BASIS

ICC BASIS Chair Ilham Habibie’s opening remarks, Istanbul 2-5 September 2014

Ministerial title: ‘Capacity Building for Economic Development’

ICC BASIS to use 9th UN-linked Internet Governance Forum to champion far-reaching, all-inclusive debate as the best model for maintaining an open Internet.

ICC has announced the appointment of Ilham Habibie, President Director of Indonesian company Ilthabi Rekatama, as the new Chair of the ICC initiative Business Action to Support the Information Society (BASIS).

WSIS +10 High-Level Event 10 June 2014, Geneva

ICC BASIS (Business Action to Support the Information Society) has urged for renewed efforts to both reflect on progress, and prompt action, in advancing an Information Society based on an inclusive Internet.

25 October 2013 - Closing address by Virat Bhatia, ICC BASIS representative for the business community at the IGF.

ICC today announced that greater efforts to bring about better, more consultative global policy-making are needed to maximise the potential of the Internet to power future economic growth.

Speaking at the WSIS 2013 action lines Forum in Geneva this month, Subramanian Ramadorai, Chair of ICC Business Action to Support the Information Society (BASIS) initiative and Vice-Chairman of Tata Consultancy Services, highlighted the urgency for achieving greater participation from small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Internet policy discussion and in the formation of a sustainable information society.

Mr S. Ramadorai, BASIS Chair Firstly, thank you for this opportunity to speak on behalf of ICC’s BASIS‐ initiative members at this year’s Forum. Our special thanks to the ITU Secretary‐General Hamadoun Touré, as well as the other WSIS Action Line facilitators ‐UNCTAD, UNDP and UNESCO. I would also like to acknowledge the participation of […]