Zahra Maranlou

Although this is a known approach that knowledge, information and communication are as the tools for development, the world summit on Information Society through the emphasizing on the Millennium Development Goals (a set of logical and time -bound targets include halving income poverty and hunger, achieving universal primary education, gender equality, reducing under- five mortality by two -thirds and maternal mortality by three -quarters, reversing the spread of HIV /AIDS, ensuring environmental satiability and developing a global partnership for development) could recall the common resolve that ICTs are not only technologies, but also the main instruments for human based development.

Regarding the important question that: what is the next program? I think developing a common discourse of ICTs for human based development among different stockholders and between north and south countries can lead global society to make available the benefits of information and communication technologies for all people around the world in order to promote human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the right to development.

Empowering and capacity building of people in different sectors (government,

privet sector and civil society) can help them to reach a common understanding for solving the development challenges by use of Digital Opportunities. Developing partnership mechanisms especially in south countries are essential for re-iterating the global commitment to recognize the development challenges posed by the digital divide. On the other hand although the participatory development in information society is emphasizing on the involvement of the stockholders and social groups, we have no choice but to pay more attention to some of the social groups. The situation of youth is much more different in Information Society. Most of the ICT users, creators of ICT and future leaders are youth. The other important point is that as far as young people have been growing up in information society, they achieved very different experience by ITC which can be called "digital experience".

More special attention to empowering youth in Information Society is one of the logical effects of young people's different situations in ITC.

Let's making better world for all by sharing the benefits of ICTs in local, national, regional and international level through the recognizing the right to development of people, empowering them in ICTs and advocating the discourse that: ICTs for human based development.