Pursuant to the guidance emanating from the Steering Committee of UNDESA-GAID at its meeting in Kuala Lumpur, the Global Alliance will refocus its activities over 2008-2009 on the areas of access, connectivity, content and education. Gender issues will be systematically mainstreamed in all activitie....
The Global Alliance for Information and Communication Technologies and Development (GAID) is an inclusive, cross-sectoral, multi-stakeholder platform promoting the use of information and communication technologies for enhancing the achievement of the internationally agreed development goals, notably....
In this Inaugural year, GAID''s energies have focused on (a) developing and operationalizing an appropriate organizational structure, (b) defining its areas of priority and developing its business plan, (c) building collaborative links and (d) raising awareness of the Alliance.
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GAID has laid....
The mission of the Global Alliance for ICT and Development is to contribute to transforming the spirit and vision of WSIS into action and promoting the use of ICT for the achievement of the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals. It will do so by providi....
The work of GAID has to be organized in a fashion that respects the open and non-operational character of GAID itself (in terms of its non-involvement in funding and executing programs on the ground), yet addresses expectations of important stakeholder groups that the Alliance will trigger, in suppo....
A principal distinguishing feature of the Alliance, and its key value added, will be in providing a multi-stakeholder cross-sectoral platform and forum that will bring together all stakeholders representing relevant constituencies (for example, in governments - development cooperation, foreign polic....