The government unveiled on Friday its new strategy to boost Internet use in the country, but admitted that it would be impossible for Indonesia to meet the targets set at the recent World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).
The WSIS, the first global conference on the Internet, which was held in Geneva in December, set targets that include ensuring that over 50 percent of the citizens in each country should have access to the Internet by 2015.
KT Corp., Korea's biggest fixed-line telecommunication operator, said yesterday that it had won a $65 million contract to build an online data system for the Indonesian government. The deal would be the first time a Korean telecommunication firm has exported e-government technology.
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