Regional Symposium on E-government and IP
The ITU Plenipotentiary Conference (Marrakesh 2002) revised Resolution 102:Management of Internet Names and Addresses originally adopted at the Minneapolis
Plenipotentiary (1998) and also adopted Resolution 133: Role of administrations of Member
States in the management of internationalized domain names. Resolution 102 instructs the
Director of the Telecommunication Development Bureau "to organize international and regional
forums, in conjunction with appropriate entities, for the period 2002-2006, to discuss policy,
operational and technical issues on the Internet in general and the management of Internet
domain names and addresses in particular for the benefit of Member States, especially for least
developed countries".
According to the instruction in Resolution 102, a "Regional Symposium on E-government and IP
for Arab States" was organized by the ITU Telecommunication Development Bureau in Dubai,
22-25 November 2004, at the kind invitation of Etisalat and e-Compagny from United Arab
Emirates.
The participants from ITU Member States have made the following recommendations as their
contribution to the initiatives undertaken by ITU to implement Resolutions 102 and 133:
1. The Management and the supervision of the internet resources (domain name, IP
address, servers etc…) should be through the International Telecommunication Union
(ITU) in coordination with all concerned parties.
2. Increase coordination among Arab countries to:
- Accelerate the establishment and the activation of Arab organizations concerned
with IT such as the Arab Organization for IT and the E-business Arab Academy.
- Encourage the exchange of successful experiences (Arab and International, already
implemented) between the Arab countries as bench mark for development.
- Cooperate in training to develop the human resources skills in e-business.
- Form a working group from the persons who are in charge of e-government
programs in the Arab countries in order to ensure the exchange of information on
strategies, projects and security of information and electronic services.
- Issue measurable indicators on e-government in the Arab countries.
- Work on the standardization, the certificate classifications and coordination of
preconditions for electronic signatures and electronic transactions in the Arab
countries.
- Cooperate between Arab organizations for the development of the local software
and increasing the Arabic content.
3. Support the Palestinian efforts in order to enhance IT and its applications such as
infrastructure, human resources and e-government in their country.
4. Invite the Arab countries to set one general e-government strategy determining the
required services and preparing human resources and the necessary mechanism to
deliver the e-government services based on a fixed time schedule
5. Encourage the Arab countries to set a working plan including priorities, measurable
objectives and implement it within a time schedule based on the particular circumstances
of each country, taking into consideration:
- The public-private sectors partnership under free competition
- The development of research & development.
- The consolidated framework which includes the legal, financial, human and
infrastructure aspects
- The access of the services to all people at all levels and in all geographical areas,
while securing their personal information and legal rights.
- Disseminate the digital culture among people
- Encourage the electronic exchanging of documents.
6. Invite ITU to provide more support to Arab countries in accordance to the requirement of
each country in the e-government applications and internet protocol (electronic
certification, information and network security, legal aspect and e-business arbitrage).
7. Maximize the benefit from the postal network and its electronic services (e-purchasing, edistribution)
to develop the e-government.
8. Call for more cooperation between the ITU and the Universal Postal Union (UPU) for the
support of Arab countries to help the electronic services to reach the cities, villages and
remote areas, to ensure the people right for electronic interconnection
9. Accept the offer provided by the Emirates Center for Internet Network to coordinate
technically and administratively - in conjunction with ITU - between the centers of domain
names registration in the Arab region to maximize benefits of the Arab efforts in the
arabization of domain name, by participating in the experimentation project in the region.
10. The ITU Arab Regional Office should form a working group for the coordination and the
follow up of the implementation of the recommendations of Dubai Declaration.
11. Open an electronic forum on the ITU Arab Regional Office website to exchange views,
publish indicators, experiences and follow up the activities of the e-government programs
in the Arab Region and for the follow up mechanism for the working group to implement
the above mentioned recommendations.
Dubai, 25 November 2004
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