A United Nations meeting at its headquarters in New York on 25-26 March will consider specific ways technology innovators and economic entrepreneurs can work together to drive and strengthen development in emerging markets.
“United Nations Meets Web 2.0 and ICT Entrepreneurs” will be attended by ICT leaders and innovators, new media entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and investment firms, and ICT policymakers from governments. Participants will try to apply the mindset of information and communication technologies (ICT) entrepreneurs to how the new media and content are shaping the landscapes of business and economics in developing countries.
In addition to the discussions on those policy issues, an Investors Forum will showcase emerging business and investment opportunities in ICT from developing countries.
Organized by the United Nations Global Alliance for Information Technologies and Development (UNDESA- GAID), the event is a follow up to a 2007 meeting in Silicon Valley which discussed challenges and partnership between the public and private sectors in the area of ICT and development.
The Global Alliance was launched by the Secretary-General of the United Nations in 2006 to help transform the vision and spirit of the World Summit on the Information Society into action and promote the use of ICT to achieve the internationally agreed development goals, including the MDGs. The Global Alliance also serves as a gateway to encourage technology and investment to flow into the world’s developing communities.
