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To celebrate this year's World
Telecommunication Day on 17 May 2001, ITU members have selected the theme
"The Internet: challenges, opportunities and prospects". The theme
for this year's day was selected in the light of the extraordinary uptake of
the Internet worldwide and its wide-ranging effects on society.
The Internet offers great potential to
support development activities, but, at the same time, it poses challenges
to existing institutions and raises regulatory challenges because of its
very nature and ever-growing role. World Telecommunication Day 2001 could be
an excellent opportunity to discuss the prospects, challenges and
opportunities of the Internet in the national context.
ITU Members are invited to celebrate
this year's World Telecommunication Day by organizing national programmes
that would address:
- how can the Internet support
development activities, what can be done to foster its development,
what problems can it create
- how to promote its use in all
segments of society
- how can it facilitate the
delivery of basic services, such as health and education
- are the legislative and
regulatory frameworks adequate to foster an equitable diffusion of
the Internet countrywide
- how can obstacles that are
impeding its diffusion and usage be removed while addressing the
challenges that it poses to existing institutions.
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