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Examine current
status in terms of challenges and constraints of the
Information Science and Technology and identify ways
and means to promote innovation, creativity, and sharing
of global knowledge for the information society. |
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Examine the
relationship between Information Communication Technology
and the global transformation (scientific, economic,
social, political, cultural, and organizational) issues
and concerns at local, national, regional and global
levels. |
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Strengthen
the shared awareness – common vision - expressed
during the Geneva Phase of the UN World Summit |
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Mobilize
the scientific community and a wide range of other
stakeholders to examine and understand the information
society in a holistic manner, and develop a coherent
framework to facilitate actions. |
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Conduct policy
research and advocacy on issues such as universal and
inclusive access to the information society and develop
alternative approaches to meet the challenges of the
digital divide – such as rich and poor; virtual
and spatial; north-south; developed-developing; inter-intra
regional and national; countries with favorable physical
resources conditions and vulnerable small islands developing
states; mainstream beneficiaries-marginalized and disadvantaged
groups (women, men, youth, children, the disabled,
indigenous, migrant and refugee communities and the
vast segment of the rural population). |
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Promote international
cooperation and broad-based partnerships among stakeholders
to share the benefits of the information society in
an equitable manner. |
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Develop integrated
approaches to analyze infrastructure and content issues;
to preserve linguistic diversity and cultural identities;
and examine issues of information network security. |
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Examine the
economic, political and social realities that undermine
human rights and dignity in the context of information
society and find ways and means to promote human rights
and human development. |
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Integrate
the millennium declaration commitments to the UN WSIS
process. |
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