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Task Name
Global Digital Compact
Duration
682 days
Goal: work together to achieve ICT development goals (e.g. governments create stimulating regulatory environment and fiscal incentives, business bring in technology and made available simple
applications, non-governmental organizations undertake awareness campaigns and work at community level etc.
Actions (44c, 46)
• Launch a "Global Digital Compact" as a new pattern for partnership and interaction between governments and non-governmental actors, based on division of labour and specialized responsibilities,
as well as on identified specific and common interests; a model that could start from the institutional relationships already existing in ITU, with ITU as coordinator
• A commitment to financing the different initiatives proposed in this action plan is an essential element in its successful implementation. This will require innovative partnerships between the public
and private sectors, and the integration of existing and new sources of financing and implementation mechanisms
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Anticipated tasks
Global ICT Development Strategy: building national strategies
177 days
60 days
Goal: Complement private sector publication by focusing on opportunities offered by developing countries markets, identifying sector where Official Development Assistance (ODA) is needed as
opposed to areas where private SME, in particular, can perform in profitable niches.
This publication will also maintain a catalogue of technical, economic and financial ratios and trends that will help developing countries set realistic objectives.
Actions:
• Compile and complement available studies;
• Organize every [year][two years] an "ICT Opportunity Forum" targeting national and international business community as well as national policy makers and ODA providers
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Global ICT initiatives stock taking
40 days
Goal: Keep a global reference of significant ICT-based initiatives taken by organizations and countries in order to facilitate propagation of best practices and links between Human Development
achievements and Information Society.
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Visit GDC main International Organization partners
20 days
Goal: Consult with main stakeholders at the international level in order to confirm their involvement in GDC as well as how they would share its costs.
Actions visit or discuss with the following organizations:
• OECD (national strategies);
• UNESCO(education strategies);
• EUROPEAN COMMISSION(Country Strategic Documents and Environment);
• THE WORLD BANK(Environment and dispute settlement);
• ICC(involvement of private sector);
• UNTACD(Strategies on e-commerce);
• UNDP(linking Digital Index with HDI);
• WTO(market orientation);
• WIPO (open/free sources);
• WHO (e-health strategies);
• ...
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Task Name
Finalize GDC brochure
Duration
20 days
The final document will be published as a brochure during WSIS and posted on the Web right after WSIS-Geneva
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Build ICT4D model to assessing impact of ICT on MDG
60 days
Goal: Regular assessment of impact of ICT on Human Development. Indicators based on volumes and values of ICT services will be complemented by thorough analysis of their impact on poverty
reduction.
Actions:
• Build the ICT4D model (a set of ratios showing how combinations of e-services/applications impacts variables used in the calculation of human development index;
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H-WTDC-06 Preparation
RPM-EUR
248 days
3 days
Regional preparatory meeting for Europe
10
RPM-ASP
3 days
Regional preparatory meeting for Asia
11
RPM-ARB
3 days
Regional preparatory meeting for Arab region
12
RPM-AM
3 days
Regional preparatory meeting for America
13
RPM-AFR
3 days
Regional preparatory meeting for Africa
14
WTDC coordination meeting
3 days
Inter-regional coordination meeting
15
WDTC-06
10 days
World Telecommunications development Conference 2006
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19
H-WSIS Events
Prepcom3
WSIS-Geneva
Assessing impact of ICT on MDG
570 days
10 days
3 days
40 days
Goal: Regular assessment of impact of ICT on Human Development. Indicators based on volumes and values of ICT services will be complemented by thorough analysis of their impact on poverty
reduction.
Actions:
• assess development of ICT;
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test the ICT4D model on Human Development Index and fine tune its constants;
on the basis of the findings suggest suggest 4 years ICT development objectives.
WSIS-Tunis
Policies and Regulatory Environment
regulatory framework
3 days
60 days
60 days
Goal: Assess the evolution of regulatory frameworks in developing countries and update them on trends and best practices that could strengthen and enhance existing regulatory bodies. Encourage
the creation of regulatory bodies in countries that have not yet established a separate body for regulation.
Actions: (25g, 25k)
• Organize the Global Symposium for Regulators (GSR). The GSR fosters cooperation among national regulatory authorities around the globe and seeks to encourage dialogue between regulators
and key stakeholders including private sector, investors and consumers; to be organized once a year if resources are available
• Conduct an annual regulatory survey. Means of gathering latest regulatory/policy information from ITU member states. Nine years of data collected. Serves as basis for analysis of regulatory
trends in the sector
• Publish the Trends in Telecommunication Reform on an annual basis. Published on an annual basis and contains an analysis of regulatory trends. Each year the publication identifies good practices
and success stories in using regulatory reform to achieve ICT development.
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effective regulation model policies
60 days
Goal: Empower national regulatory bodies by providing necessary skills and tools needed to improve efficiency and effectiveness.
Actions: 12e
• Develop and promote appropriate policies and tools
• Conduct studies of different approaches identifying advantages and disadvantages;
• Models developed based on studies;
• Training (both face to face and on-line) using the tools, models and case studies;
• Continuing support provided by the Global Regulators Exchange (GREX)
• effective implementation included among peer review targets.
IsAP Programmes 1, 2 and 4 are already contributing to it, but a series of sub regional workshops organized with other international bodies (ex.: World Bank) could be added
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Consensus building and effective dispute settlement mechanisms
60 days
Goal: Create a trustworthy, transparent, and non-discriminatory legal, regulatory and policy environment; establish an effective dispute settlement system which includes alternative dispute resolution
as a means of settling disputes promptly.
Actions: 25f
• Finalize the ITU and World Bank study on innovation in dispute resolution techniques.
• Organize Training courses for regulators, policy makers and operator based on the study and use of relevant tools, pending the available budgetary resources;
• Create and manage a searchable multi-language/alphabet database of regulatory decisions.
Programme 1 and 4 of IsAP already contribute to it, but combined efforts with other bodies like the World Bank could help optimise use of available resources.
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Readiness
617 days
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Task Name
Mutual commitments and peer review
Duration
60 days
Goal: Agree with governments a set of key commitments as an indicator of their real ownership of initiatives affecting their jurisdiction. A mechanism to review them has to be created and agreed.
Actions: 16a, 16b, 16c, 18e, 18h, 19a,25, 28, ...
• prepare sets of actions governments might wish to commit themselves to as counterpart of international community support;
• negotiate results and mechanisms with countries and organizations;
• organize annual regional peer reviews;
• consolidate a global review once every four years and include it in the agenda of the next World Telecommunications Development Conference
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Network infrastructure development
Partnerships for End-users: Model international partnerships for regional initiatives
350 days
60 days
Goal: Create a real "compact" of organizations, considering their competence, in order for each of them to contribute appropriately to ICT-based initiatives, programmes and projects identified in support
of the MDGs.
Actions: 10c,c18c,18d,18f, 18g, 25b, 32b, 44a
• prepare a partnership grid taking into account services/applications and specific actions in relation with organizations competences;
• organize a roundtable of organizations with a view to deciding cooperation mechanisms and review the "Global digital Compact"
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Global Short term initiatives for Information Society
120 days
Goal: Implement activities known as being a matter for international organizations. One could mention:
• Global standards;
• IP-Networks resources and security governance;
• Open/Free sources policies;
Actions:
• Global IP-based network nodes standardization task force;
• Task force on Internet governance (including network security, spasm and cyber crime) and IP address resources management;
• Finalize studies on equitable internet transit and interconnection cost sharing
• Task force on Open/Free sources policies;
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Information Society Model national strategies
80 days
Goal: In a market oriented environment, define a model development strategy that includes ICT as one of the delivery tools for social services.
The dissemination of such a model should be combined with effort undertaken by other bodies at national level in order to prepare Country Strategic Documents (CSD).
Actions: 11h,12c,18e,25a,25g,32a
• Task force to draft a development model including use of ICT;
• Sub-regional workshops on CSD drafting and inclusion of ICT
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Regional/national short term initiatives: Connectivity Now
230 days
Goal: Focus on least served countries who have joined the peer review group, analyse their needs and resources and , where appropriate, combine public and private resources in order to accelerate
network infrastructure development.
Actions: 11f, 12b, 44b, 11g
on the basis of regional/sub-regional initiatives identified in IsAP, organize international cooperation in order to :
• confirm the connectivity needs;
• identify actions/projects;
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raised public and private interests;
support execution.
Regional/national short term initiatives: ICT services/applications business and social models: Digital opportunities
190 days
Goal: Develop and deploy business (real costs) and social (opportunity costs) models for e-services/applications in order to facilitate evaluation of corresponding projects in national strategies.
Actions: 10b, 12b, 44b
• confirm e-services/applications immediately needed by each of countries concerned;
• identify solutions and requirements;
• raise public and private interest;
• support execution.
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Forward looking technologies and global standards
140 days
Goal: Keep network planning professionals informed of innovative solutions as well as global standards that can support low cost services.
Actions : 13a,25l,26
could include regional seminars on:
• IP-based network nodes;
• IP-base network access;
• Wireless and wireline solutions;
• New Generation Networks
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Cooperation for Regional Network access points
345 days
Goal: Promote regional Internet Access Points where applicable. In some cases ODA might be necessary for a limited time in order to maintain costs low and boost usage.
Actions:13b,13d,13e
• confirm regional Internet Access points needs and opportunities;
• identify regional promoters;
• encourage international partnerships;
• support implementation.
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Capacity building in and with ICT
ICT curriculum
480 days
120 days
Goal: Revise educational curriculum in order to include as early as possible ICT as a topic.
Actions: 19a, 20b
(to be defined with UNESCO)
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Centres of Excellence on ICT
24 mo
Goal: Train managers and decision-makers and create local excellence on priority issues ranging from telecommunications/ICT policy and regulation, to new technologies, including business and human
resources management and development
Actions: 10e, 19b,19d,20j,21
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Task Name
Internet Training Centres
Duration
24 mo
Goal: multiplying ICT knowledge as widely as possible in communities
Action: 20e,
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Raising national awareness/ownership
ICT for Human Development
75 days
60 days
Goal: Create a strong basis for ICT inclusion advocacy and liase with NGOs in order to vulgarise, induce confidence and build ownership.
Action: 20a
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Open Administration model strategies
60 days
Goal: Promote use of ICT by business community and government in their relations with the public.
Actions: 32c
The ITU experience gathered on network security infrastructure for e-government should be used in combination with lessons learned for other initiatives in order to:
• Build delivery models;
• Include e-administration in country strategies;
• Gain governments ownership;
• Provide ODA
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Funding Universal Services/Access
Global and national Digital Solidarity Funds
120 days
30 days
Goal: Define the mechanism by which main donors contribute to GDC. It will be necessary to respond to the following questions in particular:
Actions: 48b
create a task force which will address the issues listed below
• management of the fund by the ITU;
• Fund raising mechanism;
• conditions to meet(activities funded; beneficiaries)
• selection of beneficiary countries;
• programme/project appraisal;
• link with national digital solidarity funds;
• reporting.
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Universal Service Obligations funding mechanisms
30 days
Goal: Identify and promote mechanisms by which obligations that governments in developing countries have to make networks available, accessible and affordable will be fulfilled without prejudice to
fairness of competition where applicable.
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Task Name
Technologies and global standards for low cost access (ALL STARS)
Duration
120 days
Goal: Promote global standards and innovative technologies for network equipments with a view to promoting interconnectivity and interoperability and providing low cost access
Actions:11b, 11d,11e,11i,11j,12e
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Local content
Bridging the language barrier
Status of researches on languages processing and possible international cooperation
535 days
535 days
535 days
Goal: Impulse researches about language processing (real time translation and interpretation) in order to open the networked world to all human kind, taking into account differences in countries needs.
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Collecting, formatting, publishing maintaining local data
535 days
Goal: Make local content available and accessible to all.
Action: 16b
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Usage
Peer-To-peer services development strategies
480 days
480 days
Goal: Support development of peer-to-peer services where a network is available in particular in places where voice services are under developed.
Actions:
• conduct market studies
• promote projects to public and private sectors
• support projects implementation
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e-Services / Applications projects and programmes
480 days
Goal:
Actions:10b,11c,19e,19f,32
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