| Author |
Date and source |
Quotes |
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| Doha
Briefing notes |
October
2001
Information Technology Products
Doha
Briefing notes
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" At the
beginning of this year, most of the world trade in information
technology products (worth $769 billion in 1999 for office and
telecom equipment, a large part of which are IT products) became
completely free of tariffs under the WTO Information Technology
Agreement (ITA). This agreement has been reducing customs duties
on IT products such as computers and telecom equipment since 1997,
and benefiting offices and consumers across the globe through
lower prices." |
| Director
of the Institute for Global Health, Richard G. A. Feachem |
1
September 2001
British Medical Journal, Vol 323, p 504-506
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" Technology and its diffusion are another piece of the
globalisation story with important implications for health. The
pace of technological change is exponential. Ninety per
cent of all scientists who have ever lived are alive
today. The human genome has been mapped more rapidly
than could have been imagined. The explosion of
information technology is making it far easier and far
cheaper to communicate globally. In 1930 a three minute
telephone call from New York to London cost over $300,
today it costs 30 cents."
Link to the full Article |
| Administrator of the UNDP, Mark Malloch Brown. |
10 July 2001
Agence France Press
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"
If IT
isn't taking off, it isn't necessarily that you don't have a
fibre-optic or telecommunications platform. It's much more
likely that you don't have enough tertiary educated people to
staff the sector. It is policy not charity that will
ultimately determine whether new technologies will become a
tool for human development everywhere. " |
|
Former U.S. Trade Representative,
Ambassador Charlene Barshefsky
|
13 April 2000
Speech at the Graduate School of International Economics
and Finance at Brandeis University
|
" In the WTO we also created a
permanent forum in which governments find new areas of shared
interest and benefit, which we used in the past five years to
reach […] agreements of central importance to the 21st
century economy:
- The Information Technology Agreement, eliminating tariffs on
$600 billion worth of trade in high-tech manufactured goods
such as computers, semiconductors, computer equipment,
integrated circuits and telecom equipment, and so
forth." |
| Former U.S. Trade
Representative, Ambassador Charlene Barshefsky |
13 April 2000
Speech at the Graduate School of International Economics
and Finance at Brandeis University
|
" In the WTO we also created a
permanent forum in which governments find new areas of shared
interest and benefit, which we used in the past five years to
reach […] agreements of central importance to the 21st
century economy[…] The WTO’s commitment in 1998 to
"duty-free cyberspace", helping to make sure
electronic commerce develops freely as a means to promote
trade, strengthen the power of consumers, and help the most
impoverished regions take advantage of world markets." |
| Mark
Bacchetta,Patrick Low, Aaditya Mattoo, Ludger Schuknecht,
Hannu Wager and Madelon Wehrens |
March 1998
" Le Commerce Electronique et le rôle de l'OMC"
|
"
Alors que les utilisateurs de l'Internet (ou
"Internautes") n'étaient que 4.5 millions en 1991,
certaines estimations indiquent qu'ils pourraient être 300
millions, voire d'avantage, à l'aube du siècle prochain.
Pour transmettre des informations, la technologie sur laquelle
repose l'Internet offre bien plus de souplesse que le
courrier, le téléphone ou le télécopieur. Cette
technologie va se répandre de plus en plus vite grâce aux
réductions de coûts résultant d'une évolution technique
permanente; celle-ci, favorisée par une amélioration de
l'éfficacité due à la concurrence, profitera très
largement au consommateur en lui offrant des prix moins
élevés et un plus vaste choix. Les technologies modernes de
communication ont un potentiel prodigieux, aussi bien en
matière d'éducation et de formation que pour diffuser les
connaissances et faciliter la compréhension, faire des
transactions commerciales ou s'adoner à toutes sortes de
loisirs. En termes de valeur, le commerce électronique a fait
un bond spectaculaire à partir d'un niveau pratiquement nul,
et devrait atteindre 300 milliards de dollars au cours de la
décennie qui nous fera changer de
siécle." |
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