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Thirty-fourth session of the Commission/ Twenty-fifth meeting of the Conference of Ministers/Ninth Meeting of the Conference of African Ministers of Finance Ministerial Statement Algiers, Algeria, 10 May 2001…………… following is an extract from the Ministerial Statement: 9. Information and communications technologies hold the promise of enormous positive influence on our countries’ economic and social development. We urge the development of ICT as an integral component of our continents’ national and regional development agenda. To this end, we recommend that the necessary economic, institutional, social, legal and fiscal environment be established to boost ICT in our countries. We call upon our international partners to treat ICT as a special priority for Africa’s development. Hence we invite them to consider launching a special initiative to support harnessing of ICT for development as defined in the African Information Society Initiative and updated in the African Development Forum 1999. We urge that Africa’s ICT priorities be specifically addressed by the G-8’s Dot Force and the UN ECOSOC’s IT initiative, among others.
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