Innovative Businesses to be honoured at WSIS II
By Rebecca Wanjiku, Highway Africa News Agency (HANA)

YASMINE HAMMAMET, TUNISIA. June 24, 2004 Tunisian government has announced a
plan to honour innovative business enterprises during the second phase of
the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) scheduled
for November 2005.

Sadok Rabah minister of communication technologies and transport told more
than 400 delegates gathered for the WSIS preparatory committee that his
government plans to organise an international competition to honour the best
business enterprises in ICTs.

During the Geneva phase of the Summit (December 2003) organisations and
governments were honoured for the best e_content. While the WSIS award
organisers received about 800 applications from all over the world, African
representation was very low.

The low number of entries is blamed on a lack of proper and extensive
marketing as well as the ever present digital divide between countries of
the north and those of the south.

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