Abu-Ghazaleh: A Plan to Fill Digital Gap Worldwide
27 Jun 2003The Vice-Chair of the United Nations Information and Communication Technologies Task Force (UN ICT TF) Mr. Talal Abu-Ghazaleh said that “The speed of global technological and economic transformation demands urgent action on a global scale to turn the Digital Divide into digital opportunities for all.”
Mr. Abu-Ghazaleh –who was speaking during his chairmanship of the “Conference on the Wireless Internet Opportunity for Developing Nations” at the UN headquarters in New York and organized by the UN in collaboration with the Wireless Internet Institute- declared that he will present a global action plan to the conference on the Information Society that is to be convened next September, which will include suggestions on how major interested parties can support the advancement of international efforts to bridge the digital gap and enhance progressive wireless technology in developing nations.
Abu-Ghazaleh had also delivered the speech of the UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the conference.
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