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Convening of the Second Meeting of the Digital Opportunity Taskforce (DOT Force)

23 February 2001

  1. The Second Meeting of the Digital Opportunity Taskforce (DOT Force), the establishment of which was decided at the G8 Kyushu-Okinawa Summit 2000, will be held on 1 and 2 March 2001 in Cape Town in the Republic of South Africa (Chair: Italy). This meeting will follow up on developments since the inaugural meeting of the dot force that was convened in November 2000 in Tokyo.
  2. The dot force membership comprises the G8 (government, business, and non-profit organizations (NPOs)); developing countries (South Africa, Arab Republic of Egypt, United Republic of Tanzania, Republic of Senegal, Republic of India, Republic of Indonesia, Republic of Bolivia, Federal Republic of Brazil and People's Republic of China); international organizations (the World Bank, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) (these two organizations are acting as a secretariat for the dot force), International Telecommunications Union (ITU), the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations (ECOSOC), United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD); and business groupings (the World Economic Forum (WEF), Global Business Dialogue on Electronic Commerce (GBDe), and Global Information Infrastructure Commission (GIIC). Japanese participants at the second meeting will be representatives from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Deputy Director-General of the Economic Affairs Bureau, Kaoru Ishikawa), Toshiba Corp., and the Center for Global Communications of the International University of Japan.
  3. The mandate of the dot force is to engage in debate among specialists, promote policy dialogue and review recommendations from the private sector, aiming at bridging the international digital divide, and prior to the G8 Genoa Summit, the taskforce will report to the personal representatives of the G8 leaders. At the next meeting in South Africa a draft report will be debated and it is expected that a final report will be adopted at the third meeting of the DOT Force to be held in Italy at the end of April.
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