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Panel 1 National ICT Policies and Strategies for Achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) recommends:
• the coordination of telecommunication policies (i.e. regulation, universal access) with social policies to evaluate the stage of the value chain where subsidies apply.
• developing content and applications in mobile telephony
• channeling universal access funds towards infrastructure and capacity-building
• and developing new minimum access service baskets, and improved monitoring of ICT progress, with measurements of network coverage, access, and spending.

Panel 2 on Technology for the Poor: ICT Innovation for Poverty Eradication recommends:
• providing content, introducing performance standards for students and educators,
• expanding educational websites to incorporate ICT,
• developing policies and monitoring systems for new models of learning.
• basing future eLAC goals on a development perspective that seeks profound social and educational transformations.

Panel 3 on How to Develop e-Government Applications in order to Enhance Citizens’ Participation and Promote Accountability, Transparency and Efficiency in Governance Processes recommends:
• moving towards greater interoperability in the region, so as to take advantage of economies of scale
• involving local governments in national strategies, as they are closer to their citizens.

Panel 4 on Multi-stakeholder Frameworks for Developing Effective Policies and Partnerships for Mainstreaming ICT called for:
• more support for private-sector innovation in order to capitalize on the potential of alliances which should allow the development of technologies and solutions to diminish poverty and demonstrate social responsibility

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