1. Towards a
World network for
digital solidarity
II International Meeting on ICT
for Development Cooperation
Gijón - February 10th 2009

2. • Digital Solidarity
is one answer to bridge
the worldwide digital
gap that was
• Raised and developed
by the African civil society
• Proposed in Bamako
2000 Summit : Internet:
bridges for development.

3. President Abdulaye Wade
• coordinator of the ICTs aspect of the New
Partnership for Africa’s Development
(NEPAD)
• took the lead on this new challenge for
Africa and
• build a vision for an African information
society .

4. I- Background and context
• Bamako 2000: Internet: bridges for development
The 4 stages of the World Summits on the Information Society
• Geneva and Lyon in 2003
• Bilbao and Tunis in 2005
Two multi-stakeholder institutions
• World Digital solidarity FUND (Geneva)
• World Digital solidarity AGENCY (Lyon)

5. World Summits on the Information Society
2 main issues
• Internet governance (necessary regulation of the Internet)
Internet Governance Forum (IGF)
• Worldwide Digital gap.
Global Alliance for the ICT Development (GAID), the Connect
the world initiative supported by ITU, many others, especially in UN
agencies (UNESCO, UNITAR…), and of course, the creation of DSF

6. The World Digital Solidarity Agency

7. The Digital solidarity fund the “1% Digital solidarity “ principle
• “1% Digital solidarity “ principle = a new tax on public ICT markets.
• Innovative mechanism (part of Monterrey/ Doha process ) BUT not widely
implemented
Because …
in Europe, regulatory rules on public market are very difficult to
change
Into the Monterrey / Doha process DSF = not a success
Digital solidarity cause is very new and young (only 3 years).

8. What about now …
• First step of digital solidarity ( “the birth”),
• the 30 funding members recently decided to
deeply reorient DSF strategy. 3 main decisions
( conference of Lyon for digital solidarity +
extraordinary session of the DSF advisory board,
held in Bamako )
I - transfer the DSF headquarters to the
south
II - transfer the 1% diplomatic process into the
countries diplomacy services
III – Facilitate a concerted approach
between ICT4D actors and explore new
funding mechanisms

9. Lyon Conference for Digital Solidarity 11/ 24
th/ 2008

10. Lyon Declaration for
Digital Solidarity
“ Convinced that the
transition from an
industrial society to an
information and
knowledge society raises
the prospect of new forms
of solidarity “FOR” but
also “BY” digital
technologies”

11. Two main actions in 2009
I - Build a world forum for digital solidarity
European Digital Solidarity Key Actors Network
(EDSKAN).
WEB2SOLIDARITE
II - Build a virtual micro-finance platform to fund rise
and loan money for digital solidarity projects
(small projects)

13. Najet TENOUTIT
☺
Deputy Director
World digital solidarity agency
najet.tenoutit@dsa-asn.org
www.dsa-asn.org
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