NEW BROADBAND COMMISSION REPORT FOCUSES ON BRINGING HIGH-SPEED CONNECTIVITY TO WORLD'S POOREST COMMUNITIES HOW CAN THE 'MOBILE MIRACLE' BE REPLICATED TO EXTEND BROADBAND ACCESS TO ALL?

GENEVA -- The following information was released by the International Telecommunication Union:

What:Release of new report Broadband: A Platform for Progress

When:The full report and Executive Summary will be available for download from 12:00 CET on Monday 6 June at:

www.broadbandcommission.org/index.html#outcomes

Why:Broadband is today's transformational technology. By revolutionizing access to content and changing the delivery paradigms for a whole host of public and private sector services, it is becoming essential basic infrastructure for every country's future development. Yet for the moment, access to high-speed Internet is very much a rich-world privilege. To truly harness the power of information and communication technologies to create tomorrow's Knowledge Societies and meet the Millennium Development Goals, new approaches to driving broadband roll-out across economic barriers are urgently needed. This report looks at what broadband can bring, the state of deployment around the world, and innovative models that can help bring high-speed connectivity to the world's poorest communities.

Who:The report comes from the Broadband Commission for Digital Development, led by ITU and UNESCO: www.broadbandcommission.org

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