Building Digital Bridges
This report looks at efforts by stakeholders at the local, national and international level to bridge the digital divide. It reviews the role of new technologies, multi-stakeholder partnerships and ICT indices in reducing the gap, taking an in-depth look at the cases of Australia, Hong Kong, India, Korea (Rep. of) and Malaysia. The report also proposes a methodology for the development of a composite Digital Opportunity Index (DOI).
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Chairman's Reports
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU), together with the Korea Agency for Digital Opportunity and Promotion (KADO), jointly organized the 1st Digital Bridges Symposium September 10-11, 2004 in Busan, Korea on the occasion of Asia Telecom 2004. Some 105 participants took part in the meeting, representing a range of regulatory agencies and policy-making bodies, operators, manufacturers, industry analysts, user representatives academics and others. Dr Larry Press, Professor of Information Systems at California State University, Dominguez Hills, chaired the meeting.