Global Alliance Bridges the Great Divide

摘要

The Global Alliance for Information and Communication Technologies and Development (GAID), borne from the United Nations' Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Task Force, has some ambitious plans regarding accessibility. Kofi Annan, then-UN Secretary-General, announced the organization in April 2006 as a multi-stakeholder agency, with involvement from the private sector, governments, academia, and civil society, and GAID currently boasts Craig Barrett, the chairman of Intel, as its chairman.