(b) Access to technology

UNOSAT is working at developing satellite based communications including Internet access to further facilitate community level access to technology.

Why is it that Nelson has access to a cutting edge technology, like the cellphone, but doesn't have access to a 100 year old technology for generating electric light in the home?

International support assistance could improve access of developing countries to information technology.

Guarantee access to the available information and information technology for the whole public

Facilitating access by affected country Parties to appropriate technology, knowledge and know how

C. Knowledge networks through information and communication technology access points for disadvantaged communities

Furthermore, capacity building and access to technology and knowledge was essential for developing countries, especially the transfer of information and communication technology.

Another important consideration in this respect is access to and transfers of appropriate technology.

Recognizing that information and communications technology could contribute to the empowerment of women, the Malaysian Government and taken steps to improve women's access to such technology.

(e) Ensuring equal access of women to productive assets and resources, including land, credit and technology

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As an instrument of participation and inclusion, access to information and communication technology should be highlighted.

Increasing access to space technology for such uses could be promoted through appropriate international coordination and cooperation.

Reducing vulnerability requires not only having access to technology, but also having the mechanisms, expertise and other resources that are needed to make the technology useable and sustainable.

Additional constraints include lack of access to capital, limited alternative employment opportunities and a lack of appropriate technology.

The rules of international trade and finance and technology access are weighted against the poor and the weak.

(iii) Access by affected country Parties, particularly affected developing country Parties, to appropriate technology, knowledge and know how.

A broad and affordable communications network can facilitate technology applications such as e commerce, information access and remote education.

Internationalization can help in this process by improving competitiveness through, for example, access to finance, technology and know how.

(e) Increase the access of girls and women to education and training on science and technology, including on ICT

In order to ensure the sustainability of their activities, they needed help, in particular where value chains were affected by market failures concerning access to markets, technology, finance, and information technology.

(iv) The facilitation, as appropriate, of access by the developing countries to advanced communication technology available on the open market

(iv) The facilitation, as appropriate, of access by the developing countries to advanced communication technology available on the open market

We live longer. We have access to technology that would have seemed like science fiction just a few years ago.

Moreover, such FDI per se is unlikely to help a parent company expand in foreign markets or access new technology.

Specific policy measures should guarantee access by the marginalized to assets and opportunities particularly to education, land, capital and technology.

Some powerful States practise a discriminatory approach against access by NPT States parties to material, equipment, and peaceful nuclear technology.

The barriers they face include the lack of investment and technology promotion policies, inappropriate legal and regulatory frameworks, inadequate capabilities for investment promotion and technology support institutions as well as the lack of access to potential investors and sources of new technology.

By investing abroad firms may gain access to foreign markets and technology, improve their efficiency and enhance their firm specific advantages.

Such investment provides a package of resources, including capital, knowledge and technology, as well as employment opportunities and access to markets.

The development of such technology should take account of the need to guarantee people more democratic access to knowledge and information.

The LLIN technology has been transferred to Africa (currently Tanzania), as part of strategy to facilitate local production and increase access.

Access to technology is also an important motive for these high tech manufacturing SINTNCs to venture into Europe and North America.

Mr. Ngomuo (Information Technology Services Division, Office of Central Support Services) said that, currently, there were six access levels to ODS.

In the manufacturing industry, some leading technology driven SINTNCs such as Creative Technology (PC sound cards), Aztech Systems (ADSL products) and Singapore Technologies Engineering have benefited enormously from their operations in the United States, which allow them to gain access to cutting edge technology.

However the spread of education, easier access to information technology and economic pressures are bringing about a change in this respect also.

Mr. Markus Lehmann, Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) stressed that, under the CBD, access to genetic resources can be granted in exchange for access to, and transfer of, technology that makes use of those genetic resources.

Because one of the poorest farmers on Earth had gotten access to a technology that had allowed him to change his own life.

The representative of Cuba emphasized the importance, for promoting entrepreneurial activity and reducing poverty in LDCs, of access to information and communication technology.

The decline in per capita food production in developing countries would continue unless better access to land, capital, credit, training and technology was provided.

For a developing country such as Kenya, access to nuclear technology was vital and must be made available in a guaranteed and predictable manner.

Such arrangements should not impose restrictions on access to material, equipment and technology for peaceful purposes required by developing countries for their sustainable development.

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs), customarily considered the engine of economic growth in the developing countries, find it difficult to attract investors and access technology.

Marginalization resulting from the lack of access to new communications technology and high quality universal education were only a few of the issues repeatedly raised.