CONTENTS

I.          INTRODUCTION

II.        GUIDING PRINCIPLES AND KEY CONSIDERATIONS

III.       REGIONAL SPECIFICITIES

IV.       STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK

V.        PRIORITIES/THRUST AREAS OF WORK

A.    General Observations

B.    Special subregional requests

C.    WSIS action lines

D.    Internet governance

E.     Mobilizing resources – financing mechanisms for ICT for development

F.     Follow-up and evaluation

G.    Knowledge-based disaster management

VI.       TEHRAN DECLARATION ON BUILDING THE INFORMATION SOCIETY IN ASIA AND THE PACIFIC

VII.     REGIONAL ACTION PLAN – PROGRAMMES/PROJECTS AND METHODOLOGY FOR REGIONAL COOPERATION

A.    WSIS action lines

B.    Summary of actions

C.    Monitoring and evaluation

D.    Methodologies for regional cooperation

ANNEXES

I.          Tokyo Declaration – Asia-Pacific perspective on the World Summit

A.    Shared vision of the information society

B.    Recognizing the unique features of the information society in the Asia-Pacific region

C.    Advancing the region’s information society

D.    Conclusion

II.        Outcomes of the Expert Group Meeting and First Regional Conference

A.    Expert Group Meeting on Follow-up to the World Summit on the Information Society

B.    First Regional Conference on Follow-up to the First Phase and Preparation for the Second Phase of the World Summit on the Information Society

III.       Outcomes of the subregional conferences

A.    Bishkek Conference on the Information Society and Regional Cooperation in Information and Communication Technologies for Development

B.    Subregional Symposium on Information and Communication Technologies for Development in Pacific Island Developing Countries

C.    South-East and East Asia Conference on Follow-up to the First Phase and Preparation for the Second Phase of the World Summit on the Information Society

D.    South and South-West Asia Conference on Follow-up to the First Phase and Preparation for the Second Phase of the World Summit on the Information Society

IV.       An overview of survey results of WSIS targets and priorities

A.    Assessment of WSIS goals

B.    Priority-setting

V.        ORDIG policy brief and executive summary, “voices from Asia and the Pacific: Internet Governance priorities and recommendations”

VI.       Digital access index

VII.     Tokyo ubiquitous network conference “towards the realization of a ubiquitous network society”: Chairmen’s report

A.    Introduction

B.    WSIS and realization of a ubiquitous network society

C.    Towards the realization of a ubiquitous network society

D.    Conclusion

LIST OF TABLES

1.     Possibility of achieving the targets in the Pacific

2.     Possibility of achieving the targets in South-East and East Asia

3.     Possibility of achieving the targets in South and South-West Asia

4.     Proposed priority issues

5.     Result of the surveys on priority-setting

6.     Levels of priority