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-----Original Message-----
From: "Gopi Pradhan" <gopi@apdip.net>
To: <info@apnic.net>
Subject: Asian Forum on ICT Policies and e-Strategies
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 18:38:26 +0800

Asian Forum on ICT Policies and e-Strategies

The Kuala Lumpur Declaration on ICT Policies and e-Strategies in Asia
and the Pacific was endorsed by high-level Asian delegates at the
recently concluded Asian Forum on ICT Policies and e-Strategies, as
Asia-Pacific input to the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) to
be held in Geneva in December 2003. The Forum was organized by the
United Nations Development Programme's Asia-Pacific Development
Information Programme (UNDP-APDIP) under the auspices of the United
Nations Information and Communication Technology Task Force. It was
supported by the Ministry of Energy, Communications and Multimedia,
Malaysia and sponsored by the Government of Japan.

The 17 point declaration reflects the views of delegates comprising
Ministers and senior government officials, as well as private sector and
civil society representatives from 22 countries in the Asia Pacific
region, and as well as regional and international organizations. To
ensure the views of developing nations of the Asia-Pacific region are
not marginalized in the international discussions on formulating
guidelines towards the Information Society at WSIS, emphasis was placed
on specific policies on poverty reduction and the Millennium Development
Goals (MDGs), governance, gender, infrastructure and access, human
resources, content and applications, enterprises and entrepreneurs, and
regional co-operation. The specific needs and interests of least
developed countries, landlocked and developing island nations of the
Asia-Pacific region were also highlighted.

Details are available at www.apdip.net/asian-forum.



Gopi PRADHAN (gopi@apdip.net)

UNDP-APDIP

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia