For a society of inclusive information
For the Word Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), the Women & Information and Communications Technologies association is organizing a panel on the Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) in the construction of an inclusive society. It will take place on November 16th between 3 and 5 pm at room Nabeul, a United Nation space at Palexpo, Kram, Tunisia
The first part of the WSIS showed the importance of the inclusive access to the ICT as an important factor of development, and the necessity to identify the factors allowing the opportunity to offer an ideal universal access including populations and groups of people outside the development process, those who are deprived today from the access to the networks of knowledge
The part of the WSIS that took place in Tunis offers us, on one hand the opportunity to deepen our thoughts on the means to guarantee the inclusive access, and on the other hand a better vision on the initiatives being taken at the world-wide level.
Our panel’s purpose is to contribute to the collective thoughts concerning the processes and strategies to put into place in order to reach a universal access, taking into account the economical realities, and the cultural differences.
The axis of discussion will cover:
- Strategies and policies developed by emerging countries, particularly those having
succeeded in their numerical revolution
- Case study : the Tunisian experience
- State-of-the art on the information society with regard to women and marginalized minorities inclusion as well as the most disadvantaged populations (poor population in isolated environments) and the various strategies for building the non-exclusive society of the future.
The debate’s platform will include debates, studies presentations and experiences of certain emerging countries as Singapore and India.
