THE UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA

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THE UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA

• Tanzania Parliamentarians Network on ICT for
  Development
• WSIS DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES PLAN OF ACTION
  AND WAY FORWARD
• 30 January 2005
• By Dr. Batilda Salha Burian/ Prof. H. Mgombelo
  (MP)

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THE NETWORK ON ICT for DEVELOPMENT

• TOPIC FOR DISCUSSION
• What is an Information Society?
• WSIS objectives and goals
• Declaration of Principles
• Plan of Action and Targets
• Way forward
• Conclusions

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THE NETWORK ON ICT for DEVELOPMENT

• What is an Information Society?
• A people centred, inclusive and development
• oriented society where everyone can create,
• access, utilise and share information and
• knowledge, enabling individuals, communities
  and peoples to achieve their full potential in
  promoting their sustainable development and
  improving their quality of life..

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• WSIS A Background
• The Resolution 73 of the ITU Plenipotentiary
  Conference in Minneapolis, USA in 1998
• Requested the United Nations General Assembly
  (UNGA) to convene the World Summit on the
  Information Society (WSIS)
• Resolution 56/183 of the UNGA in December 2001
• Agreed to convene the WSIS under the Secretary
  General of the United Nations.

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• WSIS A Background Contd
• WSIS Geneva Phase10-12 December 2003.
• Adopted Declaration of Principles and Plan of
  Action of the Information Society.
• WSIS Tunis Phase 16-18 November 2005

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• Why WSIS?
• To address the challenges of the
  Information revolution .
• To provide a platform for all key
  stakeholders to develop a common vision and a
  concrete Plan of Action on how to increase and
  extend the benefits of ICT to the world
  community.
• To harness the potential of ICT for
  achievement of the MDGs of combating poverty and
  hunger, eliminating illiteracy , reducing infant
  mortality, balancing gender equality, combating
  HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases and ensuring
  environmental sustainability.

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• Information Society- Key Principles
• The Role of All Stakeholders in the Promotion of
  ICT for Development Foundation for the IS
• Connectivity
• Universal, equitable and affordable access
• Access to Information and Knowledge
• Freedom of expression and freedom of opinion
• A rich public domain
• Adoption of Open sources software applications
• The role of scientists, universities, academic,
  research and other institutions (eg.TGDLC)

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• Information Society- Key Principles Contd
• 3. Capacity Building
• All stages of Education
• Training and Human resource development
• Continuous and adult education
• Skills- ICT Manufacturing, Marketing and Usage
• The Role of All Stakeholders in Promotion of ICT
  for Development
• Government, and Parliament
• Private Sector
• Civil society,
• UN, other International Organizations
• Academia, and Media

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• Information Society- Key Principles Contd
• 5. . Capacity Building
• All stages of Education
• Training and Human resource development
• Continuous and adult education
• Skills- ICT Manufacturing, Marketing and Usage
• Building Confidence, Trust and Security in the
  Use of ICT
• Network and Information Security
• Cyber-security
• Privacy and consumer protection

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• Information Society- Key Principles Contd
• 7. Enabling Environment
• Policies, legal and regulatory framework
• Intellectual Property Protection
• Standardization
• Internet Governance
• ICT Applications benefits in all aspects of
  life
• E- Parliament
• Government,
• E- Commerce
• E-Health
• E-Agriculture
• E-culture

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• Information Society- Key Principles Contd
• 9. Culture and Local Content and Media
• Protection and promotion of Cultural identities
• Languages
• Cultural Heritage
• Media Pluralism of Information and diversity of
  media ownership
• Ethical Dimension of the Information Society
• Prevent abusive use of ICT,
• Respect Human rights and freedom of personal
  privacy
• 11. International and Regional Cooperation
• Financial, Technical assistance and
• Digital Solidarity

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• WSIS Objectives,Goals Targets to be achieved by
  2015
• a) Connect villages with ICTs by 2010 and
  establish community access points by 2015
• b) Connect universities 2005, colleges, secondary
  schools 2010 and primary schools with ICTs by
  2015
• c) Connect scientific and research centres with
  ICTs by 2005
• d) Connect public libraries cultural centres,
  museums, post offices and archives with ICTs by
  2006
• e) Connect health centres and hospitals with ICTs
  by 2005

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• WSIS Objectives Contd
• f) Connect all local and central govt departments
  by 2010 and establish websites and email
  addresses by 2005
• g) Adapt all primary and secondary schools
  curricula to meet the challenges of the
  Information Society
• h) Ensure all the worlds population have access
  to television by 2015and radio services by 2010
• i) Encourage the development of content and
  facilitate use of all world languages on the
  Internet
• j) Ensure that more than half of the worlds
  inhabitants have access to ICTs within their
  reach
• k) 90 of Africa population to be within wireless
  coverage by 2010 and 100 by 2015

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• ACTION LINES
• The Role of Stakeholders in Promotion of ICT4D
• - National e-strategies, including human
  resource capacity building to be developed by all
  countries by 2005
• - Each country to establish at least one
  functioning Public Private Partnership (PPP) or
  Multi-Sector Partnership (MSP) by 2005 as a
  showcase for future action

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• WSIS Pending Issues
• Internet Governance
• The control of the Internet by the private
  company ICANN
• Digital Solidarity Fund
• Lack of special fund for building an Information
  Society
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• Follow up of the WSIS pending issues
• To form a task force to prepare inputs of the
  Internet Governance and Digital Solidarity Fund
  to the United Nations Working Groups

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• Follow up of the WSIS pending issues
• To form a high level national Information Society
  Bureau
• To coordinate activities of the Information
  Society in the Country

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• THE WAY FORWARD
• At International Level
• To develop framework of processes, systems and
  structures to respond-
• WSIS /MDGs / IAP / Targets
• Responsible international bodies
• UNDP, The World Bank, ITU, UNESCO and UN

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• THE WAY FORWARD
• At Regional Level
• NEPAD and related Initiatives
• Regional bodies UNECA, ATU and AfDB
• Sub-regional level
• SADC initiatives on ICT
• The EAC development strategies
• EARPTO Initiatives

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• THE WAY FORWARD
• At National Level
• National ICT Policy and Its Implementation
  Strategies
• Government and other multi-stakeholders (Private
  sector, Civil Society, Media, Parliament,
  Academia etc.
• Establishing networks on ICT4D eg. ParlNet ICT4D
  Tanzania, Media Network on ICT4D, etc.

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• THE WAY FORWARD Contd
• Develop showcasing ICT programs and Projects
  agreed in WSIS (Geneva).
• Include gender equality as a goal within
  analyses, assessments, discussions, conferences
  and other preparatory events for the summit this
  is together with the need of people with
  disabilities, minority groups etc.

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• Thank you
• for
• your Attention!!!!

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