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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=FR link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p align=center style='margin-top:.25in;text-align:center'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>UN Broadband Commission for Digital Development releases first global broadband report<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:center'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Broadband deployment accelerating worldwide,<br>but prices still need to come down<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Paris, 24 September,</span></b><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> 2012</span></b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'> – The </span><a href="http://www.broadbandcommission.org/"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Broadband Commission for Digital Development</span></a><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'> <span lang=EN-GB>has released its first-ever country-by-country snapshot of the state of broadband deployment worldwide.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:11.0pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The </span><a href="http://www.broadbandcommission.org/Documents/bb-annualreport-embargo.pdf"><i><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>State of Broadband 2012: Achieving Digital Inclusion for All</span></i></a><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> report evaluates the roll-out of broadband around the world and tracks progress towards achieving the </span><a href="http://www.broadbandcommission.org/Documents/Broadband_Targets.pdf"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>four targets</span></a><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> set by the Commission in 2011 for boosting broadband affordability and uptake. It provides country rankings across up to 177 economies on affordability, national broadband policy, and connecting people and dwellings.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:11.0pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:11.0pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The report was released at the sixth meeting of the Commission, which was held today in New York to coincide with the 67<sup>th</sup> session of the UN General Assembly. It was </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzhzJteR8vM"><i><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>welcomed by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon</span></i></a><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>, who called broadband a “transformative technology that has the potential to spark advances across all three pillars of sustainable development: economic prosperity, social inclusion and environmental sustainability.” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:11.0pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:11.0pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The report reveals that while household Internet access has seen strong growth over the past year and is on track to achieve the Commission’s target for<i> Connecting Homes to Broadband</i>, individual Internet use continues lag behind. ITU analysts believe that mobile broadband could prove the platform for achieving the boost needed to get progress back on track – at end 2011, there were already almost twice as many mobile broadband subscriptions as fixed connections.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:11.0pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:11.0pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>“Broadband networks and services are transforming our way of life. The Broadband Commission is committed to ensuring that the benefits of broadband are available to all. I am delighted by the dedication and enthusiasm shown by the many senior business leaders and top policy-makers on the Commission to advancing the global broadband policy agenda,” said ITU Secretary-General Dr Hamadoun I. Touré.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:11.0pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:11.0pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The report notes a strong linguistic shift now taking place online. If current growth rates continue, it says, the number of Internet users accessing the Internet in languages other than English (predominantly, in Chinese) will overtake English language users by 2015.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>“Languages are people’s most valuable asset. They allow us to be heard, to learn and to communicate,” said the Director-General of UNESCO Irina Bokova. “Multilingualism on the Internet can be a great enabler for achieving the Millennium Development Goals and contributing to building knowledge societies,” she continued referring to UNESCO’s work to promote the production and access to all types of content – educational, scientific, cultural and recreational - in diverse formats and languages on the Internet.” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:11.0pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:11.0pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The Report goes on to outline a variety of ways in which broadband is improving the lives of people around the world, in m-health, distance education and m-learning, via m-payment systems, and in improving the lives of women, promoting innovation and fostering the acquisition of new skills. It also reinforces a clear need for policy leadership to facilitate the deployment of broadband around the world. Today, some 119 countries now have a national broadband plan or policy in place.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:11.0pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:11.0pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The <i>State of Broadband 2012 </i>report draws on ITU’s </span><a href="http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/index.html"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>extensive statistical evidence base</span></a><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <span lang=EN-GB>and is the result of close collaboration between Broadband Commissioners. Based on interviews, contributions and supporting material from more than 20 experts and their organizations, it highlights the importance of public private partnerships in accelerating change, presents twelve recommendations from the Commission to speed up the roll-out and deployment of broadband to accelerate progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and includes 24 ‘featured insights’ from the Commission, which comprises </span></span><a href="http://www.broadbandcommission.org/CommissionerListPage.aspx"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>60 leaders</span></a><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> from industry, government, international organizations and NGOs.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:11.0pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:11.0pt;background:white'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>How does your country rank? Download the full version of the <i>State of Broadband</i> report at: <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:11.0pt;background:white'><a href="http://www.broadbandcommission.org/Documents/bb-annualreport-embargo.pdf"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>http://www.broadbandcommission.org/Documents/bb-annualreport-embargo.pdf</span></a><span class=MsoHyperlink><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;line-height:11.0pt;background:white'><span class=MsoHyperlink><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p><span style='text-decoration:none'> </span></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>View a short motion graphic on the report:</span></b><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:11.0pt;background:white'><a href="http://www.broadbandcommission.org/work/events/6thmeeting.aspx"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>http://www.broadbandcommission.org/work/events/6thmeeting.aspx</span></a><span class=MsoHyperlink><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0in'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Download a short ‘highlights’ document at:</span></b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><a href="http://www.broadbandcommission.org/work/events/6thmeeting.aspx"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>http://www.broadbandcommission.org/work/events/6thmeeting.aspx</span></a><span class=MsoHyperlink><span lang=EN-GB 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