The Golden Book,
WSIS Stocktaking,
ICT Success Stories
International Telecommunication Union
Moderators/Facilitators’ Consultation Meeting
UNOG, Geneva, 24 February 2006
Presentation prepared for the official launch of the Golden Book.
For more information, please send an e-mail to wsis-stocktaking@itu.int
The Golden Book: Origins
 Swiss proposal during PrepCom-2 for a
“stakeholder commitments paper”, later
endorsed by Intergovernmental Bureau of
PrepCom.
 Questionnaire launched in October 2005
 Creation of the Golden Book database
 Invitation to all WSIS Stakeholders to submit
commitments and new initiatives
announced during the Tunis Phase of WSIS
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The Golden Book: Origins
 Database open for entries
from 20 October to 31 January 2006
 By 1 February, 378 commitments registered
 24 February 2006: official launch
The Golden Book Report
The Golden Book CD Rom
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378 Commitments
Breakdown of activities by entity
Scope of activities
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378 Commitments
Breakdown by type of activity
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378 Commitments
Timescale of activities
Breakdown by origin
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378
commitments
>
€ 3.2
billion
Amount of financial commitments by stakeholder
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378
commitments
>
€ 3.2
billion
Breakdown by anticipated expenditure
378 commitments
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378
commitments
>
€ 3.2
billion
Scale of
financial
commitments
by different
stakeholders
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Selected large commitments
Governments
 China: 'Cun Cun Tong' Project
 Villages Connected: The overall goal of this project is the realization
of universal access to telephone service in the nearly 70,000
villages having no telephone coverage.
 Egypt: The Million Book Project
 Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA) and its partners are working together
to demonstrate the project’s feasibility by digitizing one million
books within three years and publishing them as a searchable
collection on the internet. All project partners are providing content
to ensure that the collection is extensive, diverse and multilingual.
 Pan African E-Network Project
 The network should connect all 53 countries of the African Union to
provide effective communication and connectivity among these
countries.
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Selected commitments
Int’l and regional organisations
 European Union: GEANT2
 The European Union supports a broader policy to ensure the global reach of
research and education networks. It includes also the launching of concrete
initiatives to support developing regions in the world, in particular the
Mediterranean rim, Latin America and Asia via the projects EUMEDconnect,
ALICE and TEIN2, respectively.
 ITU: “Connect the World”
 Multi-stakeholder partnership launched in 2005 to work towards connecting
the estimated 800’000 villages worldwide still without ICTs.
 World Bank: Africa Regional Initiative
 Regional Communications Infrastructure Program in East and Southern
Africa is an investment and Technical Assistance (TA) project in support of
the liberalization of telecommunication markets in Eastern and Southern
African countries and the development of a modern fiber-optic backbone to
connect these countries to each other and the rest of the world.
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Selected commitments
Business Sector Entities
 INTEL Corporation: Intel Teach to the Future
 Intel Corporation will train an additional 10 million teachers in developing
nations over the next five years in the use of technology to enhance
learning. Intel also will donate 100,000 PCs to classrooms in developing
nations in order to improve learning skills.
 Microsoft: Telecentre.org
 Canada’s IDRC, Microsoft Corp and the Swiss SDC announced the launch of
telecentre.org, a collaborative initiative that will strengthen the capacity of
tens of thousands of community-based telecentres around the world.
 Sentech: Digital Terrestrial Television
Broadcasting in South Africa
 Digitisation of the Television Broadcasting infrastructure will enable systems
to seamlessly carry broadcasting, data and voice content efficiently. Digital
television broadcasting and, more specifically, digital terrestrial
broadcasting, opens up many possibilities for providing universal access on
a very broad basis.
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Selected commitments
Civil Society Entities
 Village Phone Replication Manual
Grameen Foundation USA
 GFUSA is working to spread the successful Village Phone model throughout the
developing world with the release of its Village Phone Replication Manual. The manual,
which draws from the experiences of Village Phone in both Bangladesh and Uganda,
provides a blueprint for bringing affordable, accessible telecommunications service to
poor, rural areas through microfinance.
 New Arabic Development Portal
Development Gateway Foundation
 Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA) and the Development Gateway Foundation will unveil plans
for a new Arabic language web portal on development. The portal aims to address the
existing shortage of development information for the Arab World.
 'One Dollar for Development'
FORMIT Foundation
 The ODFD initiative aims at making available at no cost e-Government applications
owned by developed countries to developing countries by encouraging North-South and
South-South cooperation as an effective contribution to development and as a means to
share and transfer good practices and technologies.
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WSIS Stocktaking
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Ongoing process
Collaborative database
Online questionnaire
More than 2’600 projects registered
Basis for future evaluation
Report on Stocktaking published at Tunis Summit
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WSIS Stocktaking: Future
 Tunis Agenda, paragraph 120
 “The sharing of information related to the implementation of WSIS
outcomes is an important element of evaluation. We note with
appreciation the report on the Stocktaking of WSIS-related activities,
which will serve as one of the valuable tools for assisting with the
follow-up, beyond the conclusion of the Tunis Phase of the Summit,
as well as the “Golden Book” of initiatives launched during the Tunis
phase. We encourage all WSIS stakeholders to continue to contribute
information on their activities to the public WSIS stocktaking
database, maintained by ITU. In this regard, we invite all countries
to gather information at the national level with the involvement of all
stakeholders, to contribute to the stocktaking.”
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WSIS Stocktaking: Future
 Tracking progress made in building the
Information Society
 Maintaining and improving the
Internet-based Stocktaking Database
 Encouraging all WSIS stakeholders to submit and
update descriptions of projects
 Establishing the necessary
links to moderators/facilitators to share and
exchange information efficiently
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WSIS Stocktaking: Future
 Raising awareness of the content of the
database among all WSIS stakeholders
through greater information and publicity
 Developing analytical tools and materials
emphasizing countries’ experiences and best
practices
 Publication of future editions of the
Stocktaking Report to present the efforts of all
stakeholders in WSIS implementation
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ICT Success Stories
 Interactive portal highlighting best
practices in the ICT sector
 Requested in the Plan of Action (para 28e)
 Web Portal components
- Database with more then 600 success stories
- Resources on ICT for development
 Criteria for project selection
- Focus on developing countries, multi-stakeholder
partnerships, successful outcome, innovative
approach, cross-sectoral-sector, targeting
vulnerable groups, etc
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Thank you very much for
Your attention!
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