Najet Tenouit- Towards a World network for digital solidarity

Towards a World network for digital solidarity

II International Meeting on ICT for Development Cooperation

Gijón - February 10th 2009

• Digital Solidarityis one answer to bridge the worldwide digital gap that was

• Raised and developed by the African civil society

• Proposed in Bamako 2000 Summit : Internet: bridges for development.

President Abdulaye Wade

• coordinator of the ICTs aspect of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD)

• took the lead on this new challenge for Africa and

• build a vision for an African information society .

I - Background and context

• Bamako 2000: Internet: bridges for development

The 4 stages of the World Summits on the Information Society

• Geneva and Lyon in 2003

• Bilbao and Tunis in 2005

Two multi-stakeholder institutions

• World Digital solidarity FUND (Geneva)

• World Digital solidarity AGENCY (Lyon)

World Summits on the Information Society

2 main issues

• Internet governance (necessary regulation of the Internet) Internet Governance Forum (IGF)

• Worldwide Digital gap.

Global Alliance for the ICT Development (GAID), the Connect the world initiative supported by ITU, many others, especially in UN agencies (UNESCO, UNITAR…), and of course, the creation of DSF

The World Digital Solidarity Agency

The Digital solidarity fund the “1% Digital solidarity “ principle

• “1% Digital solidarity “ principle = a new tax on public ICT markets.

• Innovative mechanism (part of Monterrey/ Doha process ) BUT not widely implemented

Because …

in Europe, regulatory rules on public market are very difficult to change

Into the Monterrey / Doha process DSF = not a success Digital solidarity cause is very new and young (only 3 years).

What about now …

• First step of digital solidarity ( “the birth”), • the 30 funding members recently decided to deeply reorient DSF strategy. 3 main decisions

( conference of Lyon for digital solidarity + extraordinary session of the DSF advisory board, held in Bamako )

I - transfer the DSF headquarters to the south

II - transfer the 1% diplomatic process into the countries diplomacy services

III – Facilitate a concerted approach between ICT4D actors and explore new funding mechanisms

Lyon Conference for Digital Solidarity 11/ 24th/ 2008

Lyon Declaration for Digital Solidarity

“ Convinced that the transition from an industrial society to an information and knowledge society raises the prospect of new forms of solidarity “FOR” but also “BY” digital technologies”

Two main actions in 2009

I - Build a world forum for digital solidarity

European Digital Solidarity Key Actors Network (EDSKAN).

WEB2SOLIDARITE

II - Build a virtual micro-finance platform to fund rise and loan money for digital solidarity projects (small projects)

Najet TENOUTIT Deputy Director

World digital solidarity agency [email protected]

www.dsa-asn.org+33 4 26 23 41 01+33 6 66 63 36 92

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Thank you foryour attention !