E-skills and information literacy will become central in the development process, told Abdul Waheed Khan, UNESCO’s Assistant Director-General for Communication and Information, participants in the annual event of the Global Alliance for ICT and Development yesterday in Kuala Lumpur.
Chairing a Panel on Innovative Funding for ICT4D: Human Resource Investments in Attaining the Millennium Development at GAID’s Global Forum on Access and Connectivity and Innovative Funding Mechanism, he pointed out that the digital divide is less about equipment and technology than about content, value and people who are able or unable to access information and knowledge.
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