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<h2 align="center"><a href="http://www.itu.int/newsroom/press_releases/2009/16.html" target="_blank"><font size="4">President Lula of Brazil receives ITU Award</font></a></h2>
<h2 align="center"><font size="3">World Telecommunication and Information
Society Award for protecting children online</font></h2>
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</font></b><p><b><font size="2">Geneva, 15 June 2009 — </font></b><font size="2">President Luiz Inácio Lula
Da Silva of Brazil visited ITU today where he received the World
Telecommunication and Information Society Award.</font></p>
<p><font size="2">Accepting the award, President Lula said he was pleased to see international
recognition for the efforts of the Brazilian government to promote digital
inclusion and a safe and democratic virtual space, especially for children and
adolescents. "We are determined to fight digital exclusion, which is today one
of the major constraints in the quest for development," President Lula said. "To
reduce inequalities we need to increase access to modern communication
technologies to a larger number of people. Access to technologies should go
beyond the communications infrastructure dimension. People should be able to use
these technologies in a critical and interactive way. This is important to
promote the involvement of all people in the knowledge society."</font></p>
<p><font size="2">President Lula described measures by his government to promote digital
inclusion, such as connecting urban public schools to broadband Internet,
distributing portable computers to students and teachers in elementary public
schools and establishing telecentres where students can learn, study and
entertain themselves. He said Brazil has reduced taxes on IT solutions and
promoted open software to reduce cost and to build an inclusive people-centred
information society linked to development.</font></p>
<p><font size="2">President Lula congratulated ITU Secretary-General Dr Hamadoun Touré for
launching the Global Cybersecurity Agenda. He noted that the World Summit on the
Information Society (<a href="http://www.itu.int/wsis/index.html" target="_blank">WSIS</a>) had
given ITU a mandate to strengthen cybersecurity and said ITU is the right place
to coordinate this endeavour. He said, "The challenge of cybercrimes
demonstrates the importance of discussing and debating Internet governance. WSIS
concluded that Internet governance should be transparent and democratic with the
participation of governments and civil society. ITU should be part of this
effort."</font></p>
<p><font size="2">President Lula added, "In fighting paedophiles, ITU could define standards
that could be adopted by all countries. We need a multilateral instrument that
would stimulate effective international cooperation."</font></p>
<p><font size="2">World Telecommunication and Information Society Day (<a href="http://www.itu.int/wtisd/index.html" target="_blank">WTISD</a>)
brings attention to the potential of information and communication technologies
(ICT) in meeting the development and economic aspirations of societies and on
the importance of the Internet as a global resource. The theme for 2009 is
Protecting Children in Cyberspace.</font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 12px; margin-bottom: 12px;"><font size="2">WTISD marks the establishment of ITU in 1865.</font></p>
<p><font size="2">Welcoming President Lula to ITU, Secretary-General Hamadoun Touré noted that
Brazil became a Member State of ITU in 1877. "Brazil and ITU have enjoyed a long
and fruitful partnership, based on shared values of multilateralism and
respect," Dr Touré said. "In 1906, following the invention of radio, Brazil was
one of 27 countries which signed the first Radiotelegraph Convention. </font>
</p></span><font size="2">We share a long and distinguished history of excellent
cooperation, and we look forward to continuing this tradition of mutual support
and respect.</font><span lang="EN-GB"><font size="2">"</font>
<p><font size="2">Along with the World Telecommunication and Information Society Award, Dr
Touré gifted President Lula with a copy of the instrument of ratification to the
International Telecommunication Convention signed in Atlantic City </font>
</p></span><font size="2">on 15 August 1949.</font>
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<p><font size="2">Citing Brazil’s remarkable progress in ICT development, Dr Touré said that it
is at the forefront of the wireless revolution: "Brazil has 155 million cellular
phones of which 5 million are 3G terminals already in operation, giving it a
mobile teledensity of almost 80 per cent. At the beginning of 2009, over a third
of the Brazilian population was online, and Brazil had over ten million fixed
broadband subscribers and close to three million mobile broadband
subscriptions."</font></p>
<p><font size="2">Dr Touré added that Brazil is one of the world’s great satellite powers and
has operated both geostationary and non-geostationary satellite networks since
the early 1970’s. "Given the large dimension of your country, space systems play
a vital role in helping connect remote populations as well as in remote sensing,
monitoring climate change and resource exploration," Dr Touré said.</font></p><br><font size="2"><b><p>For more information, please contact:</p>
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