Digital Dividend 13:30-14:30 GMT 14-NOV-2005 WFD
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Dopesheet: DIGITAL DIVIDEND: A 46? Television Debate for broadcast before the World Summit on the Information Society
In 2005, presidents and pop stars endorsed the target of "making poverty history".
Precious little progress has been made in meeting the UN?s Millennium Development Goals aimed at halving poverty in 2005.
However, there are those who hold the view that information and communications technologies could provide a fast track out of poverty.
They point to numerous instances around the world, from Bangladesh to Bolivia, where getting connected has also meant poor communities getting better off. Others ? inclusive of Bill Gates ? take the view that the poor need the basics (health facilities, roads, schools, food security) before computers and mobile phones. It follows that these sectors should take the lion?s share of the development assistance funds.
The second and final leg of the World Summit on the Information Society will take place in mid-November in Tunis.
To date, most of the attention has focused on the rows over who should run the Internet. But there are those who believe this is a distraction from the real job at hand, which is bridging the digital divide.
The view is that the concentration of ICTs in the hands of the rich is making them richer and widening the income gap, within and between countries. Hence the developing nations, especially, seek to use the Summit as a means to add to the assistance they expect from the donor nations.
At the ITU headquarters, 30 participants representing all sides of the ICT universe debated for 120 minutes the measures they say should be taken to get a digital dividend for the poor.
The debate has been edited to 46? with video inserts illustrating the themes tackled by the participants.
Topics covered include: bridging the knowledge gap; why investment in ICTs are so low on the international agenda; contribution of the private sector vis a vis government; ICTs as a tool for education; neglect of the traditional communications technologies, mainly radio; lack of energy as a main barrier to the spread of ICTs; ICTs for human rights and free expression; outlook for what Phase two of WSIS will achieve.
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Shotlist: 10:26:27 pan
10:26:37 Anita McNaught Moderator UK intro
10:27:18 Ms. Namrata Bali General Secretary, SEWA (Self-Employed Women's Association) INDIA Speaking of my experience?
10:28:17 Ambassador Walter Fust SDC Director-General and Chair, GKP Executive Committee SWITZERLAND
10:28:67 Mr. Louis Dominique Ouedraogo Inspector at the United Nations Joint Inspection Unit BURKINA FASO
Anita McNaught costs
10:29:57 Mr. Martin Sandelin, Vice President, Corporate Social Responsibility and Community Involvement, Corporate Relations & Responsibility, NOKIA FINLAND Most people haven?t made a phone call
10:31:34 Anita McNaught
10:31:44 Mr. Martin Sandelin WSIS ? UN ICT Task Force
10:32:28 Professor Subbiah Arunachalam, Distinguished Fellow in the MS Swaminathan Research Foundation INDIA
10:32:54 Anita McNaught
10:22:10 Professor Subbiah Arunachalam
10:33:25 Dr. Gillian Marcelle, Principal Consultant, Technology for Development & ICT Task Force TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
10:33:55 Anita McNaught
10:34 Dr. Gillian Marcelle
Anita McNaught
10:34:25 Mr. Pindar Wong, Chairman, Asia & Pacific Internet Association HONG KONG
10:35:11 Ms. Christine Butegwa, Programme Officer, African Women's Development and Communication Network (FEMNET)KENYA
10:36:10 Anita McNaught
10:36:40 Dr. Abdul Waheed Khan, Assistant Director-General for Communication & Information, UNESCO INDIA
10:37:54 Anita McNaught
10:38:53 INDIA FILM
10:40:32 Anita McNaught
10:40:43 Mr. Iqbal Quadir, Founder, Grameen Phone
BANGLADESH Status policies, centralisation of power. 60 yrs of aid has gone to govt. Technology is a decentralising force. Gives power to the people.
Anita McNaugh
10:41:48 Mr. Iqbal Quadir 100,000,000 - access
10:42:19 Ms. Anriette Esterhuysen, Executive Director, Association for Progressive Communications, Johannesburg
SOUTH AFRICA Appropriately?issue of cost not the major barrier, how to deal with creating access.
10:43:24 Anita McNaught
10:43:39 Mr. Adama Samassékou, Former WSIS PrepCom President and Mali Education Minister MALI
10:45:01 Anita McNaught
10:45:19 Dr. Tony Salvador, Director of World Wide Ethnographic & Design Research, Channel Platforms Definition & Development Group, Intel Corporation USA Examples. How do we empower? Incomes increased by 60% by using a cell phone. Community centre and telecentre and radio, info kiosk ? business model appropriate to India.
A computer that can tolerate heat and dust
10:47:08 Anita McNaught
10:47:31 Mrs Namrata Bali Video camera: street vendor did a video ⁄ documentary. 12 minutes got 362 women licenses to sell in the market. Not just affordability, access, capacity and policy.
10:48:29 Anita McNaught
10:49:46 E-MAIL FROM INDIA
10:50:10 Mr. Kenn Cukier, Columnist for The Economist and Communications expert
USA Liberalising the telecom market more important than personal technology. Sim card tax. Add electricity, set the basics?..before anything. Miss the point if we focus only on tech
10:52:09 Dr. Gillian Marcelle Example of Jamaica. Align technology with development. Channel the technology.
Anita McNaught
10:53:30 Ambassador Walter Fust Compromise: demand driven approach. Not electronic dumping.
10:54:14 Anita McNaught
10:54:21 Ms. Astrid Dufborg, Assistant Director-General, Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA)
SWEDEN Give ops to children and provide teachers and schools. The teacher is just the provider of info should move to being a facilitator of learning.
10:55:39 Anita McNaught
10:55:22 In Sarbuland?s seat: Mr. Pierre Dandjinou ICT for Development Programme, UNDP BENIN Education, innovation,
10:57:43 Anita McNaught
10:57:50 In Sarbuland?s seat: Mr. Pierre Dandjinou
10:58:17 Mr. Paul Wilson, Director-General of Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) AUSTRALIA
10:59:07 Anita McNaught
10:59:27 Mr. Martin Sandelin
11:01:06 BOLIVIA FILM
11:02:13 Anita McNaught
11:02:29 Ms. Christine Butegwa Women use SMS text, to get governments to give support to the protocol on women?s rights. In Uganda, not just new tech also old, use comm. radio ? women used it to get govt to look at women?s views on agriculture. Resources had to reach women (main)
11:04:15 Anita McNaught
11:04:29 Mr. Carlos A. Afonso, Head of Technological Development, RITS (Information Network for the Third Sector) BRAZIL
11:06:40 Anita McNaught
11:06:46 Mr, Yoshio Utsumi, Secretary-General of ITU JAPAN
11:08:04 Anita McNaught
11:08:15 Mr. Kenn Cukier Not gonna happen. Governance. Capital investment. Users to do it themselves.
11:09:13 Mr. Louis Dominique Ouedraogo People drive democracy
11:10:40 Anita McNaught China
11:10:50 Mr. Louis Ouedraogo
11:11:52 Anita McNaught
11:12:03 Mr. Gourisankar Ghosh, Executive Director, Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council INDIA
11:12:50 Mr. Gourisankar Ghosh, [First part is cut off] We the people to change it, not govts or agencies with agendas.
11:13:59 Mr. Ken Lohento, Coordinator of the Centre for International ICT Policies, Central and West Africa (CIPACO)
SENEGAL Govt has an important role to play. Democracy new, so need more time in Africa.
11:15:? Anita McNaught
11:15:50 Ms. Namrata Bali
11:16:50 Anita McNaught
11:17:07 RWANDA FILM
11:18:25 Anita McNaught
11:18:52 Mr. Rory Stear, Founder and CEO, Freeplay Energy Group UK Energy?.
11:19:
11:22:06 Anita McNaught
11:22:17 Mr. Nalaka Gunawardene, Asia-Pacific Media Specialist SRI LANKA
11:23:06 Anita McNaught Radio and TV one way medium.
11:23:15 Mr. Nalaka Gunawardene
11;23:48 Anita McNaught
11:24:10 Mr. Carsten Fink, Senior Economist, World Bank USA Private money goes far.
11:25:35 Anita McNaught
11:25:44 Mr. Carsten Fink
11:26:38 Ambassador Walter Fust
11:26:40 Mr. Carsten Fink
11:26:58 Anita McNaught
11:27:00 Mr. Carsten Fink
11:27:47 Dr. Gillian Marcelle Market forces represent citizens. Holistic approach
11:28:42 Ms. Clotilde Fonseca Executive Director, Omar Dengo Foundation COSTA RICA Poverty will not be overcome by ICT. It is about capacity building. Connecting the world is central.
11:29:45 Mr. Adama Samassékou Knowledge divide. English?.
11:32:22 Dr. Tom Kessinger, General Manager, Aga Khan Foundation USA
11:34:13 Mr. Martin Sandelin
11:35:04 Ms. Astrid Dufborg
11:35:54 Anita McNaught Will WSIS help?
11:36:08 Dr. Abdul Waheed Khan
11:36:45 Ms. Clotilde Fonseca
11:37:14 Anita McNaught Wind down ? review with panellists
11:37:50 Mr. Ken Cukier
11:38:27 Mr. Rory Stear
11:38:57 Ms. Namarata Bali
11:40:47 Ambassador Walter Fust
11:41:30 Dr. Gillian Marcelle
11:42:36 Mr. Martin Sandelin
11:43:10 Mr. Louis Dominique Ouedraogo
11:45:42 Ms. Radhika Lal, Development Economist UNDP ?? Point to edit in
11:47:00 Mr. Alexander Ntoko, Project Manager, ITU ?? Point to edit in
11:48:59 Ms. Rinalia Abdul Rahim., Executive Director, Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP) MALAYSIA
11:49:27 Anita McNaught Thank you and good bye?
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Tx_Time: 13:30 - 14:30 Tx_Date: 14-NOV-2005 Status: CNF
Origin: ZZEBU Origin City: GNVE
Item type: WFD