[governance] FW: [gaid-discuss] Press release: UN appoints new members to the global alliance on ICT

Wed Apr 16 05:05:20 EDT 2008

Congratulations to the new Representives, and to Civil Spciety as well, for
the welcomed CS representation at the table. .

With best wishes, LDMF.

On 4/16/08, jlfullsack <jlfullsack at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
>
> Despite I'm not a fierce supporter of GAID, I warmly congratulate Viola
> and Parminder who -among others- will repesent the CS engaged in "bridging
> the communication gap" between rich nations and developing countries.
> Best
> Jean-Louis Fullsack
>
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> Of particular interest in this context is the appointment of Parminder to
> the Strategy Council of the GAID (Congratulations Parminder!).
>
> MG
>
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> UN appoints new members to the global alliance on ICT
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> PRESS RELEASE
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>       UN appoints new members to the global alliance on ICT
>
> United Nations, 09 APRIL -The United Nations announced today the
> appointment of new members to the Global Alliance for Information and
> Communications Technology and Development (GAID).
> The new members replace the members of the GAID Steering Committee and
> Strategy Council hosted by the United Nations Department of Economic and
> Social Affairs. The new members will carry on the strategic work towards
> achieving the Millennium Development Goals through ICT policies as laid
> out by the outgoing members.
> The new members were selected through international consultation with all
> stakeholder groups to ensure a balance in gender, geographical and
> institutional representation. The new membership was approved by Mr.
> Zukang Sha, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, whose
> Department (UNDESA) oversees the operations of GAID.
> The composition of the Steering Committee has been expanded from 12 to 15
> and the Strategy Council from 60 to 65, with the new members poised to
> reflect the growing interest and recognition of the role of ICT in the
> development and the rising profile of GAID.
> The function of the Steering Committee is to provide overall guidance for
> GAID and to help define the medium and long-term priorities along with the
> Strategy Council, as well as to serve the Under-Secretary-General in an
> advisory capacity. For its part, the Strategy Council plays an active role
> in disseminating the results of policy dialogue to a wider audience and in
> promoting and coordinating further partnerships with GAID. Gloria Bonder
> (UNESCO Women, Science and Technology in Latin America),
> Jennifer Corriero (TakingITGlobal), Abdul W. Khan (UNESCO), Thierno
> Ousmane Sy (Government of Senegal), Mohsen Khalil (World Bank), and Ramón
> Garza (Índigo Media) are joining the committee this term. Dr. Craig
> Barrett, Chairman of the Board of Intel, will continue to serve as the
> committee chair through to the Fall of 2009.
> The Strategy Council will be joined by Afghanistan, Armenia, Bahamas,
> Croatia, Gambia, Lithuania, Madagascar, Nigeria, Qatar, Rwanda, Syria, and
> Vietnam as new government members; Ibrahim Adel (Zain), Roger Cochetti
> (CompTIA), Johan F. Khairuddin (Astro plc), Tom Phillips (GSM
> Association), Peter Tinoco (Cisneros), and Jeffrey M. Nick (EMC
> Corporation) are representing private sector entities; Clotide Fonseca
> Quesada (Omar Dengo Foundation), Qiheng Hu (Internet Society of China),
> Viola Krebs (ICVolunteers), Doroth Okello (WOUGNET), Rinalia Abdul Rahim
> (Global Knowledge Partnership), Abdulaziz Sager (Gulf Research Center),
> Parminder Jeet Singh (IT for Change) are representing civil entities. The
> new members representing other international organizations are Patricia
> Francis (International Trade Centre), Zhou Yiping (UNDP), and the Network
> of Local Authorities for the Information Society (IT4All Bilbao).
> The term of the current membership was extended to coordinate the GAID
> leadership with the upcoming GAID Annual Meeting and Global Forum in Kuala
> Lumpur at the end of May. Over the past year-and-a-half, GAID has
> benefited from the work of the outgoing members whose support and
> engagement have been crucial to ensure GAID's success. They will continue
> to serve an important and active role as High-level Advisers of the
> Alliance and in promoting information technologies at the service of
> development.
> For more information, please visit http://www.un-gaid.org or contact
> Enrica Murmura of UNDESA- GAID, Tel: +1 212 963 5913, e-mail:
> murmura at un.org
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