ICTs

ICT on Development
Some of the goals
Erradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Achieve Universal Primary Education
Reduce child mortality


WORLD SUMMIT ON THE INFORMATION SOCIETY
-connect villages

ICT CHALLENGES
-Awareness
-Availability
-Accesibility
-Affordability

"Digital divides are not jus the result of economic differences in access to technologies but also in cultural capacity and political will to apply these technologies for development impact" This means that is not just about give people computers and taht is all, is about to teach them how to use them in a well way.

CONECTIVITY COSTS
Shared access model=Pay as you use
Broadband=flat-rate

telecomunications equipmnet is designed to have "five 9s" of reliabillity: 99.999%

Content
Jaime Carbonell, Bill of the rightsd for the information era: Providin the right information to the right people in the right language in the right timeframe in the right level of detail, to the right cost


Passive consumption of content active production of information.

Usability and Interface
The use of ICT requires a level of literacy, both lingual and technical. We need to transform complex technologies into user-friendly sistems.

Security
Is a concern even for uninformed or unware end-users, it places an implicit cost on all transactions. Computer Emergency Response Teams CERT.

Regulation and Policy
Many developing countries regulate ICT restrictively.
In these contries telecom provides tend to be gevernment companies.
Countries with fewer restrictions often find higher levels of ICT adoption.

Digital Information and Broad casting.
Digital informatyion can be broeadcast easily and there is already widespread usage f digital TV and even digital Radio.

Economic models markets and role of ICT
Market-driven models alone with not push ICT into developing regions.
Developing regionsare a large but untapped market... but their needs are not necessarily the same as in development regions.
Other than waiting fot ICT to become affordable, there have been only a few specicifations suggestions and making ICT affordable for sustainable development.

QUESTIONARY

1. Which are the four componentes