The Computer Society of Kenya

Since 1986

Montreal, Canada, October 2012
The Montreal Declaration
enabling access for all

WITSA is pleased to see that most of the world’s governments, businesses, society and citizens are now aware of, and recognize, the significant transformational impact of ICT and other digital technologies.  These transformations are unrelenting, and accelerating such that in many, many different and significant ways, creative application of these technologies is improving lives and societies, health and education, solving formerly impossible problems, informing, empowering and enabling humankind wherever there is access.

In 2011, at its Global Public Policy Summit (Guadalajara, Mexico), WITSA released its policy actions document which explains how information and digital technologies can enable and support sustainable economic growth; how they can be used to make public services more effective and efficient; that information and its infrastructure needs to be protected; and how all nations and their citizens will benefit from public policies that create and encourage the development of thriving digital technology industries.

All this depends on the foundation layer – Internet access – enabled through open, light and transparent governance, and investment in infrastructure and connectivity, encouraged by a competitive and supportive business environment.

WITSA commits to work with all governments, stakeholder organizations and business leaders to develop ways and means for these technologies, their application and benefits to be available to all. WITSA will support its members to collaborate and fund innovative projects that enable and improve access.

At the 18th WCIT in Montreal, representatives from 62 nations gather and declare to develop and support initiatives to enable access to all the world’s people to the open, neutral communications platform that is the Internet, so that everyone can participate and receive its benefits, and thus fulfill the promise of the Digital Age.

WITSA's Montreal Declaration is its fourth, drawn from its program of annual summits and congresses and builds on the 2009 Bermuda Declaration , the 2010 Amsterdam Declaration , and the 2011 Guadalajara Declaration.

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