Welcome to the Connected Rural Communities Forum!
It is our hope that this forum shall be an opportunity
for the members to have an online informal dialogue and discussion on various
issues regarding the use of information and communications technologies in
building the capacities of our rural communities in APEC. The APEC Seminar held
in Tokyo, Japan in March 2008 brought forward several questions and
propositions that need to be threshed out by the member economies.
The views and insights shared in this message board will
not be deemed as official and binding statements by members of APEC economies
but as the opinions and inputs of the individuals themselves. Rather, as we
explore the topics further, it is our vision that these will create avenues for
future collaborations among the forum members and perhaps, even within APEC.
The discussion questions were divided based on the
Seminar themes on leadership and policy framework, public-private partnerships,
and sustainability and scalability. Just click on the discussion topic in which
you would want to contribute in and you can now join the forum.
We hope that we shall have more various discussions in
the future.
Thank you!