in most
European Countries, even not in Finland, since new forms
of added-value CONTENT were not published.
There are various reasons why Japan succeeded and Europe failed.

In conclusion: ICT without a well defined content-policy
is loss of time and money. User generated content works only
as by-product to EXISTING premium content.

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Further principles proposed:

8) Governments, local enterprises and civil society should agree
a) on a LONG-TERM division of labour
b) how to implement and  invest into ICT and content-development
c) and how to achieve concerted action.

9) Creating New local jobs in periphery regions:
Government should provide for FAIR competition so that
local enterprises and start-ups may establish premium and
localised contents and added-value (mobile) services.
In order to establish LOCAL jobs on a sustainable base (in periphery regions).

10) Countries are encouraged to adopt swiftly a PSI legislation which grants
both enterprises and NGOs to re-use public data and databases to
establish added-value contents and services
(see the EU PSI Directive 2003: the re-use of public sector information).

Note: you would not have a NAVIGATION SYSTEM in your car,
if the American and Dutch Government would have neglected
the three principles outlined above. Garmin, Teleatlas and TomTom
struggled for decades to get licensed thousands of public databases.
Nowadays even the public sector has licensed these private services.

kind regards,

Gerhard, Vienna - Belgrade - Budapest

Inspire your local content and multimedia communities
to participate at the World Summit Award
http://www.wsis-award.org/

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At 00:35 20.09.2009, AHM Bazlur Rahman wrote:

>Declaration on ICT for Development
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>World Congress on ICT for Development, 11 September 2009, Beijing
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>The 2009 World Congress on ICT for Development, WCID'09, held Sept. 
>10-12, 2009 in Beijing, was sponsored by the World Federation of 
>Engineering Organizations (WFEO) and China Association for Science 
>and Technology (CAST), co-sponsored by International 
>Telecommunication Union (ITU), United Nations' Educational, 
>Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the United Nation's 
>Global Alliance on ICT and Development (UN-GAID), and the 
>International Center for Science-Technology-Innovation for 
>South-South Cooperation (ISTIC), and organized by the WFEO Committee 
>on Information and Communication (CIC). The theme of WCID09 was "ICT 
>for Development". A number of issues of significance related to the 
>theme were addressed in the Congress and the participants have 
>reached the following understandings and agreements.
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>1, Millennium Development Goal, for Remedying the Unbalancing Boat
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>People, from every corner of the globe have same rights for seeking 
>the happier life. We are in fact in a big village and sailing on the same boat.
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>Due to historical reasons, however, people have been in different 
>positions, richer or poorer, stronger or weaker, well-educated or 
>less-enlightened. Over-unbalance may lead to danger to the mankind.
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>To remedy the situation, the United Nations have set a Millennium 
>Development Goal to at least halve the poor population before 2015. 
>This is a loyal responsibility for all of us.
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>2, Information Age, New Stage of Human Society
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>Science and Technology as a whole is the major driving force for the 
>development of human society.
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>Material Science and Technology has made it possible for human 
>society to advance from nomadic age to agricultural age, Energy 
>Science and Technology has driven the society from agricultural age 
>to industrial age, and now Information Science and Technology is 
>leading the society from industrial age to information age.
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>3, ICT, Effective Tool for Development in the New Age
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>Advancement of the human society depends on the new tools innovated 
>by science and technology.
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>The typical new tool in information age is the information and 
>communication technology, ICT, which has two stages to develop: the 
>Primary stage and the Advanced stage.
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>The Primary ICT Tool supports the convenience of information sharing 
>among people that will make better matches among sectors of the 
>society and thus improves the social productivities.
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>The Advanced ICT Tool will support highest efficiency and creativity 
>in social productivities and provide equal opportunity for people to 
>use, leading the various kinds of gaps existed in society gradually 
>diminished.
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>4, Education, Key to the Use of ICT Tool
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>To effectively use ICT Tool for making progress in economic and 
>social development, people need to acquire necessary kinds of 
>knowledge and skills. Education will thus play the most fundamental 
>and indispensable role.
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>People in information age have the advantage of using ICT for 
>receiving education. This has been proved by many appreciable cases 
>presented during WCID'09.
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>5, Responsibility for Governments and Citizens
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>Government in any country should take on the responsibility to 
>promote the national education for all people and place education as 
>the top priority on the national development agenda.
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>Government should also take effective measures to encourage all 
>stakeholders for building up and maintaining the national 
>infrastructure as well as creating the variety of information 
>resources so that people, including disabled people, can afford to 
>use ICT Tool for learning, working and living.
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>Citizens should well be aware of the importance of learning and 
>people are never too old to learn ICT.
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>6, Responsibility for International Organizations
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>To reduce the unbalance of development among nations, international 
>cooperation between developed and developing countries should be 
>strengthened. Developed countries have responsibility to provide 
>assistance to the developing countries in this regards.
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>The international organizations have obligations to work together 
>for promoting various kinds of cooperation among nations. 
>Conference, e.g., WCID'09, is one of the approaches for this purpose.
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>7, Public Call
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>The participants of WCID'09 strongly appeal to all citizens, 
>professions, governments and international bodies to take effective 
>actions in promoting ICT for sustainable human, economic and social 
>development.
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>Bazlu
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>AHM. Bazlur Rahman-S21BR
>Chief Executive Officer
>Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication(BNNRC)
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>UN-Global Alliance for ICT and Development (UN GAID)
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