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Opportunities WSIS - Action Lines
- Cooperation and partnerships among all
stakeholders;
- Infrastructure essential foundation;
- Access to Information and knowledge;
- Capacity Building;
- Building confidence and security in the
use of ICTs
- Enabling environment
- ICT Applications for the benefit of all: E-
services;
- Cultural and linguistic diversity;
- Media;
- Ethical dimensions;
- International and regional cooperation
WSIS – Goals
- Connectivity with ICTs for villages,
universities, colleges, secondary schools and primary schools, scientific and research centres, public libraries, cultural centres, museums, post offices and archives, health centres and hospitals, community access points;
- Connect all local and central government
departments and establish websites and email addresses
- Adapt all primary and secondary school
curricula to meet the challenges of the Information Society taking into account national circumstances
- Ensure that all of the world’s population have
access to television and radio services
- Ensure that more than half the world’s
inhabitants have access to ICTs within their reach
- Encourage the development of content and
put in place technical conditions in order to facilitate use of all world languages on the Internet
India’s Position
- Enabling policy and regulatory regime,
private investment, open market competition, and wireless technologies have been the key drivers for growth of telecommunication network and services in urban areas
- IT software and ITeS continue to
dominate.
- Content in regional languages is
available.
- Government has taken lead in E-services
(SWAN project implementation with PPP).
- WSIS goals likely to be met far ahead of
- time. Telcos are planning migration to Next
Generation Networks
- Telecom demand projections to 2015: Teledensity (M) 70%, Est. Investment US$ 40
billion
- Mobile services, Broadband access, Rural communication, IT Software and IT Hardware
production to be the growth areas.
