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OUR MISSION:
Infopoverty is a common platform aiming at fighting poverty through the innovative use of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), able to provide broadband services such as telemedicine, e-learning, e-government, etc. to disadvantaged communities. Infopoverty is a Programme born in the ambit of the United Nations and coordinated by OCCAM, the Observatory for Cultural and Audiovisual Communication created by UNESCO in 1997. The Infopoverty Programme involves more than 100 international institutions that have taken part, in various forms, in the Infopoverty World Conference.

VIII Infopoverty World Conference

“Low Cost-Smart technologies to fight poverty and save the planet ”  will be held on April 16,17 and 18 2008 at the UN Headquarters in New York, at the Politecnico in Milan, and in other seats connected by videoconference.

It is high time that all stakeholders actively participate in enhancing the crucial role that the ICTs can have in achieving the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals and that private entities understand the products’ needs of final users in developing countries to tailor suited them to the disadvantaged conditions in which most of them live: lack of electricity and safe water, low rates of alphabetization, cultural differences.

Thus developing countries could become the avant-garde of the Digital Revolution at the highest possible technological level.

The Conference aims to advance the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals and, in particular,supports programmes for alleviating poverty through information and communication technologies and empowering women and indigenous people to take a more active role.

It is being organized by the Observatory for Cultural and Audiovisual Communication (OCCAM) with the support of the Secretariat of the Global Alliance for ICT and Development, under the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, and of the European Parliament, Infopoverty Institute – University of Oklahoma, and the Politecnico di Milano.

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If you are interested in one of the subject areas listed below, submit your concept paper proposal sending an email to: roberto.rossi@occam.org


HOW TO FIGHT POVERTY THROUGH A CORRECT USE OF ICT?

MICROCREDIT AND E-BANKING, AS TOOLS TO WIDEN THE MARKETS

NEW FACTORS OF DEVELOPMENT ACCELLERATION: SATELLITE PIATFORMS AND INTERNET 2

DIGITAL AND RENEWABLE ENERGIES: A VIRTUOUS CIRCLE ICT PROJECTS FOR SUSTENABLE DEVELOPMENT

PROMOTION OF CULTURAL DIVERSITY, AS SOCIAL RESOURCE

WHO WILL HANDLE THE NEW ORDER OF GLOBALISATION?

NEW SUBJECTS: GREATER EUROPE, SOVRANATIONAL INSTITUTIONS, CIVIL SOCIETY, REGIONAL CONVERGENCES

CAN THE PRESENT MARKET FACE GROWING DEMANDS FROM EMERGING COUNTRIES?

WHICH OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE ITALIAN ED EUROPEAN INDUSTRY?

SATELLITE AND TERRESTRIAL BROADBAND: WHICH PERSPECTIVES FOR DIGITAL SERVICES?

NEW KIT FOR GLOBAL COMMUNICATION:
WHICH ARE THE MOST INNOVATIVE BEST PRACTICES IN THE FIELDS OF TELEMEDICINE, E-COMMERCE, DISTANT LEARNING, TELE-CONSULTING, E-GOVERNMENT, E-WORK, SERVICES FOR DISABLED PEOPLE?

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