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.
IWC2008 Agenda
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you are interested in one of the subject areas listed below,
submit your concept paper proposal sending an email to:
roberto.rossi@occam.org
