Cities and regions setting up channels for direct cooperation at Bilbao e-solidarity World Summit
The 2nd World Summit of Cities and Local Authorities on the Information Society is in full swing with more than 2,000 mayors and local leaders from five continents making their contributions to bridging the digital divide. These efforts will lead to the drafting of a plan of action to be forwarded to the heads of state, who will shortly be assembling in Tunis for another world summit on the Information Society. The mayors of Bilbao and Tunis, the two cities upon whom the eyes of the global IT industry are fixed this month, today exchanged their experiences in digital solidarity at one of the many meetings that local leaders from all over the world will hold over the next few days at the Summit. Iñaki Azkuna, the Mayor of Bilbao, and Abbés Mohsen, his counterpart in Tunis, both agreed that the cities and regions must search for ways of cooperating directly, without intermediaries, to wage a more effective fight against the digital divide, which is preventing billions of people around the world from accessing the information technologies.
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