[gu-l] (9/16/01)Final Report of Digital Opportunity Initiative for vision
setting
Tak Utsumi
utsumi@columbia.edu
Sun, 16 Sep 2001 19:26:16 +0000 (GMT)
<<September 16, 2001>>
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Alexandre Rivas, Ph.D. <alex_mau@argo.com.br>
Yamasawa, Kiyohito, Dr.Eng. <yamasaw@gipwc.shinshu-u.ac.jp>
Dear Janice, Jim, Karen and Dennis:
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(1) Many thanks for your msg (ATTACHMENT I).
My wholehearted congratulations to your excellent final report of the
Digital Opportunity Initiative, "Creating a Development Dynamic"
<www.opt-init.org>.
I have read it through with great interest.
Dear Alex, Prof. Yamasawa and E-Colleagues:
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(2) I highly commend you to read it, too, for your projects, albeit very
voluminous.
Dear Prof. Yamasawa:
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Pls especially note the descriptions about the activities in
Costa Rica, Malaysia, and Estonia. Pls also note about the ICT
(Information and Communication Technologies) as the "enabler of
globalization as well as for development of community," -- as
for reviving your Sinshu (a nickname of Nagano) as "Education
Prefecture."
You are now a would-be, but soon to be a major decision- maker
and leader of your university, as one of attendees of our mtg at
your university on 8/23rd mentioned later. Leader needs a
vision for his project which often takes long time to realize
(*) -- and time flies like an arrow!! I hope this document will
assist you for your vision setting.
(*) For example, I spent almost 3 decades (i) to
introduce Internet into Japan, (ii) to deregulate the
Japanese telecom policies for the use of email, (iii) to
conduct many "Global Lecture Hall (GLH)" videoconferencing
spanning around the world for testing and demonstration of
various e-learning delivery systems, (iv) to have Japanese
government pledge $15 billion to close digital divide in
developing countries, and (v) to come up to this stage of
our GUS project.
Dear Janice, Jim, Karen and Dennis:
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(3) BTW, while I was in Tokyo last month, some of our colleagues expressed
their concern and high expectation how you will implement your action
plans stated in your final report of the Digital Opportunity Task
(DOT) Force discussion group -- see
http://www.friends-partners.org/pipermail/gu-l/2001q2/date.html
I wish you a very good luck to your endeavor!!
Best, Tak
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ATTACHMENT I
Subject: [digopp] Final Update on the DOT Force
Date: Friday, August 17, 2001 4:16 PM
From: Digopp Moderators <digopp-mod@phoenix.edc.org>
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To: <digopp@phoenix.edc.org>
Dear DIGOPP Working Group:
Following the G8 Summit in Genoa, we are eager to give you a final update on
the Dot Force and subsequent activities. As you may know, the leaders of the
industrialized nations formally endorsed the final report of the Dot Force
and its recommendations outlining how ICTs can be harnessed to help reach
development goals. The final Communiqué issued by the G8 leaders highlights
the work of the Dot Force and notes that "ICT holds tremendous potential for
helping developing countries accelerate growth, raise standards of living and
meet other development priorities."
The acceptance of the Action Plan and the work of the Dot Force is an
important demonstration of the growing acknowledgment of the significant
potential for ICT to help narrow existing societal and economic divides and
create digital opportunities. We are delighted that the G-8 has taken this
important step, and we look forward to the next phase of work -- implementing
the Dot Force recommendations. It has been truly exciting to see the
increased momentum and understanding of these issues that has been generated
during the past year. It is encouraging that so many participants in the Dot
Force -- from G-8 governments, multilateral organizations, private sector,
non-profits, and the developing countries -- are now committed to finding
ways to take concrete action.
We hope and expect that we will continue to see the effects of the efforts of
the Dot Force in such areas as overseas development assistance (ODA)
commitments, as well as in new public-private sector partnerships that may be
created as an outgrowth of the Dot Force effort. Markle, for its part, will
continue to pursue its public-private partnerships, such as the Digital
Opportunity Initiative, the partnership of Markle, Accenture, and the United
Nations Development Programme that recently published its strategic framework
for development (www.opt-init.org). The three partners are now moving to test
out this framework in the field.
Additionally, it is notable that the unique, multisectoral composition of the
Dot Force -- the inclusion of governments, private sector, non-profits and
developing country participants with equal dignity - is beginning to be
replicated in other international venues. The value of having each of these
participants at the table cannot be underestimated. For instance, the United
Nations Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Task Force, which will
formally launch its activities early this fall, will include members from the
industrialized and developing world, public and private sectors, and
multilateral agencies. The Markle Foundation has been asked to participate in
this effort and we hope to help strengthen the powerful model of how
different sectors can work together to reach common objectives.
We firmly believe that the work of the Dot Force and the input provided by so
many of you, as part of this on-line Working Group, has gone a long way to
begin to surface the issues that must be addressed, if the potential of ICT
to advance development goals is to be realized.
We know that this online consultation was considered to be of extremely high
quality and importance. So again, thank you for your participation in the
DIGOPP consultation.
Warm regards,
The Markle Foundation
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