Over the past decade, the ‘digital divide’ has been shrinking as the number of fixed phone lines, mobile subscribers and Internet users grow. It is becoming less a gap in access to ICT as a difference in quality and capacity. However, the International Telecommunication Union estimates that approximately one billion people worldwide still lack connection to any kind of information and communication technology. From FAO’s perspective, this conference could not be more timely. Over the past two years, our organization has been pressing forward with a number of major reforms including a new emphasis on FAO as a Knowledge-sharing Organization.

Duration: 59sec

In mp3 (Broadcast quality, Kb to be downloaded)
ftp://ext-ftp.fao.org/Radio/MP3/2007/Web-2-0/DG-e.mp3

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