Presentation of Dr' Kim HakSu, United Nations UnderSecretaryGeneral, and Executive Secretary United

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Presentation of Dr. Kim Hak-Su,United Nations
Under-Secretary-General, and Executive
SecretaryUnited Nations Economic and Social
Commission for Asia and the Pacificat
theHigh-level Panel onRegional Perspectives for
the Global Information Society16 November 2005,
1300 to 1500 hoursWorld Summit on the
Information SocietyTunis, Tunisia16 to 18
November 2005
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Millennium Development Goals inAsia and the
Pacific

• UNESCAP report on A Future Within Reach
• Dramatic progress in poverty reduction. The
  absolute number of poor dropped from 931 to 679 M
  (1990 to 2001)
• Good progress in achieving universal primary
  education empowering women
• Mixed progress in reducing child mortality
  ensuring environmental sustainability
• Low progress in improving maternal health
  combating diseases

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ICT in Asia and the Pacific

• Widest digital divide most diverse in ICT use
  and
• application
• Global ICT leaders Japan, Republic of Korea
• Dynamic ICT countries China, India, Malaysia,
  Philippines, Singapore
• Less ICT developed countries some LDCs, LLDCs
  and Pacific island countries
• Post-conflict countries

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ICT to promote MDGs

• Geneva Declaration of Principles Our
  challenge is to harness the ICT to promote
  development goals of the Millennium
  Declaration.
• United Nations Secretary-General The
  new information and communications technologies
  are new tools for development.

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UNESCAP Programme for Bridging the Digital
Divide

• Enhance ICT contribution to development MDGs
  achievement
• Develop human resources for ICT
• Promote public-private partnership
• Share best practices
• Create enabling policy environment for ICT
  application
• Strengthen knowledge-based disaster management
• Focus on PICs, LDCs, LLDCs and economies in
  transition

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Thank you