Nepal Telecommunications Authority (NTA) has delayed its plan of conducting a survey to find the status of the target set by the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS).
The World Summit on Information Society is a United Nations Conference led by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) –– a UN specialised agency. WSIS''s goal is to develop a global framework to deal with the challenges posed by the information society, said deputy director at NTA Min Prasad Aryal.
The country has to improve its performance in at least 10 indicators to meet the target given by World Summit on Information Society, said Aryal. The country should start the process of connecting villages to information and communication technology (ICT) and establish community access points, to connect universities, colleges, secondary schools, and primary schools with ICT and to also connect scientific and research centres with ICT by 2015, to meet the WSIS target, he added.