WSIS Action Lines

In order to assist you in selecting the WSIS action lines, the following keywords are provided to show some of the themes covered under each of the WSIS action lines. The full text of each action line is available at www.itu.int/wsis/PoA.

 1) The role of governments and all stakeholders in the promotion of ICTs for development

� Cooperation among stakeholders  �  Millennium Declaration �  Mainstreaming ICTs � Multi Stakeholder Partnership (MSP) � Multi-stakeholder portals for indigenous peoples � National e-strategies  � Public/Private Partnerships (PPP).

2) Information and communication infrastructure: an essential foundation for an inclusive information society

� Access  � Accessibility  � Affordability  � Assistive technologies  � Broadband network infrastructure � Digital inclusion  � Enabling and competitive environment  � ICT backbone  � ICT connectivity  � ICT equipment � ICT services  � Infrastructure  � Internet exchange points  � Investment � Satellite  � Traditional media � Remote and marginalized areas  � Ubiquitous computing/communications � Universal access/service � Wireless.

3) Access to information and knowledge

� Access to public official information  � Access to scientific knowledge  � Digital public libraries and archives � ICTs for all  � Multi-purpose community public access points  � Open source, proprietary and free software  �  Public access to information  � Public domain information.

4) Capacity building

� Basic literacy  � Distance learning  � Education/training  � E-literacy  � Gender  � Combating illiteracy  � Life-long learning  � Research and development (R&D)  � Self-learning  � Teacher training  � Training ICT professionals  � Volunteering � Youth

5) Building confidence and security in the use of ICTs

� Authentication  � Building confidence and security � Consumer protection  � Countering misuse of ICTs  � Countering spam � Cyber-crime, �  Cyber-security  � Data protection  � Information security and network security  � Network integrity  � Online transaction security  � Privacy  �  Real-time incident-handling and response � Secure and reliable applications.

6) Enabling environment

� Consumer protection  � Dispute settlement  � Domain name management  � E-commerce  � E-government strategy  �  Entrepreneurship  � ICT forums  � Intellectual property  �  Internet governance  �  Legal, regulatory and policy environment  � Privacy  �  Radio frequency spectrum  � Regional root servers  �  Secure storage and archival  � Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs)  � Standardization 

7) ICT applications: benefits in all aspects of life

� Disaster recovery  �  E-applications  � E-agriculture  � E-business  �  E-commerce  �  E-employment  � E-environment � E-government  � E-health  � E-publishing  � E-science  �  ICT waste disposal  � Sustainable production and consumption  � Teleworking  � Transparency.

8) Cultural diversity and identity, linguistic diversity and local content

� Cultural diversity  � Cultural exchange and information  � Cultural heritage  � Cultural industry  � Cultural policy  � Digital archive  � Disadvantaged and vulnerable groups  � Indigenous peoples  � Internationalized domain names  � Language-related ICT tools  � Linguistic diversity  �  Local languages  �  Traditional knowledge.

9) Media

� Combatting illegal and harmful content in the media � Diversity of media ownership  � Gender portrayal in the media  � Media independence and pluralism  � Reducing international imbalances  � Role of media in the Information Society  � Traditional media � Training of media professionals  .

10) Ethical dimensions the Information Society

• Common good  � Ethics  � Human rights  � Preventing abusive uses of ICTs  � Values.

11) International and regional cooperation

� Financing of ICT networks and services � Infrastructure development projects  �  International mechanisms � Progress evaluation  � Regional action plan  � UN global compact.

12) Achieving the WSIS targets (Plan of Action, Section B)

� To connect villages with ICTs and establish community access points; � To connect universities, colleges, secondary schools and primary schools with ICTs; � To connect scientific and research centres with ICTs; � To connect public libraries, cultural centres, museums, post offices and archives with ICTs; � To connect health centres and hospitals with ICTs; � To connect all local and central government departments and establish websites and email addresses; � To adapt all primary and secondary school curricula to meet the challenges of the Information Society, taking into account national circumstances � To ensure that all of the world's population have access to television and radio services; � To encourage the development of content and to put in place technical conditions in order to facilitate the presence and use of all world languages on the Internet; � To ensure that more than half the world�s inhabitants have access to ICTs within their reach.

13) Digital solidarity agenda (Plan of Action, Section D)

� Debt burden  � Digital divide  � Digital solidarity fund  � Financing mechanisms  � Monterrey Consensus � National e-strategies  � Poverty reduction strategies  � Technology transfer

14) Follow-up and evaluation (Plan of Action, Section E)

� Benchmarking  � Community connectivity indicators � Gender-specific indicators  � ICT Development Index � Information Society indicators � International performance evaluation  � Monitoring the digital divide � Statistics � Success stories

15) Towards WSIS Phase 2 (Tunis) (Plan of Action, Section F)

� Elaboration of final appropriate documents � Partnerships among stakeholders  � Preparatory process  � Stocktaking � Task Force on Financial Mechanisms  � Working Group on Internet Governance