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New Broadband Commission report focuses on bringing high-speed connectivity to world’s poorest communities
How can the ‘mobile miracle’ be replicated to extend broadband access to all?
Geneva, 31 May 2011
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Release of new report Broadband: A Platform for Progress |
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The full report and Executive Summary will be available for download from 12:00 CET on Monday 6 June at:
http://www.broadbandcommission.org/publications/Pages/aplatformforprogress.aspx |
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Broadband is today’s transformational technology. By revolutionizing access to content and changing the delivery paradigms for a whole host of public and private sector services, it is becoming essential basic infrastructure for every country’s future development. Yet for the moment, access to high-speed Internet is very much a rich-world privilege. To truly harness the power of information and communication technologies to create tomorrow’s Knowledge Societies and meet the Millennium Development Goals, new approaches to driving broadband roll-out across economic barriers are urgently needed. This report looks at what broadband can bring, the state of deployment around the world, and innovative models that can help bring high-speed connectivity to the world’s poorest communities. |
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The report comes from the Broadband Commission for Digital Development, led by ITU and UNESCO: www.broadbandcommission.org |
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For further information, please contact:
Sarah Parkes
ITU Media Relations
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+41 22 730 6135 |
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+41 79 599 1439 |
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pressinfo@itu.int |
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Sue Williams
Chief, Media Section, Bureau of Public Information, UNESCO
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+33 1 45 68 17 06 |
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s.williams@unesco.org |
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