[UgaBYTES] Declaration on ICT for Development

Fri Sep 18 07:57:22 GMT 2009

Hello Gerhard,

I am happy to read your comments about Ahm Rahman !
This because I had a chance to work with Peter Bruck ( the Chairman of
WSA) as the National Expert for Burundi since 2003.
Peter Bruck is really the greatest content visionary I have ever met !
Endeed, when attending ICT events, I find that Infrastructures issues are
taking most of the time. Even during in the recently ended GAID forum in
Monterrey which was dedocated to ICTs in Education, I felt like many
panellists really talked about infrastructures ( computers, broadband,
accessibility) .
I can say my greatest fun was attending the WSA Gala and conferences there !

So, I am convinced that the e. content industry is the one that can make
difference in future !

Sincerely
> 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.
>
> *********************
>
> 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.
>
> ************************
> 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/
>
> *******************************
>
>
> 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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>>
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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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>>
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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
>>_______________________
>>AHM. Bazlur Rahman-S21BR
>>Chief Executive Officer
>>Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication(BNNRC)
>>&
>>Member, Strategy Council
>>UN-Global Alliance for ICT and Development (UN GAID)
>>
>>House: 13/1, Road:2, Shaymoli, Dhaka-1207
>>Post Box: 5095, Dhaka 1205 Bangladesh
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>>Phone: 88-02-9130750, 88-02-9138501
>>01711881647 Fax: 88-02-9138501-105
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>>E-mail: ceo at bnnrc.net, bnnrc at bd.drik.net
>>www.bnnrc.net
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