Information and communications technology in the Caribbean: stocktaking report

At the twentieth session of the Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee (CDCC), the Secretariat made a presentation on the Caribbean Information Society, focusing in particular on the challenges associated with the implementation of the Plan of Action agreed to at the first session of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) which convened in Geneva in December 2003. That presentation to the CDCC highlighted areas earmarked by the WSIS for government intervention, as a means of accelerating the transition to an information society.

Following this presentation and the discussion which ensued, a resolution was submitted by the Delegation of Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic and endorsed by the other delegations, requesting the Secretariat (ECLAC) to continue to provide such extra-budgetary support as was needed to undertake important activities in the Caribbean, including the implementation of a project designed to implement the WSIS plan of action in the Caribbean, entitled, "World Summit on the Information Society - supporting the transition".