[kictanet] ITU and Microsoft launch online platform to track ICT development

[Rebecca Wanjiku]

ITU and Microsoft launch online platform to track ICT development
Support for ICT infrastructure and capacity building pledged at Connect
 Africa Summit

Issued jointly by ITU and Microsoft

Kigali, Rwanda, 29 October 2007 - ITU Global View, a virtual
 earth-based online platform to track and help accelerate the implementation of
 the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) goals in Africa was
 launched today on the opening day of the Connect Africa Summit.

Governments, along with industry, development banks and international
 organizations are gathered in Kigali to mobilize the human, financial
 and technical resources required to expand the development of ICT
 infrastructure and ensure it is used effectively in pursuit of the WSIS
 development goals for Africa.

For full text see:
  http://www.itu.int/newsroom/press_releases/2007/32.html










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