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The three-day international workshop on "Building Information Society: Road2Tunis" concluded in the city Tuesday declaring a common commitment to building a people-cantered and development-oriented knowledge-based information society in the world at large, reports UNB.
The information and communication technology (ICT) stakeholders representing governments, private sector, academicians and civil society members from 17 countries of five continents of the world adopted a "Dhaka Declaration" after extensive deliberations on e-governance, transparency and accountability.
They also focused on public and private sector collaboration, e-governance and security, e-content and creativity, rural and universal access, poverty alleviation, solidarity fund and inclusion of women and children as well as the underprivileged.
Speaking at a press conference, organised on the occasion at a local hotel, Science and ICT Minister Abdul Moyeen Khan said ICT could be used as an important tool to change the society.Science and ICT Secretary Miah Moshtaq Ahmed and General Manager of Microsoft Asia Pacific, Singapore Faycal Bouchlaghem also spoke on the occasion.
The Dhaka declaration, submitted as input to the Second Phase of the WSIS in Tunis during 16-18 November 2005 through the Secretary General of the ITU, endorsed that ICT can play an important role in achieving the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
MDGs describe a fundamental set of principles and guidelines for combating poverty, hunger, diseases, illiteracy, and environmental degradation and gender inequality.
The three-day workshop began Sunday with a call to strengthen democracy, establish good governance and ensure government's accountability by using ICT.
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