ECA ministers strongly endorse role of information and private sector in Africa's development
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African Ministers responsible for economic and social development and planning ended a 5-day meeting with a set of resolutions and a declaration on accelerating trade and investment in the region in which they strongly endorsed the role of information and the private sector in Africa's development. The Global Information Infrastructure Commission (GIIC) strongly supports the forward looking thinking of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) in its call for active and on-going private sector participation in the implementation of the African Information Society Initiative (AISI). The GIIC statement focuses on: The Information Revolution is partially driven by information and communications technologies (ICTs) and is fundamentally important for all societies around the world; The ICT revolution is especially important for developing countries and their people; While a modern imperative for all countries, diffusing ICT effectively and equitably, is neither easy nor automatic; We support and encourage the ECA's commitment to adopt a concrete implementation plan for the AISI as plans for National Information and Communications Infrastructure (NICI) within each African country.
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“United Nations. Economic Commission for Africa. (1997-05). ECA ministers strongly endorse role of information and private sector in Africa's development. Addis Ababa:. © UN. ECA,. https://hdl.handle.net/10855/32416”Collections
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