Digital World Forum Description

Digital World Forum on Accessible and Inclusive ICT ('Digital World Forum') is a FP7 European project focusing on the use of ICT to leverage economic development in Africa and Latin America.

Providing minimal services (health, education, business, government, etc.) to rural communities and under-privileged populations is of major importance to improve people lives, and to sustain development. Using ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies) would be the easiest and possibly only way to develop and deploy those services.

Digital World Forum will explore how to take advantage of the new paradigm of low-cost technologies in broadband infrastructure and devices, as well as the explosion of mobile telephony to bridge the digital divide and connect the unconnected. The aim of Digital World Forum is to make a state-of-the-art in these domains, identify the challenges, and propose a roadmap to tackle them. A particular focus will be on involving local actors from industry, research and academic communities and non-governmental organizations who have field expertise and who will provide feedback on the key factors of adoption.