The speaker thanks the organizers and sponsors for making the event possible. He highlights the importance of partnerships and collaboration.
The speaker then delivers the keynote. His three main points are: 1) Everyone must have access to broadband as it reduces inequality. 2) Multi-stakeholder partnerships are needed to deliver affordable broadband for all. 3) Providing connectivity is only the beginning - solutions must benefit the poor and marginalized.
He concludes by thanking the attendees and urging them to take action to address inequalities and turn discussions into reality.
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VCS Engage is the three year programme of investment from Norfolk County Council to support as strong dialogue between Norfolk’s voluntary, community and social enterprise sector and Norfolk County Council. Momentum (Norfolk), Norfolk RCC and West Norfolk VCA are working closely together to deliver this.
As part of this we are developing a Sector Led Plan, a statement of the challenges facing the sector and what we collectively want to achieve over the next few years.
This is being done in a number of stages. The first stage was a series of workshops and one to one interviews. This document provides the full responses of the feedback from the workshops, a summary document has also been published to provide a better overview of the issues raised.
The second stage is a survey based on the feedback from the first stage. The survey is now live! If you haven’t completed it and are a Norfolk based voluntary, community of social enterprise organisation please do so now and have your say http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/vcsengage
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Developing a sector led plan for norfolk - consultation events full responsesNorfolkRCC
VCS Engage is the three year programme of investment from Norfolk County Council to support as strong dialogue between Norfolk’s voluntary, community and social enterprise sector and Norfolk County Council. Momentum (Norfolk), Norfolk RCC and West Norfolk VCA are working closely together to deliver this.
As part of this we are developing a Sector Led Plan, a statement of the challenges facing the sector and what we collectively want to achieve over the next few years.
This is being done in a number of stages. The first stage was a series of workshops and one to one interviews. This document provides the full responses of the feedback from the workshops, a summary document has also been published to provide a better overview of the issues raised.
The second stage is a survey based on the feedback from the first stage. The survey is now live! If you haven’t completed it and are a Norfolk based voluntary, community of social enterprise organisation please do so now and have your say http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/vcsengage
Digital Opportunities: Pathways to Enterprise - DMEx Impact Real StoriesDMEx
In just over 18 months, Digital Media Exchange (DMEx) has successfully built digital infrastructure and new opportunities for people in Sheffield to work in the creative and digital industries and to use digital technology to support new local businesses. Digital Opportunities: Pathways to Enterprise celebrated the achievements of the DMEx programme in Sheffield.
After getting our brief, we were asked to create a report that explained our understanding of it, including our client, its structure, its purpose, and the opportunities that it offered. My report is shown above below.
This presentation by David Sinclair of ILC-UK asks whether the Web can save social care.
It argues that:
*We have more older people and are going to need more care
*Care is in crisis today. It is likely to get worse before it gets better
*Technology has a role to play
*But we have assumed the place of technology without addressing the barriers
*There are some challenges to overcome
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After getting our brief, we were asked to create a report that explained our understanding of it, including our client, its structure, its purpose, and the opportunities that it offered. My report is shown above below.
This presentation by David Sinclair of ILC-UK asks whether the Web can save social care.
It argues that:
*We have more older people and are going to need more care
*Care is in crisis today. It is likely to get worse before it gets better
*Technology has a role to play
*But we have assumed the place of technology without addressing the barriers
*There are some challenges to overcome
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Supporting the global efforts in strengthening the safety, security and resilience of Cyberspace, the Commonwealth Cybersecurity Forum 2013, organised by the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation. The ceremonial opening examined how Cyberspace could be governed and utilised in a manner to foster freedom and entrepreneurship, while protecting individuals, property and the state, leading to socio-economic development. Speakers of this session, Mr Mario Maniewicz, Chief, Department of Infrastructure, Enabling Environment and E-Applications, ITU; Mr David Pollington, Director, International Security Relations, Microsoft; Mr Alexander Seger, Secretary, Cybercrime Convention Committee, Council of Europe; Mr Nigel Hickson, Vice President, Europe, ICANN and Mr Pierre Dandjinou, Vice President, Africa, ICANN, added their perspectives on various approaches to Cybergovernance, with general agreement on the role Cyberspace could play to facilitate development equitably and fairly across the world.
Hosted by the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of Cameroon together with the Telecommunications Regulatory Board of Cameroon and backed by partners and industry supporters including ICANN, Council of Europe, Microsoft, MTN Cameroon, AFRINIC and Internet Watch Foundation, the Commonwealth Cybersecurity Forum 2013 seeks to broaden stakeholder dialogue to facilitate practical action in Cybergovernance and Cybersecurity, some of which will be reflected in the CTO’s own work programmes under its Cybersecurity agenda.
Metanomics is a weekly Web-based show on the serious uses of virtual worlds. This transcript is from a past show.
For this and other videos, visit us at http://metanomics.net.
The career opportunities emerging, due to technology, in coming decades, is amazing. So do entrepreneurial opportunites. Every student has to be either an entrepreneur or intrapreneur to stay employed.
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The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
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The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
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Sudheer Mechineni, Head of Application Frameworks, Standard Chartered Bank
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1. Keynote and welcome
Protocol
Introduction and thanks
First let me thank all those who have made this event possible, notably
our friends and colleagues at the Federal Ministry of Communication
Technology here in Nigeria and at NCC (not only Dr. Juwah, but also
especially Lolia Emakpore, Nnena Ukoha, and Ibrahim Galadima) whose
tireless work, and in-country support have made this event possible.
Without them, quite simply, none of us would be here. The CTO is a
membership organisation, and all members rely heavily on the support
of other members for each other. This is Nigeria’s gift to all of us here;
we must be responsible in how we value and use this gift.
I would also like, right at the beginning of the conference, to thank all of
my team at the CTO for pulling together an outstanding programme. It is
invidious to pick out individuals in what has undoubtedly been a team
effort, but I would especially like you all to thank Carly Wilkinson, who
has developed the programme, and has stepped up to take the lead in
making this event happen since the unfortunate resignation of Nigel Kay
who led our events division and came with me here to Abuja in July.
It would also be very remiss of me not to thank our many sponsors and
supporters for all of their contributions. These are truly appreciated –
and one of my own personal tasks this week is to encourage them all
actually to become members of the CTO – so they can benefit even
further from engagement with all of our other members!
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2. Keynote
Distinguished participants, my colleagues do not usually let me loose in
our conferences to say substantive words about the themes we are
addressing. My role is usually left to be that of trying to appear gracious
and appreciative on behalf of the CTO, as I hope I have just done.
However, over the next few days we address critically important themes,
and I specifically wanted to say a few words to challenge us all now, at
the beginning of this event. Quite simply, we cannot deliver on the title
of this Forum, “Innovation through Broadband” unless we actually have
broadband. Many of the CTO’s members have less than 5% of their
population connected to the Internet; my own country, the UK, still has
17% of its households not connected. For those of you from the
corporate sector, this is indeed a great market opportunity! However,
the case I want to put before you is that, more importantly than merely
the economic agenda, is a moral agenda. These technologies are so
important, so powerful, so life-changing, that we fail our brothers and
sisters if we do not ensure that they too have access to broadband.
There are three simple things I would like you to take away from what I
say this morning:
First, the expansion of ICTs over the last decade has made the
world a more unequal place. Put simply, these technologies are
hugely powerful. Those who have access to them, and know how to use
them, can benefit immensely. But those who do not have access, who
only have an old style mobile ‘phone, who cannot afford the costs of
connectivity, are becoming increasingly disadvantaged. This is not only
a moral agenda, but also a very practical social and political one,
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3. because sooner or later, the disadvantaged will – and I have no doubt
about this – seek to redress the balance by taking action into their own
hands, as we see across so many parts of the world today.
We must, and again there has to be no doubt about this, ensure that
everyone has access to the Internet. I am delighted to see that we
have a session specifically on women and children at this Forum, and
that (for a change) we do indeed have a distinguished woman on the
platform here at the start. But this is not enough. As most of you know,
I champion the use of ICTs by people with disabilities – at least 10% of
the world’s population; we have to do more for them, so that they too
can benefit from the use of ICTs. Access for all is therefore my first
point.
Second, we need to develop new models through which such
access can be provided at an affordable price to those who do not
currently have access. This is an immense challenge. Put simply, the
market will deliver solutions for many of our peoples. We must therefore
ensure that regulatory environments enable the market to deliver for the
greatest number possible. Regulators and companies must work
together in an environment of trust to ensure that this happens.
However, the market will not deliver for everyone – for those living in the
most peripheral rural areas, for the elderly, for those with severe
disabilities. Here, I believe passionately that we need to craft innovative
multi-stakeholder partnerships to ensure such delivery. These need to
involve governments, the private sector, civil society, international
organisations and bilateral donors in providing solutions that will serve
the needs of everyone in our societies. This is not easy. Everyone talks
‘partnerships’ but few ICT4D partnerships have truly been successful. It
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4. is here that the CTO can offer much in terms of partnership brokering,
and working with all of our members to deliver such partnerships
practically on the ground.
As many of you will know, broadband is one of the CTO’s six priority
areas, and it is highly appropriate that we are here in Nigeria shortly
after they have published their national broadband plan. We are very
pleased to be working with the ITU and the Commonwealth Secretariat
in helping those Commonwealth countries that do not already have
broadband strategies and policies in place, so to do. In this connection,
I am very pleased to be able to announce that the German Government,
through BMZ and GIZ, has last week agreed to provide financial support
for some of this work, and that in the months ahead we will be cooperating initially with the government of Sierra Leone to help them
develop strategies to roll our the Internet and broadband to the 98% of
the country that does no currently have access.
This emphasis on partnerships is also why I am so delighted that the
CTO has joined the Alliance for Affordable Internet, and that they have
privileged us by launching this very important initiative here in Abuja.
My second point, is thus the need for carefully crafted multistakeholder partnerships to help deliver affordable broadband for
all those for whom the market itself will not deliver solutions.
But third, providing broadband connectivity is only a beginning. If
we do not work with the poorest and most marginalised in our societies,
truly to understand their needs, and then develop solutions that will be of
explicit benefit to them, as much as to the privileged rich and elites, then
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5. the divisions within our societies will only increase yet further. This is
why this Forum focuses on “Innovation through Broadband”. These
innovations must not just be concerned with how to make yet greater
profits from the telecommunications sector, or for governments to raise
yet more revenue through levies and spectrum auctions – however
important these are. No. This is only part of the story. We are simply
failing in our duties as responsible citizens, and indeed decent human
beings, if we do not enable everyone to benefit from broadband: the
young orphaned girl, bringing up her younger brother in the slums; the
widow, gleaning an existence in the forests far from the capital city; the
child soldier who had his arms lopped off and is now begging on the
streets…
My three messages are, I hope clear:
Enabling everyone to have access
The importance of multi-stakeholder partnerships to serve the
most marginalised, and
Working with the poor and marginalised to enable them to
develop solutions that are fundamentally in their interests
Distinguished colleagues and friends. My final thanks are to you for
being here. We have a packed programme of inspirational speakers – I
often think our events are far too packed! Take time to talk with each
other. Use Wednesday morning to hold bilateral meetings and engage
in productive discussions. We are the privileged. We are the elite –
whether we like it or not. We therefore have immense responsibilities.
The CTO has brought us all together. But this is not enough. I want
every one of you to make a commitment – here and now in this room –
not just to listen, not just to speak, but to act. The time is almost too
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6. late. The inequalities generated by ICTs have almost become too big for
us to overcome. Now is the time to make a difference. Now is the time
to turn rhetoric into reality.
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