ADVISORY/Experts Address Opportunities Posed by Spread of Digital Technologies.Assignment Editors ADVISORY...for Monday - Wednesday (Oct. 16 - Oct. 18) --(BUSINESS WIRE) WHAT: Creating Digital Dividends Conference: Applying Digital Technology for Sustainable Development Sustainable development is a socio-ecological process characterized by the fulfilment of human needs while maintaining the quality of the natural environment indefinitely. The linkage between environment and development was globally recognized in 1980, when the International Union Organized by the World Resources Institute Founded in 1982, the World Resources Institute (WRI) is an environmental think tank based in Washington, D.C. WRI is an independent, non-partisan and nonprofit organization with a staff of more than 100 scientists, economists, policy experts, business analysts, statistical (WRI WRI Wolfram Research, Inc. (makers of Mathematica) WRI World Resources Institute WRI War Resisters' International WRI Western Research Institute (Laramie, WY) WRI Water Research Institute ) and William D. Ruckelshaus, WRI chairman WHEN: Monday, Oct. 16, 2000 to Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2000 WHERE: Bell Harbor Conference Center, Seattle, Washington  This page is protected from moves until disputes have been resolved on the .The reason for its protection is listed on the protection policy page. , USA WHO: Confirmed speakers and panelists include: Jeff Bezos chief executive officer, Amazon.com Tobey Corey, chief executive officer, i-Generation Vint Cerf, senior vice president, MCIWorldcom Carlene Ellis, vice president, INTEL Jose Maria Figueres, past president, Costa Rica Carly Fiorina, chief executive officer, Hewlett-Packard Rob Glaser, chief executive officer, RealNetworks Don Listwin, executive vice president, Cisco Systems William O'Shea, senior vice president, Lucent Technologies Alex Pentland, academic head, MIT Media Lab This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. Iqbal Quadir, founder, GrameenPhone and chairman, Globekids Stephan Schmidheiny, chairman, Anova, Unotec and Nueva WHY: There are more telephones in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. than in all of rural Asia. There are more Internet accounts in London than all of Africa. Eighty percent of the world's population has never even made a phone call. Such is the digital divide between those with access to digital technologies and those without. With much of the world's economic growth now driven by information and telecommunications technology, this digital divide could have serious social consequences. But with digital networks spreading at an unprecedented speed, there is also an enormous opportunity to connect every village and family on Earth. The potential dividends include providing billions of people with access to educational and health services health services Managed care The benefits covered under a health contract , boosting incomes and stimulating economic opportunity, and creating the tools to manage natural resources more sustainably. For more information visit the World Resources Institute's Website at http://www.wri.org/wri/ or the Digital Dividend Conference Website at http://www.digitaldividend.org/ |
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