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Meetings, Initiatives, Documents
- UNICTTF@WSIS, 15-18 November 2005, Tunis, Tunisia
- Global Roundtable Forum on "Innovation and Investment: Scaling Science and Technology to Meet the MDGs", New York, 13 September 2005
- Ninth Meeting of the UN ICT Task Force, 01 October 2005
- Third Annual Report of the UN ICT Task Force
- Eighth Meeting of the UN ICT Task Force, 13 - 15 April 2005
- Innovation and Investment: Information and Communication Technologies and the Millennium Development Goals - Report Prepared for the United Nations ICT Task Force in Support of the Science, Technologies and Innovation Task Force of the United Nations Millennium Project.
- Internet Governance: Definition, Governance Tools, Global Multi-stakeholder Entity, by Prof. Klaus W. Grewlich, Ambassador, German Federal Foreign Office, Member of the Panel of Advisors to the UN ICT Task Force
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In its fourth year, the Information and Communication Technologies Task Force, through its core activities, working groups and regional nodes, made a substantive contribution to the preparations for the Tunis phase of the World Summit on the Information Society by sponsoring several regional meetings, organizing a series of global forums, producing several publications and participating actively in events organized by other stakeholders; organized three high-level round tables linking information and communication technology (ICT) with science and technology and the Millennium Development Goals; and provided substantial input to the Partnership on Measuring ICT for Development through the working group on ICT indicators and Millennium Development Goals mapping. While the mandate of the Information and Communication Technologies Task Force expired at the end of 2005, the task of harnessing the potential of ICT for advancing development is not finished. The global alliance for ICT and development was recently approved by the Secretary-General, and its mission will be to facilitate and promote further integration of ICT with development activities, thus contributing to linking the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society with the broader United Nations development agenda.
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