The Deputy Minister of Communications, Ms Dina Pule, will be one of the keynote speakers at the World Summit Award Winners’ conference, exhibition and gala, which will be held in Monterrey, Mexico from the 2 to 5 September 2009.
Deputy Minister Dina Pule is scheduled to participate in a panel discussion focussing on the theme ‘Bridging Digital Divides and Narrowing Content Gaps: Strategies and Challenges’, and deliver a keynote address on e-culture and heritage. She will also be one of the respondents selected to laud the winners under the theme ‘Celebrating the Richness and Diversity of the World’s best e-Content and Innovative Information Communication Technology Applications’.
The conference will be a unique opportunity and an invitation to observe the best examples of tackling the main challenges of the new information society, and also to personally meet those behind the best in the content industry, from e-learning to e-health and from e-entertainment to e-inclusion.
The conference and other events will be dedicated to innovation and creative use of information communication technologies (ICTs), which lack sustainable value if not driven by quality content. The conference, exhibition and gala are giving an empowering voice to the content creators. This theme stresses the point that using and working with technologies creatively can improve the lives of all citizens throughout the world.
The convenors labour the point that “creativity is not bound to being rich in terms of material goods, infrastructure and access to networks. It is a natural resource of the human mind everywhere in the world. Bridging the digital divide is therefore a matter of content.”
The World Summit Award, which will hold its events to promote the world’s best e-content, is being convened under the auspices of the government of Mexico, the United Nations’ Global Alliance for ICT and Development Global Forum, Indigo Brainmedia, and several other business and government partners.
One of the highlights would be to confer awards on 40 winning teams who excelled in eight different categories in multimedia and e-content creation. The winners teams were selected from about 20 000 applications from all over the world.
For further information, please contact:
Fuad Hendricks
Cell: 082 478 2988
E-mail: fuad@doc.gov.za
Source: Ministry of Communications
