<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><br><div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">ITU and Microsoft launch online platform to track ICT development<br>Support for ICT infrastructure and capacity building pledged at Connect
Africa Summit<br><br>Issued jointly by ITU and Microsoft<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>For full text see:<br> <a href="http://www.itu.int/newsroom/press_releases/2007/32.html" target="_blank">http://www.itu.int/newsroom/press_releases/2007/32.html
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