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Objectives and expected outcome
This WSIS Thematic Meeting will allow governments, the private sector, workers and civil society to examine policies and practices that permit enterprises to employ ICTs as effective productivity enhancing tools, and do so in a socially responsible manner. To achieve its aim the thematic meeting will:
• Address the impact of ICTs on economic performance and trade competitiveness of developing countries;
• Explore policies and best practices to enable enterprises – and particularly SMEs - to raise their productivity and competitiveness through the use of ICTs;
• Review strategies to integrate SMEs into national and international supply chains using modern communication technologies;
• Examine the impact of the enterprises’ structural changes on local, national and international labour markets and identify strategies to ease the transition.
The outcome of the meeting will provide practical suggestions on policies and programmes that can help countries to utilise ICTs for effective poverty eradication through the growth of economically sustainable enterprises and the quality employment they generate. This will permit policy makers to integrate ICTs into the broader MDG agenda.
The meeting will contribute to the WSIS Tunis Phase, which expects relevant thematic meetings to provide inputs to the preparatory process. Each session will produce conclusions and concrete recommendations to implement the Geneva Plan of Action in the area of ICT for economic and social development. These conclusions will be submitted as an input for the text to be considered at the WSIS PrepCom2, to be held in Geneva from 17 – 26 February 2005.
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