The newly-born Global Alliance for Information and Communication Technologies and Development (GAID) Tuesday vowed to narrow the digital divides between the rich and the poor around the world.
"The Alliance will strive to overcome the social and digital divides by promoting policies and partnerships ......" GAID said in a statement issued at the end of its inaugural meeting at Putrajaya, the administrative center of the Malaysian government.
Translation of the commitments made at the World Summit of the Information Society into action would really make a tangible and sustained difference in the lives of billions of people who currently do not share the benefits of the information revolution, GAID said.
"The irony of the present situation is that those who are currently with the least access to technology are precisely the ones who would benefit the most if wonders of modern information and communication technologies become indeed accessible and relevant to all of humanity," it said.
The Alliance vowed to put the problems and needs of the majority of humanity onto the "radar screens" of thinkers, business executives and government decision makers by supporting and initiating ICT for Development (ICT4D) activities.
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