Events

WSIS Thematic Meeting on Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships for Bridging the Digital Divide

06/23/2005 -- The objective of the Thematic Meeting is to provide a forum for the presentation of successful multi-stakeholder partnerships for bridging the digital divide and stimulating debate on the institutional, economic, political and social conditions that contribute to or impede their success. The meeting will also further encourage the development of a composite Digital Opportunity Index (DOI). During the event, an applied methodological proposal for measuring the core list of ICT indicators agreed upon at the WSIS Thematic Meeting in Geneva (7-9 February 2005) will be presented and discussed.

To this end, ITU and KADO will convene a group of policy makers, telecommunication providers, regulators, as well as representatives of the private sector, civil society and international organizations, serving in an individual capacity, who will discuss the best ways to:

Plan and implement multi-stakeholder partnerships to promote access and usage of ICTs for development goals

Develop a composite Digital Opportunity Index to measure the digital divide

Through these discussions, the workshop will attempt to build a guideline of best practices that can be used to promote multi-stakeholder partnerships throughout the world.

Potential issues for discussion include:

Possible structures of a composite index for measuring the digital divide

Best methods for measuring the digital divide

Kinds of variables that should be used

Variables to include

Ways to cluster variables

How should variables be combined and weighted

Robustness checking

Advantages and disadvantages of a composite index

Venue: Sheraton Grande WalkerHill Hotel, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Date: 23-24 June 2005

Hosts: Ministry of Information and Communication of the Republic of Korea (MIC) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

Organizer: Korea Agency for Digital Opportunity & Promotion (KADO)

Date: 06/23/2005
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Theme: Access, WSIS