Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-06-11-Speech-1-105"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-06-11"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Information and communication technologies in developing countries2
dcterms:Language	"fi"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010611.6.1-105"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-06-11-Speech-1-1062
lpv:speaker	lp:Eija-Riitta Korhola2
lpv:spokenAs	member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Suomen kristillisdemokraatit rp (2001-05-30--2004-07-19)3 member; Temporary committee on human genetics and other new technologies in modern medicine (2000-12-13--2001-11-29)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Latvia Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-10-06--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I would like to thank Mrs Dybkjaer for an excellent report on a subject which is important to everyone. At the Okinawa Summit a year ago in July G8 took the view that the most central challenge facing the world at the moment is the wide gulfs between north and south in terms of technical capacity and know-how, in other words the ‘digital divide’. There are areas in the world in which a total 2 billion inhabitants have become isolated. If this gulf in technical know-how cannot be bridged, globalisation will already have failed from the start. The rapporteur wisely stated that the development of digital know-how must not be based solely on the private sector but that the EU and other funding bodies must focus on the public sector. This is a realistic approach. The issue does not merely involve a technical problem but the combined effects of geographical isolation, poverty and disease. Therefore, the success of globalisation requires these isolated areas to be linked to the rest of the world as well as a real investment in the education and health of their inhabitants. If the situation is allowed to develop solely on the basis of market forces, there is a risk that the digital divide will widen to an unbridgeable extent. Although development cooperation in recent decades has largely been correctly targeted, the media has emphasised and public opinion has been influenced by a few sad examples of tractors rusting in the fields, in other words donations given on commercial terms without understanding the situation of the recipients or ensuring that they were prepared to receive them. Precisely the same nightmare scenario may arise today if we don’t take care that the information society of developing countries has a healthy foundation on which it can be based. This foundation is a guaranteed right for everyone to have a basic education and a worthwhile existence. The PPE-DE Group would like the European Union to work to ensure that, with its help, all countries in the world are able to take part in adopting information technology and develop their societies. If it is possible to follow such an integrated and complementary policy in the field of information technology and telecommunications, there is hope that information technology will promote partnership and reinforce all other development cooperation carried out in these countries. This approach is successfully reflected in the report now under discussion."@en1

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