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| World Summit Award India International Summit 2009 |
| The Summit, ' 21st Century India through Digital Content', was organised as one of India’s largest Digital Technology and Digital Content Summit with 35 nations representatives attending the day long Summit along with key stakeholders from India and South Asia representing public, private and civil society organisations. The Summit, held on April 2, 2009 in New Delhi, ended with key valuable outcomes.
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The Summit was a gathering of Digital Technology and Content experts, policy experts, research and academic institutions into technology and development, private and civil society stakeholders, digital technology and content innovators and practitioners and community leaders, who came together to discuss digital technology and content areas in development. The Summit attracted over 100 key people from World Summit Award member countries, Representatives and experts of Indian National Government and policy makers from across Indian States. Stakeholders came together to better understand how digital Technology and content is changing our lives and what critical areas are needed to be deliberated upon for larger development and governance objectives.
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The value of the Summit was immeasurable. Delegates and presenters were able to share unique experiences, which can serve to provide road-maps for others and participants walking away with information resources that can directly benefit their own communities.
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| Summit Objectives |
- To share best practices and lessons learned about digital technology and content for development from international and national levels
- To share tools and strategies for digital technology and content for development
- To have focused and targeted deliberation on the linkage between digital technology and content and social, economic, and cultural capital
- To initiate, develop, or renew partnerships among attendees
- To increase the level and scope of knowledge about the strategies and resources available to build social, economic, and environmental capital, especially in light of the changing technology and content environment
- To deliberate on key policy aspects of digital technology and content for last mile development
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| Themes |
The main themes of the Summit was ‘21st Century India through Digital Content’. Key speakers from national and international arena addressed common challenges, including
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- India status of digital technology and content for development
- Essential linkage between developing social, cultural and economic capital and role of digital technology and content
- TPolicy compatibility & Digital enabled development framework
- Public-Private Partnerships
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| Summit Implementation |
The Summit was guided by an implementing and monitoring committee having representatives from Department of Information Technology (GoI), Digital Empowerment Foundation and key experts from ICT domain. |
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