EMERGING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY TRENDS AND INNOVATION TAKE CENTRE STAGE AT UN FORUM

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EMERGING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY TRENDS AND INNOVATION TAKE CENTRE
STAGE AT UN FORUMNew York, May 13 2013 7:00PMMore than 1,500
participants from Government, private sector, civil society and
international organizations are meeting at a United Nations
<"http://www.itu.int/wsis/implementation/2013/forum/">forum in Geneva
this week to review and measure progress towards targets set almost a
decade ago designed to help countries more effectively harness the
power of information and communication technologies (ICTs).

The WSIS Forum is an "international multi-stakeholder engagement" to
meet the goals of the World Summit on the Information Society which
met in Geneva in 2003 and in Tunis in 2005, according to the UN
International Telecommunications Union (ITU), the host and main
organizer of the event.

The Summit set out Action Plans in several key areas for ICT
development, including ICT infrastructure and capacity building,
cybersecurity and ICT applications in key areas such as e-Government,
e-Learning, e-Health and e-Environment.

"Ten years after the Geneva phase of WSIS, we are witnessing some of
the most innovative developments in the ICT sector," ITU
Secretary-General Hamadoun I. Touré told a press conference held today
on the sidelines of the opening of the Forum.

"Mobile phone subscriptions are reaching the 7 billion mark," he
noted. "In 2012, two and a half billion people used the Internet from
one device or another.

"The thrust now is to drive content through enhanced broadband access
that will feed both rural communities and urban centres," he
continued. "It is now time to look at WSIS+10 and how we can continue
the momentum for the future development of ICTs, which govern so many
aspects of our day-to-day life."

During the Forum, high-level dialogues with Government ministers and
representatives from business and civil society will examine issues
such as women's empowerment in the information society; smart climate
change monitoring; ICT innovations and standards; cybersecurity; and
youth and ICTs.

Also on the agenda is ICTs and the so-called 'post-2015 agenda' – the
global development agenda beyond 2015, the deadline for meeting the
internationally agreed anti-poverty targets known as the Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs).

"Together we will address a range of issues within the global
information society and we will reflect on how ICTs continue to shape
the daily lives of individuals, businesses, communities and
governments," said Mr. Touré.

Addressing today's opening, the ITU chief said that this year's WSIS
Forum is a unique opportunity to "develop consensus on what is needed
for the WSIS process in the future, to ensure that the bottom-up
approach of the WSIS process is preserved and that the decisions
concerning modalities also respect the real requirements of the use of
ICTs for socio-economic development, while ensuring growth in the ICT
ecosystem itself."

Also today, the ITU awarded prizes to 18 recipients in recognition of
outstanding effort and achievement in the implementation of
WSIS-related activities. The winners include the education ministries
of Saudi Arabia, the Civil Service Commission of Kuwait, the
University of La Punta in Argentina, and Child Helpline International
from the Netherlands.May 13 2013 7:00PM
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