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Regional Workshop on Follow-up to WSIS and Integration of ICT Policies and Strategies in the Development Process
29-31 May 2006
Bangkok

The Regional Workshop on Follow-up to WSIS and Integration of ICT Policies and Strategies in the Development Process was held at Bangkok on 29-31 May 2006. The meeting was attended by the representatives of the following countries: Bangladesh, China, India, Nepal, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Viet Nam. Representatives from UNCTAD, UNDP-APDIP, ITU and APT also participated in the meeting.

The main objectives of the meeting were:

  • Ensuring that concerns related to ICT are incorporated in the process of national development policy-making, planning and programming.
  • Promoting and develop ICT policies and strategies in consonance with the objectives/targets set out in the MDGs and action-lines of the Plan of Action and Tunis Agenda of the WSIS process.
  • Facilitating coordination among national ministries and agencies dealing with the sectorial aspects of ICT so as to ensure the multisectoral integration of mutually supportive policy-making, planning and programming regarding ICT and sustainable economic and social development, and
  • Highlighting priority areas that apply across the participating countries.

Report

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Report on the Regional Workshop on Follow-up to WSIS and Integration of ICT Policies and Strategies in the Development Process 199

Documents

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Opening Statement by Mr Siva Thampi, Director, Information, Communication and Space Technology Division, UNESCAP 28
List of Participants 53
Tentative Programme 20

Presentations

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ITU's Global & Asia-Pacific Regional Follow-up of the WSIS 870
Incorporating ICT policy concerns and multisectoral integration in the national development process 67
Follow-up to WSIS and integration of ICT policies and strategies in the development process in participating countries:
Country paper: Bangladesh 169
Country paper: China 440
Country paper: Nepal 211
Country paper: Philippines 260
ICT policies and strategies aimed at implementing the MDG and WSIS objectives 77
ICT indicators for measuring the Information Society: the UNCTAD experience 778
Developing ICT policies and strategies to facilitate emergence of sustainable knowledge societies 36
Voice over Internt Protocol Regulation in Japan 120
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