But government representatives and members of the private and civil sector, who met for almost two weeks in Geneva to compile an action plan for the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), said much discussion remained before universal access to communication became a reality.
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The draft action plan pledged to connect villages worldwide to information and communication technologies (ICTs) -- some 1.5 million villages in the world are without access to a simple telephone -- without offering a timeframe.
It also envisaged getting public institutes such as schools, research centres, libraries and hospitals better connected as well as making governments more interactive.
The plan also aimed "to ensure that more than half the world's inhabitants have access to ICTs within their reach."
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