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MISTICA: DOT Force statement for DC

From: Daniel Pimienta ([email protected])
Date: Wed May 22 2002 - 14:25:05 AST

>From: The DIGITALDIVIDE discussion group
><[email protected]> On Behalf Of Jayne Cravens
>Sent: May 22, 2002 5:49 AM
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>Subject: [DIGITALDIVIDE] DOT Force: statement for developing countries
>released
>
>DOT Force : Statement From Developing Countries Canada, 20 May 2002
>
>A statement was issued by delegates from those developing countries
>represented at the G8 Digital Opportunity Task Force (DOT Force) stocktaking
>meeting held in Calgary (Canada) from 6 - 7 May 2002 .
>
>DOT Force: Outcomes From Stocktaking Meeting[endilink]). Issued on 7 May,
>the statement sets out the position of developing countries regarding both
>global initiatives promoting information and communication technology (ICT)
>for development, and the future of DOT Force and its implementation teams.
>The eight developing countries which are members of DOT Force are: Bolivia,
>Brazil, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania.
>
>Statement from Developing Countries in the DOT Force on Global Initiatives
>Promoting ICT for Development and Future of the DOT Force Implementation
>Teams.
>Calgary, 7 May 2002
>
>'A Perspective on the DOT Force Process to Date
>Significant benefits:
>
>********Making the case for "ICT for Development" under a global
>perspective, was perhaps the most important achievement of the G-8 Dot Force
>initiative;
>
>********The DOT Force multi-dimensional and multi-stakeholder model of
>participation and representation was an extremely positive development in
>terms of previous G-8 initiatives and is an experience to be built upon in
>other subsequent mechanisms dealing with global ICT for Development issues;
>
>********A very good Action Plan was produced, reflecting a balanced
>combination of demands, concerns and contributions from all sectors
>represented;
>
>********Dot Force produced important Knowledge Sharing and Advocacy Networks
>in support of multi-stakeholder linkages that will be crucial to the
>promotion of ICT for Development international cooperation. The facilitation
>of South-South dialogue through DOT Force supported meetings in Pretoria,
>Cairo and Rio was also of relevance and value for developing countries.
>
>Areas that could have been improved:
>
>********Expectations regarding scope and magnitude of programs, partnership
>and funding were raised too high initially, and were not followed through at
>subsequent steps of the process;
>
>********Discontinuation of DOT Force could represent an undesirable loss of
>the global perspective with which the issue of ICT for Development was
>raised by the G-8 in the context of the Okinawa Charter and of the DOT Force
>meetings;
>
>********Bilateralism, through G-8 country-led working teams in a post-DOT
>Force context would hamper the multi-dimensional and multi-stakeholder
>characteristics that were at the very core of DOT Force's successful and
>innovative approach to a North-South issue;
>
>********DOT Force's Report Card to the G-8 Leaders at Kananaskis lacks any
>reference to Action Points 6 & 9 in the Genoa Plan of Action. Specifically
>on the Least Developed Country initiative, and to mechanisms by which ODA
>mainstreaming of ICT and better coordination among donors could be achieved,
>or improved;
>
>********Ensuring adequate and full participation of the DOT Force developing
>countries in all meetings, especially in the multiple implementation team
>meetings, was particularly difficult since resources were not allocated
>towards ensuring effective participation, but rather was geared to assist
>delegates attend meetings; and
>
>********Lack of, or insufficient ICT Infrastructure, one of the major
>challenges developing countries have to face in their efforts to access ICTs
>as a tool for development, is surprisingly not addressed as a priority in
>the proposed DOT Force Report Card to the Leaders of the G-8 at the
>Kananaskis summit. This is despite the inclusion of ICT infrastructure in
>the Okinawa Charter.
>
>The Future Following Kananaskis 2002
>
>********Should DOT Force be discontinued by decision of the G-8 following
>Kananaskis, developing countries would support an alternative process that
>would build upon what was gained through the innovative approach of the DOT
>Force experience. It would be of particular importance to maintain the DOT
>Force's multi-dimensional and multi-stakeholder interaction and networking
>on issues of North-South cooperation and its global perspective on ICT for
>Development. These unique achievements would not be sustained by the mere
>continuation of individual and bilateral implementation oriented
>implementation teams or working groups. In the absence of some form of
>coordination or oversight, these teams, on their own, or under individual
>G-8 country shepherding, will tend to split up the ICT for Development
>agenda into separate non-communicating specific issues and fields of action
>thus increasing fragmentation;
>
>********The UN ICT Task Force could act as a DOT Force follow-up mechanism,
>providing a platform for coordination or articulation of implementing teams
>or working groups, as well as a basis for dealing with issues of ICT For
>Development under a global perspective. It could provide legitimacy as a
>conduit for articulating the work of implementing teams with the different
>agencies of the UN system, and other relevant ICT initiatives that are of
>interest to developing countries. The flexibility and autonomy of
>implementing teams as well as DOT Force's original "demand driven"
>orientation should be maintained. Greater Developing Country contribution to
>implementing teams should be sought, for example, by including developing
>countries as co-chairs. But specifically Developing Countries that were
>involved in DOT Force could, and should, form an advisory group to guide the
>modus operandi of the UN ICT Task Force thus ensuring lessons learnt are not
>lost in the future; and
>
>********Despite the areas of weakness of the DOT Force process as noted
>above, the DOT Force Developing Countries recognise the benefits, and
>therefore wish to continue to be involved in a multi-dimensional and
>multi-stakeholder implementation process for ICT for Development that has a
>global perspective. However this is only provided that they are able to
>actively ensure that the new platform and process will meet their needs.'
>
>Resources:
>
>********DOT Force ****** <http://www.dotforce.org>

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