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Features
Creating content: A lonely road out there
Frederick Noronha
Role of media and communication: New possibilities for local content distribution
Rosa M. Gonzalez
Rural Bazar: Promoting local content in global market
K. J. Balan, S. P. Nautiyal
Information Systems for rural communities: Content Management System for communities
G. L. Ganga Prasad
Pan Localisation regional initiative: Developing local language computing
Sarmad Hussain
Columns
Quiz
Book Review
Frederick Noronha
Insight: Local content, local people, local languages
Tori Holmes and Britt Jorgensen
'ICTs for poor' Quiz Answers
What's on
In Fact: The world of languages
Rendezvous
GKP Annual Meeting
Global ICT Summit 2004
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11-15 May 2004, Hong Kong

Global ICT Summit 2004




As we all know that Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have great potential for the development of any society world over. What it needs is the unaffected flow of information and unfettered interactions between the ICT communities to share their experiences, ideas and opinions for the development. Hence, it is very important that conferences and summits should take place all over the world. Global ICT Summit organized by Internet Professionals Association Limited (iProA) indubitably severed the purpose of bringing the minds at a single common platform for development.

In the short few days of the Summit there were 91 speeches delivered to a total of 1,162 participants. ICT Ministers and Secretaries from 9 countries together with over 70 renowned speakers from 22 countries were able to share their view and experiences on best practices in e-Content and e-Creativity that will shape the future of global ICT development. 

They covered a wide range of subjects such as “Corporate social responsibility and the digital divide” which broadened the spectrum of building a true information society.  Moreover, opportunities were presented to forge global partnerships for development between governments, the private sector, civil society, and the United Nations system. 

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