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IT: Telecom still lacking in 1b villages globally
(Shanghai Daily)
Updated: 2006-12-04 16:25
One billion villages in the world are still not connected with
telecommunications although the information and communication technology
is developing very rapidly, a senior telecom official said in Hong Kong
yesterday.
"They are experiencing what my mother experienced some 100 years ago,"
Yoshio Utsumi, secreary general of the International Telecommunications
Union, said. He hoped the situation will be improved with the joint
efforts of the international community.
Muhamad Tunus, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize 2006, said information
technology can play "an exciting role" in helping the poor out of
poverty. It needs collected efforts in the ICT communities to achieve the
United Nations' target of reducing the poor population by half in 2015.
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