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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8135

24 January 2002
Contents Publication in full By article 18 / 46
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/development
Commission wants to promote information and communication technologies to combat poverty

Brussels, 23/01/2002 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission intends more actively promoting the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) as instrument to combat poverty, main objective assigned to the new European policy for development co-operation with poor countries.

The communication, which the College adopted on Wednesday, on the "role of information and communication technologies in the Community's development policy", stresses that ICT potentially offers...

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