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In Poland the European conference of EISCO prepares its contributions to the plan of action which will emerge from the Bilbao Summit

The fifth edition of EISCO, the European Information Society Conference, which on this occasion has been held from 2 to 4 June in Krakow (Poland), has established it contributions to the plan of action which will emerge from the forthcoming World Summit in Bilbao against the digital divide.

Josu Ocariz, General Secretary of the World Summit in Bilbao, presented the encounter in the Basque capital on the Inaugural Day of the event in Poland, which was organised by CEMR, the European arm of UCLG (United Cities and Local Governments). The institutions which are members of this association represent half of the world’s population.

Four hundred representatives of local authorities from thirty countries on the continent met in this Polish city. Poland was chosen for this encounter due to its recent incorporation into the European Union, whose regional institutions are working on the development of the i2010 (eEurope) programme. With this programme, the EU wants to ensure that within five years, all the states within its sphere of influence have achieved suitable development of Internet related technologies. This objective should be reached with the collaboration of the local authorities in each country, as the level of public administration closest to citizens.

Those attending EISCO decided on the contributions of the local institutions in Europe to the II World Summit of Cities and Local Authorities on the Information Society, the first appointment of the year in favour of digital solidarity throughout the entire planet. 2,000 representatives of regions and cities from all the continents will come together in the capital of Bizkaia to draw up a plan of action with an international scope. The fruit of these efforts will be that billions of persons all around the planet will be able to overcome the divide that prevents them from using information technologies, thereby condemning them to losing the social and economic benefits that these technologies create.