Bjarke will participiate in the seventh Infopoverty World Conference which is to take place the April 19-20 at different locations around the world, as the locations are linked together in videoconferences.

Bjarke will officially addresss the conference as member of the panel in the fifth and final session under the theme of “Broadband Satellite platforms for e-services and integrated terristical infrastructures”. Bjarke will take part in the conference from the UN headquarter in New York.

The conferences title is “Harnessing the use of ICTs towards the Millennium Development Goals”, indicating the extreme importance of informational technology in fighting poverty and to better the quality of life for people around the globe.

Bjarke will point out how the population in the rural districts of Djursland has been successfull in establish cheap broadband access to only 1/3 of the price which is paid in the big cities. The success has been possibly by the work of hundreds of voluntarys in the communitys, and DIIRWB will pass on the necessary knowledge on how to do this to people in marginalized rural areas in the industrialized world as well as the developing contries.

More on the conference at http://www.infopoverty.net/