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Bilbao presents the 2nd World Summit of Cities and Local Authorities on the Information Society a year before it is due to be held

A congress on e-business brought forward the meeting which will bring together over two thousand participants from four continents in November 2005, in the fight against the “digital divide.”

The 2nd World Summit of Cities and Local Authorities on the Information Society was announced in Bilbao last November, a year before it is due to be held in the same month in 2005. This meeting against the “digital divide,” with the participation of over two thousand people from four continents, was publicised in the 3rd E-Business Global Conference held last November in the Bizkaia capital, attended by around 500 participants. The congress on e-business was inaugurated by the Basque President Juan José Ibarretxe, who stressed that Euskadi occupies top ranking in Spain as regards Internet connections, by percentage of Basque Internet users out of the total population of the Autonomous Region. The IT4ALL network played a leading role in one of the E-Business Global Conference sessions, as well as experiences in development of Internet use among the population of the European regions of Tampere and North Karelai (Finland) and Blekinge (Sweden). The Basque Development Agency (SPRI - Sociedad para la Promoción y Reconversión Industrial) was one of the promoters of the meeting, in which around twenty analysts put forward their theories.