Press Release: European Commission adopts blueprint to help put information and communication technologies at service of world’s poor

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Series Details IP/02/116 (23.1.02)
Publication Date 23/01/2002
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A Communication on 'Information and Communication Technologies in Development: The role of ICTs in EC development policy' was adopted by the European Commission on 23 January 2002. The Communication states that the EU will support and use ICTs not as a priority sector, but rather as a tool to achieve the objectives within the focal areas and crosscutting themes of the new EC development policy.

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