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n the heart of sub-Saharan Africa's most-crowded metropolis, in a dimly lit Internet café thumping with Nigerian music, clusters of two and three teenage boys hover around aging computer screens. They use their Nike T-shirts and baggy jeans to wipe sweat off their brows and palms as they intently craft deceptive e-mails and scour the Web for foreign e-mail addresses.

A Workshop on "ICT and Persons with Disabilities", the first of three events organised by UNESCO at the Tunis meeting of the World Summit on the Information Society, is taking place today.

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This session provided an opportunity to have a dialogue around
how the youth paragraph in the WSIS Phase 1 Declaration
translates into action.

Next week's World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis is about more than domain names, argues technology commentator Bill Thompson.

15.12.2005 A fundamental element in enabling the benefits ICT can bring to economic and social development is the confidence users have in platforms, applications and services. Creating an online environment which builds trust amongst the users of ICT networks is an increasing priority for business, industry and
governments and has been on the OECD agenda since the late 1990s.

18.11.2005 Now that water has been poured over the 'burning issue' of who controls the internet - with yesterday's agreement to set up a new Internet Governance Forum, the focus in Tunis has switched to tackling poverty.

17.11.2005 His Majesty King Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev of Nepal has said that Nepal needs to focus on how the global information revolution could be made a development enabler in the real sense by contributing significantly to reducing poverty and promoting all round development in the world.