ICT4D Platform Showcases, Debates, Action [DVD]

This DVD is an outcome of the ICT4D Platform at the World Summit on the Information Society in Geneva, December 2003. Organised by the Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP) and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), the aim of the platform was to enrich the political core segment and highlight the human and development dimensions of information and communication technology (ICT).

This DVD includes three segments:

1. Young Asia Television (YATV) Report: The ICT for Development Platform - this exhibition showcases and discussed lessons, innovations, and perspectives of ICT for development.
2. BBC Earth Report Debate: The Digital Divide - this debate about bridging the "digital divide" was broadcast live from the ICT4D Platform. The debate put questions to a panel representing governments, the United Nations, the ICT industry and civil society. This project is a collaboration by UNDP's Asia Pacific Development Information Programme, SDC and the Television Trust for the Environment (TVE).
3. Video Presentation: ICT4D - Poverty Reduction - this is a summary videoclip by YATV/SDC presented at the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries-Development Assistance Committee (OPEC-DAC)/SDC Bilateral Donor Agencies Meeting, Geneva, September 2004 "Knowledge and People-centered Communication: Potentials and Pitfalls for Poverty Reduction and Advancement of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)".