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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. |
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X Infopoverty WoRLD CONFERENCE how technologies can defeat poverty and achieve the Millennium Development Goals 18-19 March 2010 New York, UN Headquarters Milan, European Parliament Office |
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On the occasion of its 10th edition, the Infopoverty World Conference 2010 plans to present the great issues the digital revolution is bringing forth, both analyzing the phenomena that have changed lives in the last 10 years and illustrating the open options that can become crucial opportunities for sustainable development and the achievement of the MDGs. The Conference will have a dynamic perspective, so to convey to the participants the awareness that future depends on the choices we make today and give them the tools to evaluate and decide. As a matter of fact, as the past 10 years have seen the Digital Revolution grow and become one of the key factors of development in industrialized markets, the coming 10 years will mark a fundamental step in the impetuous process of the digital revolution, which lead towards virtuous ends or, if let on its own, can cause damages, similar to the World Wars and the weapons of mass destruction produced by the entelechy of the Industrial Revolution. As development is governed by different pushes, key decision makers as well as representatives from international organizations, business entities, research and development center, universities, NGOs and the civil society will gather to suggest and present on how to drive this process towards specific goals, such as the MDGs that, thanks to innovation in tools and services could be more easily achieved. This is the message that the organizers - OCCAM, the European Parliament and the Global Alliance for ICT and Development, the UN institution that gathers the most important stakeholders of technological innovation - are willing to share with all participants. The Conference will be set a synthesis of the results achieved by new technologies in the last decade, and the goals set for that to come, giving also insights on research policies, killer applications ready to be implemented on a wide scale. Aim of the event is to raise awareness on the transformations the Digital Revolution is creating, and the contribution innovation and new technologies have towards the achievement of the MDGs. The Conference, therefore, will not just portray the present state of art in innovation, but also the coming steps and future developments, further catalyzing the efforts of GAID within the UN system and the wider ICT4D world. |
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To partecipate to the Conference: |
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Speaker Submit your concept paper to occam@occam.org before February 19, 2010 Attendance To register, please fill the Form and return it to tedescol@un.org |
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