Digital Diaspora Network Roundtable – WSIS

Co-Organized by United Nations ICT Task Force, UNFIP, UNIFEM and Digital Partners

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 This roundtable will bring together leaders from the ICT community to discuss how entrepreneurs living in the West can support the IT development in their countries and communities of origin. Over the past two years, the United Nations ICT Task Force in partnerships with several organizations such as Digital Partners. UNIFEM, UNFIP, UNDP, IADB has launched several Digital Diaspora Networks focused on South Asia, Africa, and Latin America and the Caribbean. There is now some experience as to how these networks can play a catalytic role in the support of economic empowerment through ICT.

The goal of this invitation-only roundtable is to take stock of what has been put in place, exchange lessons learned from the various networks and develop an action plan to move forward in light of the outcomes of the WSIS (Geneva) conference.

A particular area of focus will be on how best to engage the opportunities presented by ICT and the global digital economy to create and increase wealth while decreasing social and, in particular, gender inequities. The potential is great, yet there is much to be done before it can be fulfilled.

Agenda:

10:00 Welcome – Sarbuland Khan, Laketch Dirasse, Akhtar Badshah

10:20 Introduction Roundtable members’

10:30 Africa Network Report

10:40 South Asia Network

10:50 Latin America and Caribbean Network

11:00 Discussion – forming other networks

11:30 Next Steps – What can we achieve?