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Sj163.cn 作者：未知 来源：昂立 热度：℃ 时间：2005-7-24 14:45:00 |
突飞猛进
生产方式
生活方式
信息化
数字机遇
数字鸿沟
信息社会世界峰会
筹备会
基础设施
结构调整
升级换代
宽带高速信息网
全方位，多层次
网络安全
病毒侵害
网络犯罪
可持续发展
互利合作
注重实效
成果分享
技术转让
进入新世界，经济全球化不断发展，科学技术突飞猛进， 为全球经济和社会发展提供了前所未有的物质技术条件。 尤其是信息通信技术的发展，深刻的改变着人们的生产方式和生活方式。信息化为人类提供了难得的数字机遇，同时也给我们带来了各种挑战。世界各国都在积极采取措施，罅Ψ⒄剐畔⑼ㄐ偶际鹾托畔⒉担ν平倚畔⒒獭?BR>
然而我们看到，世界范围内信息通信技术发展极为不平衡，贫富国家享有和利用信息资源和技术的差距不是在缩小，而是在扩大，广大法章钟国家处于十分不利的地位，这必然导致南北贫富差距进一步拉大。如何缩小直至消除数字鸿沟，是建设信息社会过程中急需解决的重大问题。
在这种情况下，国际社会决定召开信息社会世界峰会，讨论解决有关建设信息社会的问题是正确的，必要的。
一． 信息基础设施是建设信息社会的物质基础。未来的信息基础设施应能满足人们对智能化，多样化，个性化，多媒体化，全球化发展的要求。峰会及筹备工作应切实研究加快信息通信技术广泛应用的政策措施，推进网络的结构调整和升级换代，使其逐步演进成为一个融语言，数据，图像为一体的宽带高速信息网，全方位，多层次的满足多种业务需求。
二． 信息通信与网络安全意义重大，没受各国政府高度关注。信息通信与网络安全涉及到技术，法律法规和世界范围的合作。峰会和筹备工作应考虑在世界范围的合作。峰会和筹备工作应考虑在世界范围内成立相应机构和体系确保通信和网络的安全可靠，严防病毒侵害，打击网络犯罪，同时研究，开发和利用新进的安全技术，确保网络上传输得信息的受到保护，并通过法律法规手段，加强对网络安全的监管，保护通信和网络安全。
三． 要高度重视知识和人才问题。在未来信息社会中，知识和技能是促进经济发展的主要驱动力，是信息产业实现可持续发展的重要因素之一。广大发展中国家知识和人才短缺是造成其在信息技术方面落后于发达国家的主要原因之一，也是解决数字鸿沟应重点考虑的一个环节。
四． 消除数字鸿沟需要世界各国共同努力。 特别是发达国家，应切实负起责任，在互利合作，注重实效，成果共享，促进发展的基础上采取世界行动，在资金支持，技术转让，人才培训等方面给与发展中国家以积极有效的帮助，为缩小数字鸿沟多做实事，帮助发展中国家加快信息化进程。
e-envoys
Downing Street
nano-technology
spin-offs
break new ground in
a knowledge-driven economy
value added products
government services
paper based
GP
ICT
the criminal justice system
videoconferencing
I would like to begin by welcoming everybody but particularly the e-envoys from the many different countries who have been kind enough to join us today. You are very welcome to the UK and I hope that you find your trip worthwhile—we are certainly grateful for your contributions to this debate.
I consider the question of how we harness the potential of technological change—alongside the related question of science, to be the fundamental economic and social challenge of our future. What we do with information technology and how we use it, will determine our success industrially and as a society for years to come.
I see a very clear link here bet5ween British science, the development of British universities and the technological revolution. A couple of weeks ago, I had a presentation at Downing Street from some of our leading scientists. It covered fields such as nano-technology, brain transmitters and the latest in IT. The potential in all cases was immense, for industrial production, medicine and communications. The connection between top quality scientific research and business spin-offs and development was obvious. And in the end, of course, it is business managers or public service reformers that will apply the technology in new ways.
The point I am making is this. Part of winning this IT battle for the future is to create a culture in which the worlds of education, academia, science, technology and business are engaged in a perpetual conversation and exchange of views. A conversation in which we are breaking new ground in scientific and technological advance, in which our schools and universities feel comfortable with its potential; in which business and society are naturally looking for ways of applying the advances made.
There are now 600 million people online. Worldwide 140,000 more people connect to the net every day. In the last three decades the price of a transatlantic phone call has fallen to a small fraction of its original level. In the same period, just as Intel’s Gordon Moore predicted, computing power has doubled every eighteen months to two years. A 3G handset, soon to be on sale in every high street in the UK, has around 20,000 times more computing power than the Apollo 11 spacecraft.
Recently, we witnessed an incredible moment when scientists at MIT in the US and UCL in London teamed up to pull off the first transatlantic virtual handshake. Using second generation internet technology, they recreated the sense of touch over a 3000 mile distance—a remarkable development that could have applications for areas as diverse as medicine and design.
The fundamental challenge is to create a knowledge-driven economy that serves our long-term goal of first-class public services and economic prosperity for all. To do so we need to innovate. We need to use ideas and intelligence in new ways that create higher value added products and better quality services. The opportunity to develop the knowledge driven economy is vastly increased by the digital age. Our ability to find and use information, to share ideas across geographic boundaries, is enhanced immensely by the revolution in communications and computing.
And we most extend the opportunities of the information age to all. The networks of the digital age will be more powerful and more productive as the number of people and businesses connected increases. Digital transformation cannot be restricted to the few. Our success depends on extending it to the many.
That is why we aim to have all government services on-line by 2005, building on best practice such as NHS Direct On-line and the university admissions services. 54% of government services are already online and we expect that figure to rise to around 75% by the end of this year. But we recognize that British businesses and citizens are not yet using government services online in the numbers that match the best in the world.
This not only replaces the cumbersome and inefficient paper based approach, but will make it possible for an ambulance crew arriving at the scene of an accident to check a patient’s electronic health record through a handheld mobile device. It will be possible for a GP to email a prescription directly to a pharmacist who in turn will email the patient to let them know it’s ready to pick up. And we could eliminate up to 600 million pieces of paper a year and make a GP’s handwriting legible for the first time in history!
And we will be investing in ICT infrastructure throughout the criminal justice system. We are building a future where victims of violent crime can participate in a trial remotely through videoconferencing. We witnesses and police officers will not have to wait around in court for days at a time until they are called to give evidence, but are called by text message or pager.
I end where I began. This is the transforming technology of our age. Its potential is still hugely under-exploited—its capability to transform our businesses, public services and societies immense. It is the key long-term economic and social challenge. My purpose in addressing you today is to say this Government is absolutely determined to meet the challenge and set our nation on a course to succeed. I ask for your help in doing so.
In the new century, the ongoing economic globalization and rapid advancements of science and technology have created unprecedented material and technological conditions for global economic and social development. In particular, the development of information and communication technologies has been changing profoundly our mode of production and way of life. Informatization presents valuable “digital opportunities” for human progress. But it also presents various challenges to us. Many countries are taking active measures to vigorously push the development of infocom technologies and the information industry in an effort to accelerate national informatization processes.
However, the infocom development worldwide is seriously unbalanced. The gap between the rich and the poor in enjoying the benefits of and utilizing information resources and information technologies is widening instead of narrowing, putting the developing countries in a more disadvantageous position. This will inevitably further aggravate the social and economic disparity between the North and the South. Narrowing and ultimately eliminating the “digital divide’ is a major issue to be addressed in the process of building the information society.
Against this backdrop, the international community decided to convene a World Summit on the Information Society, to discuss and find solutions to issues concerning the development of the information society. Such a decision is absolutely right and necessary.
Firstly, information infrastructure is the physical foundation of the information society. Future information infrastructure should satisfy our demand for intelligence, diversification, personalization, multimedia and globalization. During the Summit and the preparation process, we should work in practical terms on policies and measures that accelerate the application of infocom technologies, promote the architecture readjustments of network and its upgrading, facilitate the evolution to high-speed broadband information networks that integrate voice, data and image and satisfy various service requirements in an all-round manner.
Secondly, security is vital to infocom network, about which governments the world over have shown greater concerns. Security of infocom networks involves technologies as well as laws and regulations and requires international cooperation. During the Summit and its preparation process, the following should be taken into account: establishing international organizations and mechanisms that ensure the security and reliability of communication networks by fighting against viruses and cyber crimes; promoting research, development and application of leading-edge security technologies so as to build secure communication networks and protect on-line information; strengthening control of network security and protection of communications networks through application of laws and regulations.
Thirdly, we need to highly emphasize the importance of knowledge and human resources. In the future information society, knowledge and skills will be a major driver for economic growth and one of the major contributors to the sustainable development of the information industry. One of the main reasons for the gap between developing and developed countries in information technologies is the lack of knowledge and human resources, which is a key issue to be considered in bridging the ‘digital divide.”
Fourthly, bridging the “digital divide’ requires joint efforts of all countries around the world. Developed countries in particular shall truly shoulder their responsibilities in helping the developing countries accelerate their informatization processes and narrowing the “digital divide”. Concrete actions shall be taken, one the basis of the principles of mutually beneficial cooperation, effective3ness, achievement sharing and promoting growth, to offer active and effective assistance to developing countries in the form of financial support, technology transfer and human resources training, etc.
首先对今天各位，特别是来自不同国家的信息特使欣然与会表示欢迎。联合王国欢迎你们。我希望你们不虚此行，对你们在冷言冷语化中发表的真知灼见我们当然也感激不尽。
我认为，如何开发技术变革潜力的问题，连同相关的科学的问题，也就是我们未来经济、社会挑战的根本问题。我们对信息技术的处理和利用将决定着未来岁月中工业及整个社会的成败。
我认为，英国的科学发展、英国大学的发展与技术革命有直接的关系。几周前，我在唐宁街听取几位顶尖科学家的报告。报告的内容涉及诸如纳米技术、大脑传输技术以及IT业的最新动态。这些领域对于工业生产、医药和通讯有着巨大的潜在价值。高质量的科学研究与商业的副产品及其开发之间的联系显而易见。当然，最终还是将由商界的经理或是公共服务业的改革者们来以崭新的方式应用技术。
我在此想指出的是，打赢未来信息战的关键部分在于构建一种文化，使得教育、学术、科学技术以及商业界能够共同参与长久的对话和交流。在此种对话中间，我们可以在科学技术的发展中不断创新，大中学校则可得益其潜在效益，商界及社会可自然地寻找开发利用这些新发展的途径。
全球现有6亿人在线，还有14万人每天都与网络相连。在过去的三十年中，跨越大西洋电话的价格已降为原来价格的零头。而与此同时，正如英特尔的戈登。摩尔预测，电脑的运算能力每18月到每两年便提高一倍。即将在英国各大街道出售的第三代手机的运算能力比阿波罗11号宇宙飞船还要强出两万倍。
最近，我们见证了一个令人难以置信的时刻。美国的麻省理工学院（MIT）和伦敦的伦郭大学学院（UCL）合作实现了首次跨越大西洋的虚拟握手。他们使用第二代因特网技术在距离超过3千英里之遥再现了触觉。这是一项可能会应用于包插医药、设计在内广泛的领域的非凡的成就。
我们所面对的根本的挑战在于构建一个服务于我们建立一流公共服务体系和实现共同富裕这些长远目标的知识经济。为此，我们必须革新，必须以新的方式利用观念和智能，来产出具有更高附加值的产品，提供更高质量的服务。发展知识经济的机遇由于数字时代的到来而大大地增加了。我们搜寻和使用信息、跨地域交流思想的能力则因通讯和计算方面的革命而得到极大的提高。
我们要让信息时代所赋予的机遇人人得以分享，因为随着相互连接的人和企业数量增加，数字时代的网络也将更加强大、兴旺。数字变革不能局限于少数人。我们的成功在于将其推向大众。
故此，我们的目标是在吸取诸如国民医疗服务直接在线、大学录取服务最佳做法经验的基础上。于2005年之前实现政务网络化。目前已有５４％的政务实现了网络化，预计到本年底将升至７５％。但我们承认英国企业和个人使用网络政务服务的数量现仍不能与世界上最好的国家相提并论。
网络化不仅可取代基于纸张繁重而低效的办事方法，它还使赶到现场的救护人员能够通过手持移动装置调阅患者的电子病例。而一位全科医生也可将处方直接用电子邮件发给药剂师，随后由药剂师用同样的方式通知去取药。这样，一年便可省掉6亿张纸，而医生处方的笔迹将有史以来第一次变得清晰可辩！
我们将在整个刑事司法系统中投资构建信息通讯技术的基础设施。我们正在打造这样的未来；暴力犯罪的受害者可通过视频会议系统远程出席审判。而证人和警官则不必每次开庭时候庭数日直至被宣上庭――他们只需以电子讯息或寻呼机通知即可。
让我以开头的话来作为结束语吧。技术在改变我们这个时代。而技术的潜力仍有待大力开发―――－其改变我们的企业、公共服务以及社会的能量巨大。它正是我们所面临的经济、社会方面的主要的、长期的挑战。我今天演讲的目的便是要说：政府将坚决迎接挑战，以使我国迈上成功之路。在此，我恳请你们给帮助。
