EXPERT MEETING
Organized in the framework of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) follow-up and implementation, this meeting will showcase the impact of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) on economic development and growth with a view to encourage action at the national, regional and global levels to implement the WSIS outcomes. It follows up on the outcomes of the WSIS Thematic Meeting on the "Economic and Social Impact of ICTs" held in Guatemala in January 2005.
OBJECTIVES
To present and discuss the latest empirical evidence on the impact of ICTs on firm productivity and competitiveness, trade, employment and, as a result, accelerated economic growth, in particular in developing countries.
-
To contribute to the debate on the role of ICTs for poverty reduction, in the context of the follow-up to the World Summit held in New York in September 2005.
-
To provide policy makers with hard facts about the benefits of ICTs for economic development, to better target national and global policy formulation.
-
To contribute to the WTO discussions on e-commerce and the impact of ICTs on multilateral trade agreements.
-
To mainstream gender issues into the discussion.
-
To consider the impact of ICTs on business sectors, such as trade finance.
-
To provide a basis for inputs to the Information Economy Report 2007.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Experts from both developed and developing countries, representatives of governments, the civil society, the academia and the private sector involved in the knowledge-based economy research and policy making.
ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION
For substantive
questions about the Expert Meeting contact
the UNCTAD ICT and E-business Branch or Diana Korka, Assistant Economic Affairs
Officer, at .
For more information
about the Expert Meeting, including nominations, participation and
registration,
please consult the official
expert meeting website.
A copy of the completed
registration form should be sent to:
UNCTAD secretariat, Intergovernmental Affairs and Outreach
Service
Palais des Nations, CH-1211 Geneva 10
Switzerland
fax: +41 22 917 0056
e-mail: correspondence@unctad.org
Registration
form: (pdf)
or (png)
(English); (pdf)
or (png)
(French)
Map
of the UN Palais des Nations:
(png) or (jpg)
format.
Hotel
list: (Excel) or (Openoffice
1.0) or (OpenDocument) format
Map
of hotels
near the UN Palais des Nations: (png)
or (jpg) format.
Documents
Non-English documents are
available from the
official UNCTAD Expert Meeting webpage.
Background documents and
publications from the co-organizing organizations are available on
the Links page.
