Speaking at the Digital Dividends Conference, Mr. Malloch Brown said that UNDP had over the last year, taken the lead in establishing several pioneering partnerships, including Net Aid.
Globalization is the dominant force of our time.
If strategically harnessed, and with the right partnerships and the right policies in place, these forces present enormous opportunities to help break down divisions between haves and have-nots, and can help bring the poor into the mainstream of global society rather than leaving them in the margins. Put simply, the world is in the midst of an information revolution. The facts speak for themselves. Up to half the world has never used a telephone. Yet the opportunity of explosive growth in ICT use in developing countries is also evident.