Broadband: A Platform for Progress - A Report by the Broadband Commission for Digital Development

The Broadband Commission for Digital Development, launched in May 2010 by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), comprises government leaders from around the world, and the highest-level representatives of relevant industries, international agencies, and organizations concerned with development.

Ahead of the UN Millennium Development Goals Summit, held in New York in September 2010, the Broadband Commission presented to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon “A 2010 Declaration of Broadband Inclusion for All,” as well as Recommendations and a Plan of Action, in a report entitled “A 2010 Leadership Imperative: Towards a Future Built on Broadband”

A living resource for broadband development

This report is the second outcome to be issued by the Broadband Commission in support of its recommendations. It offers more detailed examples, evidence, technical choices and strategies for extending broadband networks within the reach of all.

“Broadband: a Platform for Progress” is also designed to be the introduction to an evolving collection of resources in the form of an online database to carry forward the work of the Broadband Commission. This repository will carry the outcome reports of the Broadband Commission, as well as numerous research reports, case studies from both developed and developing countries, and other materials to encourage and inform governments and industry — and individual communities themselves — on why broadband is crucially important in today’s world and about ways to get
connected.

The Broadband Commission’s repository of information can be visited at:

• www.broadbandcommission.org/sharehouse

Author : ITU

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