With a goal of connecting all villages, schools, hospitals and governments by 2015 to put half the world’s people within reach of information and communication technology (ICT), the U.N. opened the first-ever global summit on information in Geneva, Switzerland this week. International issues such as socioeconomic divisions, censorship and governance all have been highlighted and intensified by the Internet, which U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan called a tool to be leveraged against world issues such as illiteracy and poverty.
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Global Leaders Contemplate Internet World at U.N. Summit
Posted by: Jay Lyman December 10, 2003 01:50 PMWith a goal of connecting all villages, schools, hospitals and governments by 2015 to put half the world’s people within reach of information and communication technology (ICT), the U.N. opened the first-ever global summit on information in Geneva, Switzerland this week. International issues such as socioeconomic divisions, censorship and governance all have been highlighted and intensified by the Internet, which U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan called a tool to be leveraged against world issues such as illiteracy and poverty.